How To Make A Strength Cable

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[@adamknadler1041]

Thank you Joe, great video, very helpful, I was able to salvage my home gym!!!

[@bamcakes5314]

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

[@PikesCore24]

For really light systems, have you ever used cloth cables. The Lower speed pulley uses cloth cables. You would be amazed at how nice the reduced friction is.

[@jamescollins5073]

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.

[@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.

[@coldogno7]

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

[@valadezjose47]

This completely answered my question thanks

[@coreysgmail7261]

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

[@dyardsale5475]

Good video, wished for part numbers on the tools.

[@troqueandoconrivandoval]

Great video man, very well explained, thanks 🙏

[@HamdyAwad-tc4tf]

Nice work

[@flavioborrovic8619]

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

[@StephenMcGrew-vl4ty]

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).

[@yiani31]

What'd you end up doing? I think I'm still planning on getting a 24" hand swager to crimp the loop at one end, but I also have a Tuff Stuff machine with several thru-bolts that have something similar to a "shank ball" terminal, except it's not a ball, it's just sort of a thicker cylinder at the very end. It's kinda seeming like yeah, you're supposed to have the professional equipment to do that, so maybe I'll just have to order them pre-made :(

[@albertosastoque5931]

Muchas gracias. Thanks a Lot.

[@ronniecrawford1885]

Thank you!

[@Bmossy931]

Does anyone recognize the into song from the hub? 😂

[@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

[@Craig5150EVH]

Do you have a background in using ferrules ?

[@ProflexFitness]

That's all you have to say? Maybe your reply should be: "Thank you for the valuable information".@@Craig5150EVH

[@yiani31]

Thanks :) I learned a lot from your post, feeling more confident about this now.

[@ProflexFitness]

@@yiani31 Your Welcome, any questions at all, just ask :)

[@karlheisenberg2139]

🤦🏻‍♂️

[@mikearizona517]

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