How To Make A Strength Cable

Joe is an expert when it comes to making strength cables. Today, he goes over how to make a strength cable with a ball stop and a strength cable with a hollow bolt.
Here is a list of what you will need for today's video:
Ball Stop
Thimble
Sleeve Oval - Quarter Inch
Sleeve Oval - 3/16 Inch
Ball Stop - 3/16 Inch
Cable - 3/16 Inch
Cutters
Crimpers
Razor Blade

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[bamcakes]

Hell yeah, Royal Rumble 91’. Rick the Model was lights out in that one!

[troqueandoconrivandoval]

Great video man, very well explained, thanks 🙏

[valadezjose]

This completely answered my question thanks

[jamescollins]

Nice video, I'm curious though about the swageless threaded eye terminals for 3/16 vinyl coated rope, compared to using a thimble for a Titan cable crossover mechine.

[dyardsale]

Good video, wished for part numbers on the tools.

[HerbertAtkinson]

Very good video young man, question I have is being I don't have a crimper pliers can I just use a hammer to flatten the aluminum sleeve on the coated cable? I use 3/16" sleeves I have no idea if I need the ball on the cable the old one doesn't have it.

[coreysgmail]

Yoooo thank you for the tutorial !!!
My machine is different, it’s Hudson steel….. my cable end has a ball on it (tiny ball). Not like the type you showed.
How do I fix my cable with a different system that looks like it’s made for oem cable

[coldogno]

what if the cable PU sheathing get brittle and disintegrated can u just install new PU tube to cover it instead of buying new cable

[flavioborrovic]

Can be used aluminum ball terminals or just had to be steel ball terminals?

[StephenMcGrew-vlty]

How do you handle ball shank cable ends? We have them coming off often enough that I was interested in purchasing the equipment to swage a new ball shank on, but it seems wildly expensive (see TECNI/Loos &co).

[ProflexFitness]

Un-Believable This video should be taken down for safety reasons.

#1 You're calling the cable diameter size incorrectly - It's actually 1/8" cable without the nylon coating and with the coating it's 3/16"

If you looked at the box or spool it would show that it's 1/8" cable + The Coating = Overall Diameter of 3/16"

Although some wire rope Cable company's do incorrectly label their Cable diameter sizes.

So again you don't use 3/16" hardware to swage a cable that's 1/8"

You NEVER describe the Cable Diameter with the Nylon Coating ON. Describe it Always as if it's a cable without the coating. WHY? . . . See #2

#2 You always swage the Ferrule to the bare cable ONLY and NEVER with the nylon coating!

#3 The "oval sleeve" you refer to is called an Oval Ferrule and again you should be using 1/8" Ferrules, NOT 3/16"

I can only hope that you don't train like you make cable.

ps. you made a comment in the video that this side of the cable that you were making is not the "Weight Bearing End" of the cable, WTF, are you serious??

Just because you might not actually be: for example doing seated cable rows with that end of the cable doesn't mean that there is no load on that side. That ball stop has weight load on it from the other side when: for example you are doing lat pulldowns on the same exact machine that can also do seated cable rows.

pss. How to Swage a 1/8" Ferrule to 1/8" cable:
1st swage: in the middle
2nd swage: the side closest to the thimble
3rd swage: the side that's not swaged

3/16" Ferrule to a 3/16" cable get 4 Swages

[mikearizona]

Never ever crimp over the coating on the cable. Those aluminum ferrules are designed to fill in the voids of the cable by being crushed into the v’s of the cable design. Please Google crimping order on different ferrule sizes too. Very unsafe video