On Thu, 09 Jun 2016 00:20:25 -0700, Gunner Asch
wrote:

On Wed, 08 Jun 2016 16:16:03 -0700, Larry Jaques
wrote:

On Wed, 8 Jun 2016 18:33:16 +1000, Jon Anderson
wrote:

On 6/06/2016 12:40 AM, Larry Jaques wrote:

Jon lives in a rural part of Australia, Gunner. The pickin' is a mite
sparse Down Under.

And standard 6-10 week shipping to Oz costs an arm, a leg, and your
left nut. Airmail? Send your wife and all daughters.

Unibit clones are readily available, I bought several for the sparkies.

Slow boat shipping isn't too bad, just slow. A small flat rate box is
$34. But unless I need something from the States badly, I have stuff
shipped to my folks who collect and forward. Costs a good bit of money,
but that's just the way it is....

Yet I just bought a set of Chiwanese wire rope cutters for $12 with
free shipping all the way from Hong Kong, just a hop, skip, and jump
north of you. They work a treat on bicycle brake cables. Speaking of
which, how do you solder the ends of those things so they can be poked
through a cable housing after cutting and lubing?

Is there a special flux? I couldn't get it cleaned and soldered even
with a butane torch.

You dont solder them, you twist them into a semblance of order and
push them through the cable cover tube. And you cut off LAST, after
its been installed

You don't remove them, flush the cable jacket, lube the cable and
jacket, and reinstall? Or do you just throw away a perfectly good
cable and buy new each time you lube your bike? That's not very
eco-friendly.

The cuts from the factory are melted, probably a cutting torch cut.

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