Bowden Cables - Did someone on the forum once say...

[Rhothgar]

That they make bowden cables?

I am trying to find a supplier to hexagon crimps or terminals on the internet and the specific tool for crimping the terminal ends on.

Of course, it's a rabbit hole. What diameter and length is the nipple? What shape is it? What is the hex crimp required across the flats after crimping?

I've watched a couple of really interesting videos on YouTube about making your own end with solder.

It just triggered a memory that I have spoken or exchanged communications with someone in the recent or perhaps not so dim and distant past that said they make them!!!

[Gibbo2286]

I've got these, both Ripault's tools. I've used them for both electrical and Bowden accelerator cables with 'bullet' connectors. Offers invited.

[Paul-R]

I used to have a pair of the black handled crimpers. They were used for crimping brass bullet connectors instead of soldering them. I stopped using them as the crimping didn't give much protection against water corrosion and ended up soldering the remainder of the brass connectors.

[CitroJim]

What are you wanting them for Roger?

[Stickyfinger]

Window wires Jim....I am sorry for putting this thought in his head

[CitroJim]

Window wires Jim....I am sorry for putting this thought in his head

Ahh yes! Understood! For my bikes, I make my own and have the tools to do so and I'm sure as a fellow cyclist, Roger does too... But for windows, our bike ones are nowhere near 'man' enough...

[Rhothgar]

Window wires Jim....I am sorry for putting this thought in his head

Ahh yes! Understood! For my bikes, I make my own and have the tools to do so and I'm sure as a fellow cyclist, Roger does too... But for windows, our bike ones are nowhere near 'man' enough...

I only have cable cutters Jim.

I wouldn't want to make a cable for my bike and rely on a nipple I had swaged to bring me to a stop in an emergency.

It may be that Colin has a spare regulator but his photos from last year or year before show one with a knackered cable anyway and, as you said yourself Jim, the wires go brittle.

I don't want to be held to ransom by the German seller on Ebay for the £26 postage to UK for an 100g item!!!

Naughty Alasdair...

[Gibbo2286]

Just a thought Alasdair what's the cable for, there are still some cables sitting in my storeroom, clutch, handbrake, and throttle cables, some I have no idea what for.

[Rhothgar]

Just a thought Alasdair what's the cable for, there are still some cables sitting in my storeroom, clutch, handbrake, and throttle cables, some I have no idea what for.

Window regulator. Worst case scenario.

[Gibbo2286]

Just a thought Alasdair what's the cable for, there are still some cables sitting in my storeroom, clutch, handbrake, and throttle cables, some I have no idea what for.

Window regulator. Worst case scenario.

Ah! Can't help with that.

[Rhothgar]

Ah! Can't help with that.

No problem. Thanks anyway.