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  • Come on! Ferrules!

    Try finding one that fits in such a tiny hole (no pun intended). I couldn't find one for my Van Tuyl, so I made one out of a ballpoint end! Maybe I just wasn't looking hard enough though.

  • Try finding one that fits in such a tiny hole (no pun intended).

    Every shop stock them, you can buy them from Madison.

  • Every shop stock them, you can buy them from Madison.

    Sadly I'm not from the UK! Local shops didn't seem to have them and having such a tiny part posted didn't seem worth the effort, so I just made my own. Works perfectly.

  • Every shop stock them

    For the lolz, I measured the step down ferrules in my parts bin. The minor outside diameters were:
    5.9
    5.8
    5.5
    5.4
    5.3
    4.8
    4.7
    4.4
    4.0
    (I have >9 of them, but there are duplicates)

    Cable outer sheath insertion bores
    5.3
    5.2
    5.0
    4.4

    Step lengths 3.8 to 6.5

    Overall length 10 to 17

    Presumably each one was perfectly sized for something once. This is the porn thread, so if we uphold decent porn standards of no rattling on either end and the step being <1mm from the socket face after assembly, "every shop" probably needs to stock somewhere between 100 and 200 separate SKUs to be able to supply the right stepped ferrule for any project.

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