|   Sparty & others using silicone spray in your housing... | næstep
Apr 1, 2002 6:18 PM | | Is this the stuff you're using?
næstep |
| Equivalent | Spar¡cus
Apr 1, 2002 8:23 PM | | I have a couple of cans of it on the workbench (senior moment, bought a new can when I already had a full one). Not the brand you've got pictured but anyway that's the stuff. To avoid getting it all over your rotor, make sure the "open" end of your housing is not pointed at your rotor when you spray it into the other end. I use my bench sander to "sharpen" (like a pencil) the plastic wand so it sticks into the housing easier.
--Spary |
| you mean......... | heff®
Apr 1, 2002 8:43 PM | | ........like I did with the Tri-Flow?
Fortunately, it missed the caliper............I just get new cables and housing when they get sticky, less room for "senior moments".
I'm mailing out the Glove Money tomorrow. And you oughta see Mikey T's house.
heff® |
| I use Teflon coated cables | shiggy
Apr 2, 2002 9:06 AM | | No lube needed
-shiggy, NADS #69 |
| So I'm playing with this cable routing... | næstep
Apr 1, 2002 9:11 PM | | ...using housing with a white plastic removeable liner (a tubular sleeve that can be completely removed and reinserted).
The Speedhub installation guide says to lubricate the cable, but isn't specific as to what should be used. So the first time around I ran the cable dry.
I'm using Tri-Flo's solid white grease in the shifter body (similar to what Sram uses in their shifter assemblies), but I've never lubed a modern lined housing before, for what I think are good reasons.
But now a local shop employee recommends I use Slick Honey on my cables, which just plain sounds wrong. I mentioned this dry silicon spray to him, and he'd never heard of it before. I picked up a can and I'll give it a try instead of gooping my housing up with grease.
næstep |
| So I'm playing with this cable routing... | Hammerheadbikes
Apr 2, 2002 5:54 PM | | slick honey with normal (i.e., not teflon coated) cables works great, especially if you run full housing
Charles |
| So I'm playing with this cable routing... | mikem
Apr 4, 2002 7:48 PM | | Are U still running the open cables? The manual says cable should be FULLY protected by the liner (P.11 bottom left corner). Your pics show different. Then again the removable liner has been replaced by a bonded liner system (ala shimano SIS) I ran the early(your cables) system.Trust me,you WILL run into problems with all the bends you have. |
| What about............ | Mr. Tokyo
Apr 1, 2002 9:24 PM | | Powdered Graphite? Do you think that would be a solution for lubing cables/housings? |
| Actually... | melanthius
Apr 2, 2002 12:13 AM | | ...better than powdered graphite is liquid-suspended graphite. It's marketed under the name Bike-Aid. The liquid suspension coats the cable much more effectively than powder.
-Mel |
| Talking about graphite.................. | Mike T.
Apr 2, 2002 2:53 AM | | ......I was with SRAM's Ed Nasjleti a couple of years ago while he was fitting shifting systems and he uses a spray liquid graphite. But not normal stuff, this is weird - he says it's used to spray onto the sails of racing sailboats, I guess to make the wind slide over the sails easier. He said the liquid propellant wasn't oil based and easier on the outer casing's liners.
I should ask him what it is. |
| I use Prolink in the needle applicator | jw25
Apr 2, 2002 6:28 AM | | I've tried silicone spray, but they don't seem to stay slick very long. I've had the best results with Prolink - the needle applicator is thin enough to slide in with the cable installed, and a quick squeeze adds enough lube to smooth things out, without excess dripping out. |
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