"This method is used by most all professional mechanics. (At least by myself and the ones I know..lol)"
Your diagonal cutter method is accurate. I confess that even I used Diagonal cutters for brake housing when I was a shop mechanic, but I did that only for tool preservation reasons. I'd use the cheaper diagonal cutters for brake housing in order to preserve the nicer Felco cutters for the shift housing only. Now that I'm a home mechanic, I use the nice Park cutters for both. The steps are: 1. Cut where I need to cut 2. Look at the cut. 3. If the top coil has curled inward, get that top quarter coil into the cutter jaw and scrub it off. 4. half dozen strokes on the flat file 5. wow out the plastic inner liner with the sharpened spoke The maneuver at 3 is the only thing that has any technique to it. If you think the Park cutter can't get at it with those fat jaws, then you are holding them upside down. I think the point is that whether you are careful or not when you do your first cut, you can tell whether you are going to get unwanted friction by inspecting your cut and fix it if it needs fixing. On Saturday, November 9, 2013 7:04:08 AM UTC-8, Clayton wrote: > > I second what Tim says. Bicycle housing cutters are for longitudinal > housing only. I found when I tried a dremel cutoff tool on brake wires, it > left a sharp edge on the inside of the spiral wrap as well as ground up > abrasive, metal and burned plastic in the hole. Not good for preventing > friction. Diagonal cutters work best of all methods. The trick I use is to > place the diagonal cutters on the housing and gently cut through only the > plastic cover, then rotate and repeat. You will find that the top edge of > the cutter will find the crack between the windings at some point. Cut > through the cable. The cable will fold down as the top part of the cutter > slips between the spiral. Then just nip off the corner to make the housing > cut perpendicular. Works great. Open up the plastic hole with a sharpened > old spoke or a nail. Done. This method is used by most all professional > mechanics. (At least by myself and the ones I know..lol). Diagonal cutters > do not work on longitudinal housing. Use the Park for derailleur cables. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
