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I have Cyclo ones that give me no problems at all, but then I've always assumed that you have to open up the inner plastic sheath with a bradawl to get the inner through (or just push from the factory-cut end to the home-cut end). Using the broadest crimping section to re-round the outer profile also helps. I can't imagine what's going on if the cutter's mangling it so badly that you simply can't get the inner through.
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The smallest hex wrench in the set is included purely for the purpose of opening crushed housing liners... They certainly don't do their designed job of tightening tiny hex bolts very well!
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I always insert a length of spare inner cable into housing before cutting, helps prevent the lot from deforming too much.
Never had a problem with compressionless with the Park Tool using this method.
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Seems a good time to ask... I'm looking for a decent cable cutter.
I have a chunky boi Park Tool CN-10 but it doesn't play nice with compressionless cables - they look fine after cutting but then inner cables will not go through. Maybe it's crushing them somehow during cutting.
I've resorted to using my old pair of Knipex diagonal side cutters which do a good job, but they are so blunt that every housing cut is a wrestling match.
Before I buy another set of those, what's the better option here?