Loading…
11
Honestly, I've been crimping my cable ends wrong for like five years.
Tbh, I was just using my Park Tool CN-10 crimper on the metal sleeve and calling it good, but a customer brought in a bike where the housing kept pulling out. Ngl, I watched a video from a shop in Portland and realized you have to crimp the housing's plastic liner first, then the metal. How do you guys make sure those things actually stay put?
3 comments
Log in to join the discussion
Log In3 Comments
james_kim6mo ago
Yeah the plastic liner first thing is a game changer. I just give it a good squeeze with the crimper, then do the metal. Seems to lock it in solid.
5
annanguyen6mo ago
Oh man, @james_kim, that's so true. It's like when you do things in the right order, the whole job just clicks. I see it everywhere now. Like cleaning a pan, you gotta soak it first or you're just scrubbing forever. Or putting a USB in, you flip it twice before it goes. That extra step you mentioned with the liner is the same deal, a little prep makes the main task easy.
2