How to Make/Repair Cable

[Moto7man]

Originally Posted by Coop

There was an old school shop that used to shorten or make longer cables cheap. He used acid core solder, a propane torch and that was about it. He showed me how he did when he was closing up 15 years ago. I have made some since then and they all held up fine. Now days I just buy a cable but it's a good skill to have for emergencies.

You never know when you can have an emergency. Its good to have that skillset.

[rosco]

We make cables here. I get all the supplies from Motion Pro. We use silver solder to assemble them. You are definitely better off buying a cable if possible. I can't make a cable for what you can buy them for but it does come in handy once in awhile for special applications.

[Zman]

I agree it is easy to build your own throttle cables, but the Motion Pro T3 cable for KTM 2 strokes is several inches longer, has two threaded ends. It really works well and totally avoids the excitement and drama when a branch snags your throttle cable.


http://www.ebay.com/itm/Motion-Pro-T...f4987a&vxp=mtr


Be aware the carb threaded end can try to occupy the same space as some large tanks. See the other threads on this topic.