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cutting thick cable - neat trick, works great
Recently on an extended car trip, I spent a couple of days in the home of a
couple who have owned a sailboat for many years. On their bookshelf was a good book on knots. I spent a couple of hours enjoyably tying knots, learned a thing or two. Back home, today I had to cut some 10-SO4 cable a couple of times. This cable is maybe 7/8" OD, shielded by heavy black rubber, surrounding 4 10 gauge wires. I am not an electrician and don't own a cable cutting tool. I had up until now done the first hack with my bolt cutters and then nipped off the cut bit by bit with dykes, laboriously. Today I decided to try the method the knot book suggested to cut heavy rope: I caught my hatchet in the bench vise solidly, edge straight up, laid the cable over the edge, and whacked with a 1.5 lb. soft faced hammer. About 3 blows and the cable parted cleanly. Works great! GWE |
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