My iva man was fine and even helped redo my cable
I left the adjuster end and then took the cable trough the balance bar and used cable clamps 3 small ones
I didn't strip the plastic covering and the cable pulled so iva man Campbell and me stripped the coating to the bare wire and reclamped and it passed and been fine ever since
I don't know how any other tester would be, but once measured you could take the cable and balance bar and get it swaged together at a local blacksmiths