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Offline roger

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« on: August 18, 2010, 03:03:46 PM »
any body
 seen an article on building your own contol handle? and where to buy cable for it? ;D
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Re: handels
« Reply #1 on: August 18, 2010, 03:30:26 PM »
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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Re: handels
« Reply #2 on: August 18, 2010, 03:49:11 PM »
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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« Reply #3 on: August 18, 2010, 06:39:11 PM »
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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« Reply #4 on: August 19, 2010, 10:22:32 AM »
Quote from: roger on August 18, 2010, 03:03:46 PM
any body
........................................and where to buy cable for it? ;D


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« Reply #5 on: August 19, 2010, 10:35:14 AM »
Quote from: Paul Smith on August 18, 2010, 06:39:11 PM
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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« Reply #6 on: August 19, 2010, 11:51:01 AM »
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.

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Re: handels
« Reply #7 on: August 19, 2010, 12:13:11 PM »
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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Re: handels
« Reply #8 on: August 20, 2010, 02:31:05 PM »
I use sea fishing wire for my handle cable,(approx 150lbs breaking strain) comes with the tubing aswell.
Most tackle shops should sell  it,..
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Re: handels
« Reply #9 on: August 21, 2010, 01:10:54 AM »
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

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