Cycling Equipment · Public discussion

inner brake cable problem

Started by davidbaston · · Last activity · 3 posts · 562 views

Thread details

What we know about this thread

Original section
Cycling Equipment
Published
1 August 2004
Last activity
1 August 2004
Original author
davidbaston
Posts
3
Discussion status
Public discussion
Total views
562
Views / 30 days
0

The navigation and discussion metadata provide context. Posts remain in their original chronological order.

Showing posts 1–3 of 3
Posts remain in their original chronological order.

Text size
  1. dear all

    can anybody out there tell me what to cut the inner wire brake cable with as when i do it with my wire cutters the damm this just splays out and goes messy at the end when cut is there a special cutter i should have ???

    cheers

    david baston

  2. A special tool is needed to cut through those steel cables. I have the Park tool. Works great.

    http://www.parktool.com/tools/CN_10.shtml

  3. davidbaston said:

    dear all

    can anybody out there tell me what to cut the inner wire brake cable with as when i do it with my wire cutters the damm this just splays out and goes messy at the end when cut is there a special cutter i should have ???

    cheers

    david baston

    You can use a Dremel tool with a cut off wheel. It will cut the cable and the housing and leave it very neat because it doesn't work by crushing the cable.

    TD

Active in the last 60 minutes

Active in this thread

0 users · 0 guests ·0 bots ·0 total

No signed-in users are active right now.

No known search crawlers active right now.