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Building Tips and technical articles. => Building techniques => Topic started by: Allen Eshleman on February 16, 2013, 02:12:47 PM
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I'm working with 1/2 a leadout wire. It is unraveling where I cut it. How do I prevent that?
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How are you cutting it? If you're using diagonal cutters then you are doing unnecessary violence to both cable and cutters.
I use a cut-off wheel. The strands will sproing out a bit, but can usually be twisted back into place fairly easily.
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When you cut it, makes sure you leave enough wire to do the ends. After you cut it, or even before you cut it, put a dab of thick CA where it is to be cut or where it has been cut. That will keep it from unravelling until you are ready to finish the the ends, Then cut off the excess with the CA on it. It pays to "Plan ah e a d". (We were advised of that somewhere recently.)
KT
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My wife and I lived in a house where they didn't plan a head. It had to be stuck on the back later, with a 5' tall doorway.
(Of course, the house was from the late 1700's, so perhaps they had an excuse not to anticipate indoor plumbing).
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Something else that might work is to wrap the lines with tape, then make your cut..
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A good sharp pair of small cable cutters. Not side cutters like we use for cutting wire. But, even then I still have to twist the cable back into place once in a while.