[SEL] Life happens!!/ cable ends

[Edd Payne]

You lost me Jerry.What the heck could make you want to visit your girl 
friend that badly every weekend???
EDD PAYNE
PO Box 364 Gulgong N.S.W
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edsengns
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jerry Evans" <jerrye at databak.co.za>
To: <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2007 7:35 AM
Subject: [SEL] Life happens!!/ cable ends


> At 07:00 PM 21/12/2007, you wrote:
>>From: jlb94 at juno.com
>>Subject: Re: [SEL] Life happens!!
>>To: sel at lists.stationary-engine.com
>>Hello Joe,
>>         Building a ball using silver solder (not the stuff that looks
>>like lead
>>solder) will work if the cable is stainless.
>>=        =        =        =        =        =
>>Thanks Rupert,
>>I don't have any Silver Solder but I can probably get some.
>>I'll need to do more experimenting.
>>I can't do much machining but, I just might try to get a couple
>>cable clamps that "squeeze" on the cable and make that work.
>
> Hi Guys,
>         Been away from the computer a bit lately so I've missed most of
> this thread but here's my "tuppence ha'penny" worth.
>         My first means of transport was a 4th hand Lambretta scooter -
> most of the cables (in fact most of the scooter)  were "stuffed". In those
> days I had no money (nothings changed), no tools and not much else. The
> only thing I did have was an overwhelming desire to visit my girlfriend 
> (50
> miles away) every weekend !!
>         In a pinch the brass pin from an old electric "plug" (the bit with
> a screw in that grips the electric wire) makes a good (if temporary) cable
> end stop. It does not last very long if you are rough with the cable
> control but is also great for getting the final adjustment made. If I had
> the ability and tools in those days I would have put one on, adjusted it
> and then soldered it to the cable. As it turned out I could only cut it to
> size with a hacksaw and file it to a shape that fitted (did you know that
> you can use a hacksaw to file with? It's possible if you have enough of 
> the
> above mentioned "overwhelming desire" :-)
>
> Keep the revs up (or down)
> Jerry Evans
> Near Johannesburg in Sunny South Africa.
> Etched Brass Engine Plates made to order:
> www.oldengine.org/members/evans/plates/index.htm
>
>
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