rogerzilla
Legendary Member
Normally possible. The worst that can happen is that you have to do it the hard way.
Replacing inner brake cable, removing nothing?
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Darius_Jedburgh
Veteran
Why recable? Pull the inner back further than where you are going to cut the outer. Cut the outer. Push the inner back. If the outer was originally too long then the inner will still be long enough.Snigger
thread ressurection as im seaching if i can do this as my new build i made the rear cable housing too long so i need to recable
Simples. A five minute job.
cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
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because i have to get the clamped bit through the outer which will be deformed by the brake caliper clamp point
It shouldn't be so deformed as to not be able to pull it through though.
Darius_Jedburgh
Veteran
Ajax Bay
Guru
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Vital you use a cable cutter (as @slowmotion and @Tojo suggest) which cuts cleanly.
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
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I just looked at the five year old link I posted for the Draper Expert cable cutter. It was less than a tenner then. Now it's £18!
andrew_s
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The decent single-ended inners are cut electrically, leaving a very neat little blob of melted metal on the end, which threads though brakes and outers as easily as is possible, and which is immune to loose strands of wire.
Don't ever get the cheap double-ended Road/MTB brake cables, that require you to cut the wrong nipple off, and don't cut any excess off until after you've finished fitting the cable.
If you cut the end, even with a good cutter or the application of solder or superglue, what you end up with will be less neat and harder to thread.
