David:  I don't know what kind of epoxy you're used to, but the stuff I have
that AI repair canoes and kayaks with is in noway too soft for the
application at hand.  The cheapie devcon 5 minute stuff isn't even
waterproof and that stuff ghets gummy under heat and fluids.  If push comes
to shove, what about a methacrolate based  adhesive or the Loctite sleeve
retainer stuff.

Reinforcing the west systems epoxy(105 resin and 205 hardner) with either
coloidal silica, short styrands of kevlar, or cotton fibers would increase
the strength over just plain epoxy for sure.

Dimwitted Moose and Flying Squirrel
-----Original Message-----
From: David Beierl <synergx@IBM.NET>
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Date: Wednesday, May 26, 1999 11:48 AM
Subject: Re: Speedometer Cable End

>At 05:28 5/26/99 -0400, Frank Condelli wrote:
>>to make the speedo cable end square again ?  I've been thinking about this
>>for a week now and can't seem to come up with a suitable solution short of
>>replacing the really expensive speedo cable {:-(   So.........have any of
>
>Without actually looking at it, my thought is to braze it and add some
>extra metal, then file it square again.  If that would heat the cable
>sheath too much, then make the hole in the cap considerable larger, make an
>insert to fit the hole and epoxy it onto the cable end.  Epoxy would be too
>soft to use simply to square up the cable again, but adding a little width
>and giving it a metal skin should do nicely.
>
>david
>David Beierl - dbeierl@ibm.net