Welding!

[sruelle]

I was used in the past to cut bicycle gear cable to make my release mecanism. Ususaly I was heating the part that I was willing to cut, putting some tin-lead wire that was penetrating in the cable and then cutting it. It was preventing all the small wires to come appart, then I was just needing to grind a bit to make the edge round and it was ready to use.

Just tried doing that today, just impossible with 60W iron and Tin - lead wire. the tin-lead melt stay in beads and run away.

Do I am missing something?

Any other way or material to do that?

Stephane

[Len]

Sounds like you need to apply more flux and or grind the cable end to remove oxidation. On braided cable, its best to silver solder I believe, and that will require a torch.


LEN

[swiss1]

I agree with Len, Flux and Torch.
Jeremy