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Building Tips and technical articles. => Building techniques => Topic started by: roger on August 18, 2010, 03:03:46 PM
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any body
seen an article on building your own contol handle? and where to buy cable for it? ;D
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Just PM Carl Shoup(he is a member in members section) and get a Fancher Handle Kit. Unless he has raised the prices, it is $25.00 well spent. It is also a hard point handle in which you have to be fairly exact on tying lines.
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http://stunthanger.com/smf/index.php?topic=16797.0
Leadout cable would be too light weight, I suppose. Smallparts would have stainless cable, if you didn't mind getting way more than you needed: http://www.smallparts.com. Ditto McMaster-Carr: http://www.mcmaster.com. Both a fine companies to order from.
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You can get the cable at Lowe's, Tony's, or a good boat equipment store. You can buy the cable and swages there and use their tool to swage the ends right in the shop. The only barrier I hit was the need for a good, sharp wire cutter. Bring your own.
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any body
........................................and where to buy cable for it? ;D
Control Line Central or Tom Morris
R....
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You can get the cable at Lowe's, Tony's, or a good boat equipment store. (...). The only barrier I hit was the need for a good, sharp wire cutter. Bring your own.
You don't want to cut cable with a wire cutter -- it doesn't cut the cable very well, and it gets chewed up by the strands of cable that are (or at least should be!) harder than the cutter. You want a cable cutter. It's basically an exceedingly stout, exceedingly short pair of shears made from really hard material.
(Note that I use a sacrificial pair of wire cutters -- I need to get a good one!).
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I have a small pair of bolt cutters that work pretty good on cable.
As someone mentioned, Tom Morris (and I would expect Jim Snelson at CLC, also) sells handle cable.
The *Ted Fancher* handle from Carl Shoup is outstanding if you want to try a Hard Point handle, which you should try. y1 He has them in two sizes, the small one is about the same size as the E-Z Hot Rock and the bigger is lke the old, larger, E-Z Just.
Bob Baron's handle was in an article back 25, or so, years ago, maybe longer. it is *fully* adjustable, but I no longer know where that article is. It take s bit of work to reproduce.
Big Bear
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Are there any plans out there for the Fancher handle? I'm on a strict "no buy stuff" diet, and it's more fun to build stuff anyway! Looking at pictures it looks pretty easy to duplicate on my own, except that I can't tell what gauge metal he's using for the line mount plates and I'm not sure how far back they extend into the handle.
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I use sea fishing wire for my handle cable,(approx 150lbs breaking strain) comes with the tubing aswell.
Most tackle shops should sell it,..
Phil
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I always find its easy to cut cable if I run solder on the cable at the point I need to cut it, the strands are then held together!
Cheers Neville
P.S. I prefer Handels water music! ;D