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

The solder I used:
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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.

[@popperkeg1234]

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.

[@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

[@toms.3977]

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

[@chrismorris8695]

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

[@nitesurfer]

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

[@jaybjork7855]

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!

[@MucaroBoricua]

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

[@stoneblue1795]

Learned something else from your collection of tricks, thanks! (subbed)

[@thesouldone82]

This worked great on my stainless steel wire.

[@iceflameproductionz]

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

[@HayabusaRydr]

Amazing! Thanks for the tip!

[@markschnittker4770]

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.

[@maubunky1]

This is genius, thanks.

[@Discoworx]

Brilliant!

[@Twindadx2_]

Great stuff! Thanks

[@bobevans4444]

This was very helpful thank you.

[@Teslawaverunner]

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

[@MichaelR58]

Thanks for sharing !

[@janjansen9037]

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

[@stevelong9328]

great info, thanks!

[@Discoworx]

Terrific info, thanks

[@puffinlittle]

Greetings, nice tip. Thanks for sharing. pax, PL

[@shouanseechannel5075]

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

[@conraddcruz]

excellent tip. Thanks

[@yaasiyn2]

Thank you so much

[@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.

[@whatthe2458]

Did you see Thzzz comment above? Maybe that will help

[@Fester_]

Puddle - cool. Thanks.

[@pepeluke5911]

Very helpful idea tanks, saludos.

[@munozyoshi]

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

[@meanerkat4339]

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

[@jesse1136]

I set one of.these up with the spoon and now I keep catching my parents snooping in my room

[@H00TER]

Unfortunately, a lot of kids are on Smacks nowadays. My neighbor found his son half asleep playing fortnite with half a bowl of Honey Smacks on his lap. Last I heard, he's been using Special K, but it's hard to Kicks.

[@fmradio42]

Great!. any tips on welding half inch bolt to half inch wire rope, galvanized, I'm trying to use it for a deck railing.

[@ZachTrumble]

Brilliant

[@hothmobile100]

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.

[@chadsalter9961]

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.

[@CaptainRScott]

Will try as well!

[@maubunky1]

Instant adhesives if they are super glue types (cyanoacrylates) tend to solidify in the container rather quickly....I wonder what's the shelf life (once opened) of Black Max Loctite 380 you speak of? I might end up going the solder route simply because I've never seen solder or flux go bad in the storage.

[@joblow5372]

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....

[@maubunky1]

Once it is cherry red, do you just pull it apart or pinch it with something? Or will it disintegrate apart on it's own? Thanks.

[@nathanmciver6496]

Can you use electrical solder? Or does it have to be silver solder? Well all good, check my connection and I don't need to use this! Nice to know incase thier was ever frayed ends

[@methatronn]

Just use shrink tubing..

[@jshippey]

I tried to use your method however the solder would not stick to the cable. It just pooled up into a ball, but it would not solder onto the wire.

[@nateb4543]

How durable is this? Would a 1/16" hold up I'm a strong trimmer?

[@nateb4543]

1/16" cable does not work on a string trimmer. Tried keeping thw ends from fraying in multiple different ways

[@rkaag99]

would alumiweld rods work?

[@AB-lc8be]

Hi guys. I was thinking of making a closed loop from the steel wire, to run over two pulleys continuously (like an endless belt). Any ideas how the two ends can be connected strongly enough and without a rigid joint..

[@Discoworx]

That's exactly why I started looking into this. I want to cross the cable over, too to change the direction of rotation of the driven roller. In an oven sub 200 degrees centigrade. Did you get yours joined?

[@AB-lc8be]

@@Discoworx nope nothing for steel cables, but luckily I found an alternate PP round belt for power transfer that can be seamlessly joined. I wanted round profile specifically because I wanna rotate it sideways too in the same loop. Since you don’t need round profile (or pulleys) you can look into shaft driven, or metal gears driven system. That should be fine in high temperatures. If you want to stick with cables, one clever out of the box solution can be to use a ratchet (or one way rotation) at driven pulley. And reverse cable direction before the joint. So the cable only transfers power. Use a direction control lever separately. So you can turn driven either way irrespective of driving pulley.

[@Discoworx]

@@AB-lc8be thanks but I'm going to practice a lap joint and/or sort of braid the strands of wire rope, use phosphoric acid as a flux and silver solder or lead. 🙏

[@AB-lc8be]

@@Discoworx another great idea. I’ll hopefully ask you in some time how it went! 👍🏻

[@nateitscake88]

I prefer shrink wrap

[@chadbosko8935]

You make it look so easy it just does not work, one thing how do u cut the end so neat to start with that might help, what a mess, back to the duct tape the old stand by

[@First_Class_Amateur]

I’m actually about to do this again tomorrow. If you want I’ll make another video.

[@andycapp8843]

Use the method demonstrated on a part of the wire cable that hasn’t separated….then use a thin angle grinder cutting blade. Repeat the procedure.

[@mikeritter2979]

👍

[@ronc3266]

is that a stainless steel cable?

[@FizzlNet]

Paraphernalia! :D

[@vinceincorvaia5110]

FizzlNet junkie

[@earthlingjohn]

😂 But no contraband

[@rodwellcort7503]

🤯

[@3ormorecharacterstimes2]

I just cut it with a torch, end melts itself together

[@davidkay4174]

check out " right on with john crane " channel , his latest viudeo

[@danmiskov1812]

Good stuff! Thanks!