[SEL] Life happens!!

Skip Cleveland skipcleveland at bellsouth.net
Fri Dec 21 06:16:34 PST 2007


Small world. We are organizing our 50th. High school reunion which remindes 
me that a good school chum and I rode to school every morning with each 
other, and he had a new Ariel Red Hunter and I had the lowley Cushman Eagle.
Skip

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Listerdiesel" <listerdiesel at gmail.com>
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Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 4:24 AM
Subject: Re: [SEL] Life happens!!


>> 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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