they dont work..
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never buy park tools cable cutters
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Posted 11 months ago #
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I have some and they work fine.
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Mine have been going strong for 6 years
Posted 11 months ago # -
Yes they do, mine have worked faultlessly for some years. Is it possibly user error?
Posted 11 months ago # -
A good set of sharp pliers also suffice.
Posted 11 months ago # -
Love mine too.
Posted 11 months ago # -
Just bought some, but as the Park's site indicates, cutters not always get a perfect cut, and to use file to sand cut end down, or something. Certainly better than any other bodge method i've tried.
Posted 11 months ago # -
Mine are superb and I know a great many LBS spanner monkeys who will only use Park cutters.
Operator error, perhaps?
Posted 11 months ago # -
Got a ten year old set here. Still cutting fine.
Posted 11 months ago # -
10 - 15years on mine. If you get a little crushing when you cut the housing, pock some old inner through before and this acts to stop it. If you think any jaw type cutter will give a perfect end result that you need do absolutely no post cut finishing, I think you may be disappointed. I've heard Dremel type tools give good results.
Posted 11 months ago # -
Mine work fine.
Perhaps you're a bit weak wristed..
Posted 11 months ago # -
Bought mine just before moving out of my parents so that makes them 10ish years old. Still perfect.
Posted 11 months ago # -
I'm sure they do work
TBH though, I'd never buy generic tools from Park, the quality is mediocre with a mid-range price point
If you really want good rope cutters, try Felco
Posted 11 months ago # -
I have two sets of Park cable cutters and they are of different types - one is much more substantial than the other.
So maybe you have a weedy pair?
Posted 11 months ago # -
I'd never buy generic tools from Park,
Agreed, but for specialist bike tools I can't really see why I would buy from anyone else.
Posted 11 months ago # -
but as the Park's site indicates, cutters not always get a perfect cut
So why pay £30 then? When you can get some that cut like that for £15?
Posted 11 months ago # -
Agreed, but for specialist bike tools I can't really see why I would buy from anyone else.
absolutely - cable cutters aren't specialist cycle tools though, they're just standard rope cutters
Posted 11 months ago # -
I've a halfords top cutter (~12" handle version) slices through inners and outers like butter, probaly overkill but I've not used normal piers/cutters since buying them.
Posted 11 months ago # -
I have to say I think Park are overpriced and over-rated.
Campag way better for BB thread chasers etc.
Posted 11 months ago # -
Real men use a rotary tool.
Posted 11 months ago # -
I use an axe, works for me.
Posted 11 months ago # -
Is this some kind of reverse marketing ploy?
Post a negative comment so that loads of people are forced to step in. Clever.
Posted 11 months ago # -
well im gona try go to a hardware shop and look there instead because the ones i have worked fine and now ive just bought some new cables they are bending and tearing my new ones to bits so ill get something that will defo cut them cables, **** bikes piss me off
Posted 11 months ago # -
Couldn't cut clarkes outer cable with mine. No matter how hard you squeezed it just won't cut it. Go through shiumano stuff no probs though.
Posted 11 months ago # -
Wimps.
I can cut them with my teeth.Never owned some so cant comment, but I'm yet to find anything that will chop cable outer tidily. I usually dress them with an angle grinder.
Posted 11 months ago # -
yeh well its not ya top make cable im using i just bought it from my lbs cheap, it looks the same as what i had so i don't see why it wont cut through the bugger
Posted 11 months ago # -
They work fine most of the time but they do come with a good (lifetime?) warranty if they don't. My current set are a warranty replacement for my first because the clasp that holds them together broke.
Posted 11 months ago # -
Ive got some that cut like scissor blades (ie. shearing rather than cutting edges meeting) and they have been cr@p since I was given them 15yrs ago, never worked and they languish in my tool box untouched. Wont even cut inners cleanly.
These, the CN2
I always use some no-name side cutting pliers
ie like this
which cut inner and outers cleanly first time every time.
Posted 11 months ago # -
Eh - I have had mine for about 6 years now and still going strong - The only think is the grip/handle glue does give way so had to re0glue them on but apart form that they are fab
As above just warranty them - PT have a fab warranty replacement !
Posted 11 months ago # -
Rolson ones from eBay for me.
Posted 11 months ago # -
You guys that are having trouble using their Park [or any other cable cutters]
You have taken up any play that's occurred in the pivot via the nut - haven't you?
Posted 11 months ago # -
i know many a great shop mechanic that swears AT park cutters ... worst of a bad bunch imho
Felco are amaizing but are or were - 60-80 quid a pair ....
shimano make good disposable ones - 8 - 12 months half hourly use day in day out
for home use i have a pair of bnq paralel linkage sidecutters - slices like butter
- and you can sharpen them easy unlike the rope cutters which when sharpened have too big a gap and leave you cursing at your cables !
Posted 11 months ago # -
My Park cutters have been faultless
Bad workman, tools, etc...
Posted 11 months ago # -
Felco C7 - knocks all other wire cutters into a cocked hat!
Posted 11 months ago # -
8 years and still good.
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