On Nov 10, 2008, at 8:33 PM, Scott L. Minneman wrote:
> On the other hand, shops used to make their own cables by soldering
> ends
> (usually brass, maybe lead) onto bare cable -- the inner cable of a
> terminated cable that's made this way *must* be crushed/flared at the
> ends
> or there's a very good chance it'll pull out.
>
Many motorcycle shops have ends that can be soldered on cables. Throttle cable ends work well for derailleurs. Phil Brown Used to make my own motorcycle cables but not in Berkeley, Calif.