Topic: Awesome travel item. Emergency cable repair kit on Ebay

[Duanob]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/401130538745

One of many important kits to throw in your saddlebags just in case. Lot's of old (some not so old) broken clutch and throttle cables happen all the time. Just thought I would post this as an FYI.

Will make a great stocking stuffer for the biker in the family! And keep you out of Black Friday mobs as well.

[mrbreeze]

Wish I had that when I had a throttle cable let go a couple of years back. It broke right at the grip and I was able to Mcgiver it to get me home (15 miles) but it was a big PITA. I'd much rather lose a clutch cable. I'm gonna order one to throw in my tool bag.

[BomberMann650]

Sweet!  The packaging is pretty killer too!

[Duanob]

Yeah it's one of those little things that can save your entire day that doesn't take up space in the bag and doesn't cost much.

[scrapvalue]

You may never need it yourself, but you will make a really good friend if you find someone that needs it!

[demon78]

Be careful guys I to thought that would the cat's ass once upon a time so i got the appropriate sized "barrels" and put them in my emergency kit along with feeler gauges, flashlight, Cigarete papers, (Vogue Papers, a thou and a half) and not long after, Snap, hopped off the bike flipped the seat up grabbed the kit installed the barrel repacked every thing cranked up the bike, off the side stand, pulled the clutch in Snap turned off the bike unpacked, popped the lever looked and found that the cable had pulled through, so reinsert the cable into the barrel, reinstalled, pulled the clutch in, snap, turns out no matter what I did I couldn't put enough pressure on the barrel and screw to make it hold I eventually got it back to the shop and tried again and using a vice twisted the screw head off, so wonderful idea but not so good in practice, maybe it's better now but it didn't work 20 years ago.
Bill the demon.

[mrbreeze]

I wondered about that. Maybe if you put 2 or 3 barrels on just to get you home. I would think if you put the barrel on at home, frayed the end and soldered it....maybe it would hold up. You have to properly clean and flux the cable for the solder to stick though.

[eigenvector]

I'm sure I'm not the only one here who's done it, but I had to make a new throttle cable for my Nighthawk.  Soldering it really wasn't a big deal - other than it can be a pain to make a soldering pot.  That pot was basically a requirement to doing it properly

Soldering pot was for me a 3/4" pipe cap with some plumbing solder in the bottom.  Stuck it on the barbeque grill and held a propane torch to it until the solder melted.  Melted some more solder into the now bubbling solder.  threaded the barrel, frayed the cable, fluxed it, then submerged it into the pot for something like 2 minutes and Voila.  Wear gloves because you can really burn your hand quick - especially on the cable.

[RevDoc]

Great idea, Duanob! Thanks for sharing.

[754]

I sold quite a few of them with the nut,for the heavy Harley clutch cables...back in the eighties.
Never had a bad report back..but maybe not many broke.. I think I recall a few guts having used them and they worked..
 If it slips try tying a knot or going around a bolt.
 Not much else I can think of to get you home..

[demon78]

When I mechaniced I'd make cables all the time and never had one slip it's all about putting the cable through the barrel taking the wires and a pair of good needle nose and bending each wire back into itself pulling it back into the barrel and then filling the hole in the barrel with solder with the emergency ones I couldn't do that.
Bill the demon.