Cable Cutters

What's up wuth that? It's not sonething I do a lot of, nowadays, and the cut is very good. The inner and the outer can also easily be made "square ended".

Yup. A good test of your work, too, when soldering up motorcycle front brake cables...

That's great! I have found, unfortunately, that many made-up cables don't have proper nipples, they're just moulded barrels of white metal which splash off when you warm them.

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I've used one which happened to have a diamond disc in it to cut brake cables - does it a treat.

At its simplest...

You need a cold chisel, a steel plate at least half an inch thick, heavy hammer and a grind stone.

Cut both components and touch the ends onto the grindstone. Works every time for me :-)

Dave

Why not? It's even better than a bench grinder as cable ends can be cut in situ.

Any burring on brake outers can be removed with an HSS drill bit.

cheers, Pete.

Pete C typed

Cos I don't have an angle grinder...

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You're just not trying hard enough, Helen. Even Fran's got an angle grinder. A bigger one that mine, I might point out.