<VV> Heater control cable question...

Joe West joew@diveaz.com
Tue, 04 Jan 2005 17:46:50 -0700


This is a great idea and would be EASY to make... I'll make one up and test
it and let everyone know how it works.  I guess the big assumption is...
Will the outer casing contain oil under pressure.  Guess I'll find out.

Joe West


On 1/4/05 3:51 PM, "goofyroo@excite.com" <goofyroo@excite.com> wrote:

>>>>>> The procedures for frozen cables are petty intuitive, and involve trying
>>>>>> to get lubricant/solvent to drain into the sheath from the high end. And
>>>>>> they take time. CLOCK time, not necessarily actual WORK time.
> 
> Years ago I had a "cable oiler" from J.C. Whitney that was a marvel of
> simplicity.  It was a large syringe ending in an open tube.  The tube's end
> had a slit piece of hose, about like fuel-line hose, stuck in it.  The
> hose-piece ID was such that a motorcycle cable (or heater cable, in the
> Corvair's case) could be pushed into it and the tube tightened around it via a
> hose clamp.
> 
> I'd fill the syringe with oil, insert the plunger, and apply pressure.
> Gradually -- though much faster than any drip method -- the oil would flow
> down into the cable casing, eventually dripping out the other end.  Cable
> oiled.
> 
> Wish I could find one that simple and effective today.  I tried a motorcycle
> shop, and the Whitney catalog, to no avail.
> 
> Michael Smith
> Dallas
> 
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