"Up North" wrote: I used to weld the old cable to the new when I was
replacing the cables on
masonry block boom trucks. I would first weld a knob on the end of each
cable then weld the two ends together. Using the old cable to pull the new
one through, I then used a cutoff wheel on a 4" grinder and cut the old
cable off. It worked a lot better that brazing them together and I never
had one break during the threading of the new cable.
Steve
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Okay, Steve, I concede. The technique you describe sounds like it would
work. Is that the way you did it, PD Fritz? I apologize for being so
skeptical. My mind was stuck on the idea that the individual strands had to
be joined.