1/16 or 1.58mm 7 x 7 Core Stainless Steel (316)
Cable and kits
This exact cable is used as OEM equipment for leading kayak brands.
Many manufacturers use stainless steel for rudder cables, this is a suitable replacement for any brand of kayak that uses stainless steel.
This DIY kit allows you to choose to buy just cable, or cable and swages or cable swages and timbles and d shackels depending on what you need exactly.
As its a free shipping listing you can also for example buy 2 x 3m cables with swages instead of 1 x 6m if for example you want more swages or simply to have you rudder cable pre cut into two length.
The most common way to use this kit is to loop the stainess cable through your footrest as shown in the pictures at the top, swag it and cover the swage in heat shrink so its nice and neat and not sharp - then on the other end you loop the cable around the ferrule and swage it in place and again cover in heat shrink. then use the stainless steel d rings to attach the thimble loop to the rudder itself. But you can do it another way if you like.
Heat shrink is normally activated with a heat gun but can also be done with a lighter, match, boiling water or a heat gun.
Please note to fix the swages in place, they need to be crushed. this is done ideally with a Swaging tool. but if you do not have one of those a decent set of vice grips or a bench vice can work well - people do it many ways with hammers and all sorts - they can work but obviously a swaging tool is best.
ZONE 1
New Zealand
ZONE 2
Bangladesh,
Bhutan,
Brunei,
Cambodia,
China, Cook Islands,
Fiji, Guam, Hong Kong,
India,
Indonesia,
Japan,
Kiribati
Korea, North
Korea, South
Laos, Macau,
Malaysia,
Maldives, Mongolia
Myanmar, Nepal, New Caledonia, Niue, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Singapore, Soloman Islands, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Western Samoa
ZONE 3
Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden Switzerland United Kingdom
ZONE 4
Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Canada, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzistan, Lebanon, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, USA, Uzbekistan
ZONE 5
Alaska, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda,
Argentina, Azores, Bahamas, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, C.I.S (Russia), Cameroon, Cape Verde, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Congo Republic, Costa Rica
Cote d' Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia
Falkland Islands,
Faroe Islands,
French Guyana,
Gabon, Gambia,
Georgia,
Ghana,
Greenland,
Grenada,
Guadeloupe,
Guatemala,
Guinea,
Guinea-Bissau,
Guyana, Haiti, Hawaii, Honduras, Hungary
Jamaica, Kenya, Latvia, Lesotho, Liberia, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya,
Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Macedonia,
Madagascar, Madeira, Malawi, Mali, Malta, Mauretania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Miquelon
Moldova, Monaco, Montserrat, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Puerto Rico, Republic of South Africa
Réunion, Romania, Rwanda, Saint Helena
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia, Saint Pierre, St Vincent and the Grenadines
San Marino, Sao Tome and Principe
Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Slovakia, Slovenia, Somalia, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland
Tanzania, The Comoros, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turks and Caicos Islands, Uganda, Uruguay, Vatican City, Venezuela, Virgin Islands, Western Sahara, Yugoslavia, Zambia, Zimbabwe