How to keep steel wire cable ends together. No fraying.

The solder I used:

If you heat the wire with a direct flame, it will oxidize and will not bond to the solder. Dipping the wire into molten solder is much more effective. Once this is done your, steel wire cable will not come undone, unravel, or unwind. This solder stop will keep all the wire from fraying.

[popperkeg]

Just found your video, this has solved a huge problem I had with some small diam wire rope, your method has instantly sorted it out, thanks for the video.

[jaybjork]

I can't believe how cool videos like this are. I did this and it worked like a charm ( including the grinding down on the ends for a nice tapered feed into the channel I was trying to feed the cable into ). Well done!

[toms.]

That is a neat little trick I'll use the rest of my days. Cool.

[russkiydzhigit]

The best format, I didn't even need to know this, but watched it and paid attention. I hope I find more on your channel

[markschnittker]

Worked great for me on stainless cable. Used carb cleaner to remove oil residue left from when the cable was made. Then dipped the tip in phosphoric acid for ~30sec (found that worked better than flux or hydrochloric acid) then dipped in the hot silver solder.

[OlTrailDog]

Stainless steel bike cable. Cleaned with Acetone. Not much luck with the solder most likely due to wrong flux and perhaps need to try phosphoric acid flux. TIG worked great, but not helpful because it instantly shortens the cable; my application is a Rohloff hub cables where the length is predetermined and critical. JB weld applied last night and seems to work. Problem with Rohloff is you squish the cable end in the spool and this destroys the cable end integrity every time no matter what method you use.

[nitesurfer]

Straight to the point and brilliant! Great video and thanks.

[MucaroBoricua]

Thank you for the great tip!!!
I'll be using it to keep all my bike cables neat.

[janjansen]

great tip, i did try to solder, didn t work .
So i stick- welded the tip, works great, for me it s faster

[chrismorris]

Silver solder and plumbing solder are different animals. Silver solder costing about 100x what plumbing solder cost.

[Teslawaverunner]

Really neat tip but make sure you clean so traces of flux agrees because it’s very very corrosive

[thesouldone]

This worked great on my stainless steel wire.

[meanerkat]

I found a spoon set up like that in my sons room but he doesn't even solder.

[shouanseechannel]

It works for me. Thank you so much for sharing your video.

[iceflameproductionz]

i stick welded some 3/8 cable for my logging winch works just fine to close up the ends. good video

[hothmobile]

This trick can also be used to keep the cables small after cutting so you can stick them in the crimping ferrules. It's impossible to fit cut braided cable in the ferrules if you don't do this trick.

[chadsalter]

We use a product called Black Max. It's an instant adhesive made by either 3M or Loctite that works well on smaller wire rope cables to keep them from fraying.

[munozyoshi]

Here I was about to spend money on a crimping tool... thank you!

[joblow]

Another fast and simple way to do it is to cut the cable using torches, I know not everyone has Oxygen & Acetylene torches, but you can use the welding tip, heat the cable cherry red, this will cut the cable and will not fray....

[stoneblue]

Learned something else from your collection of tricks, thanks!
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