Soldering Cable Ends

Lou Holtman said:

You call that a torch? It's like soldering with a candle.

Lou
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Lou, is it possible for you to direct a constructive comment my
direction?

-nate

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>On 27 Mar 2006 09:17:15 -0800, "Llatikcuf" <[email hidden]>

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>>spin156 wrote:
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>>>john wrote:
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>>>>Nate L wrote:
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>>>>>(It's the right temperature when it gets that silvery/white

sparkle to it.)

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>>>>You mean the flux, when you say silvery/white sparkle, not the

metal,

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>>>>don't you?
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>>>>Also in an earlier post you mentioned a $2 torch. Where does one

find a

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>>>>$2 torch? Hell, I'd be happy to settle for $5. I know you are not

going

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>>>>to say "WallyWorld" :-) I bought a lighter for sizing the ends of

nylon

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>>>>cord & it was over a buck.
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>>>>Thanks again for all the info, John
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>>>I don't know about $2, but I found a couple of different butane

torches

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>>>in the tool section at Home Depot for less than $10. I got one

for

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>>>$7.95 and it's refillable with standard butane canisters. It

will

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>>>heat up to 1700C/3100F - plenty hot enough for tinning cable ends.
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>>http://llatikcuf.home.comcast.net/torch.jpg
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>>$1.99 at local Ace Hardware. I guess if you include tax (6.6%) then
>>it's over $2.
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>I've got the exact same one. Twice, actually, the first time some 20

years

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>ago and the second time about now. I paid either 2.5 or 5 euro at the
>local Home-Depot-style building supplies Gamma store, this last time.
>Funny how those exact blue anodised alu thing are all over the world

and

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>all over time.
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>It's a pretty shortlived flame, though, with a full magazine.

Kitchen shops sell a refillable butane torch. Perfect for
crème brûlée, soldering small parts, and lighting candles.

You call that a torch? It's like soldering with a candle.

You mean this Roburn MT-770 that brings a brake cable to
orange-red in under five seconds? 64 ml tank capacity.

Probably not. I mean those things to light the stove with. Sorry.

Lou

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Lou Holtman said:

You call that a torch? It's like soldering with a candle.

Lou
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Lou, is it possible for you to direct a constructive comment my
direction?

Like I said the soldering job looked very nice. If it work for you that's
fine with me. No problem. I just see no need to do so if you use good
quality casing. I have a five year old ATB with the first set of derailleur
cables. Never took them off and still shifts very good. I don't understand
people who unnecessary dismantle half the bike., just for cleaning ;-)

Lou

On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 00:26:02 -0600, A Muzi <[email hidden]>

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Yeah, why would one remove a cable? I turn up the adjuster
once in a while, then turn it all the way back when I change
shoes. Haven't put a wrench to my brake cable anchor in
about 15 years (new cables after car crash).

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When you have to service an Ergo shifter, you need to remove the brake
cable to get the shifter off.

Michael Press said:

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Jasper Janssen <[email hidden]> wrote:

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It's a pretty shortlived flame, though, with a full magazine.

Kitchen shops sell a refillable butane torch. Perfect for
crème brûlée, soldering small parts, and lighting candles.

The kitchenshop version is merely a food-snob version of the standard
plumber's torch which, admittedly, looks out of place in a kithen even if
it's never been used in the field.

Jasper

I like to pre-cut and solder my spare cables to the correct length, then
take them on tour with me. If I'm in the middle of nowhere and my cable
breaks, all I need is an allen wrench to put the new one in. No need to
futz with cutters and crimps at the side of the road.

But lately I have found it's hard to find cables around here that can be
soldered. So i've switched to Krazy Glue, which seems to work just as
well.

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K.