New derailler cable
Jan. 4th, 2009 04:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johnridleyMy rear derailler has been shifting pretty sluggishly for a while. I went to grease the cable today to try to both make it glide more smoothly and to repel water, but the thing is obviously fairly rusty, and more than half the strands are snapped near the attachment point on the derailler.
I had a teflon-coated replacement der cable and a bunch of cable casing sitting around, so I went ahead and installed it. It turns a lot easier now, I'll see how well it shifts tomorrow.
The cable I replaced is original, so I guess I got pretty respectable endurance out of it. The front derailler still has the original on it and is shifting fine, but of course it doesn't go through a casing down near the ground where it gets sprayed with salt water like the rear does, and it turns fewer corners, and gets used less, so it should last longer.
Odometer: 16223
I had a teflon-coated replacement der cable and a bunch of cable casing sitting around, so I went ahead and installed it. It turns a lot easier now, I'll see how well it shifts tomorrow.
The cable I replaced is original, so I guess I got pretty respectable endurance out of it. The front derailler still has the original on it and is shifting fine, but of course it doesn't go through a casing down near the ground where it gets sprayed with salt water like the rear does, and it turns fewer corners, and gets used less, so it should last longer.
Odometer: 16223
