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How to fix snapped throttle cable? (Read 289 times)
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Digger wrote
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Oops! ...
Not at all. You saved me some money and probably a bunch of trouble, since their measuring system is very straightforward. I owe ya one
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01/07/10 at 17:58:26
You can grab the cable with plyers about 3/16 from the end and peen it a little with a ballpeen hammer to flare the end. Now dip the end in some alcohol to clean it. If you have any tinners flux, dip it in the to. Now you can use a hand held propane torch and 70/30 silver solder and braze a little ball on the end. It will last forever if you do it right. DO NOT get the cable to hot or it will become brittle and break.
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Hi marine5317,
Before I gave up and decided to replace the cable, I tried frizzing the end and soldering it to a cable stop I machined out of a piece of aluminum. It didn't work so great. I used a butane torch, which throws a much smaller flame than your typical propane/plumbing torch.. less likely to ruin the cable. I cleaned and fluxed everything thoroughly, kept the flame moving, etc. but the solder would not go into the connection at all. I just made blobs of solder on top of the frayed cable. Anyway, I posted a
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01/09/10 at 16:00:26
Based on solder skills not being universal -- try using JB Weld to do the same trick. It will take longer to set up but will be "easier" to do.
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01/09/10 at 16:37:44
Would using brass work better, instead of aluminum?
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01/09/10 at 17:00:15
Another way would be to get a steel tube and a pin to fit inside.
Drill a hole in one side of the tube.
insert the wire and hammer the pin in to pinch the wire between the inside wall of the tube and the pin.
be sure to round the inside edge of the hole or it will cut the wire.
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01/09/10 at 21:29:11
justin_o_guy2 wrote
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Would using brass work better, instead of aluminum?
Yeah, the solder would have stuck to brass way better than aluminum. Oldfeller esplains all that in the tech thread.
verslagen1 wrote
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...insert the wire and hammer the pin in to pinch the wire between the inside wall of the tube and the pin..
That sounds pretty good, and would probably last as long as one of those screw-on cable stops (wire pinched by screw against brass). I was shooting for something as good as new though.. in this case, perfection was the enemy of the good.
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