Russ, we just received a brand new SG-618 and I think the cable was installed incorrectly from the factory. I went to turn the traverse handwheel and nothing happened, so I looked under the table and the cable was off the pulley. I found that the stock cable is (keep in mind its all metric) 4mm OD, which is near your 5/32" OD and appears to be a 3mm cable with a flexible coating and when I got it re-wrapped up correctly with 7 wraps on the hand wheel pulley, it all seemed to work correctly. I even custom CNC Plasma cut a lock ring spanner for the 40mm diameter lockring.

Timely video 2 years later. I need to replace the cable on my Taiwanese grinder after it slipped off the screw. Putting the cable on the screw with the free end on the right side is the key. My screw has a smaller radius and more threads. Existing cable is steel with plastic coating.

Good work Rus. That's a nice looking surface girder you got there :-)

Hi Russ. Following on from the interesting kevlar suggestion below, some stainless steels work harden which can make machining them interesting. I was wondering if that could happen with this cable? I suspect I'm missing something as ss cable is widely used in ships fittings etc, but perhaps not on winches? BobUK.

Left hand thread on the cap screw replacement, that way, you can do what you wanted to do, but also respect the way the cable comes off the screw drum. Which kind of begs the question...how do you know that the drum you have isn't from the other side, and that the missing one wasn't like i suggested?? Do the instructions speak of this? It would seem the most logical way to house such an implement.

I wonder if a kevlar cord would work better than the steel cable...

Russ good morning! What is the diameter of the cable tobe replaced?

Worst machine working this type machine 🤮