[SEL] Life happens!!

Listerdiesel listerdiesel at gmail.com
Fri Dec 21 01:24:42 PST 2007


> In a message dated 12/20/2007 10:36:37 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> skipcleveland at bellsouth.net writes:
>
> The clutch cables on the Cushman motor scooters and other similar machines
> using cables had a small grommet on  each end that was bored through big
> enough for the cable to fit through. The end where the cable came  out was
> bored back in a taper or funnel shaped. All you had to do was push the cable
> through the grommet. When the cable protruded a ways, you would just fray
> out the cable and then fill it with plain solder which in turn, made the
> cable to large in dia. to go back through. That way, you ned not to heat the
> cable very hot thus preserving its temper and strength. This was all
> detailed in the maintainance literature, and the procedure would make a
> repair that would last a long time or 'till the cable wore out.
> Skip
>

Most British motorcycles used that method for years, and generally it
was a good method, but occasionally you'd find the solder joint
failing, just as you needed it most when you were doing a panic
braking manouevre!  Didn't matter so much if you lost the clutch, but
losing the front brake was a REAL problem.

The old Ariel Red Hunter 350 I had did that to me.

Peter
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