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Winston Winston is offline
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Snag wrote:

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I ride , and I lube my cables with plain old gear oil . Takes a little
longer , lasts a LOT longer. That stuff that comes with the injector thingy
eventually ends up making a stiff nasty mess of your cables . And the only
way to loosen them up is to shoot more of the same crap into them .


How does that work?

Do you slide the cable out of the housing or
did you make an adapter to squirt the oil in,
or something?

I've just been holding the end of the cable
vertically. I use the Tri-Flow (leetle
red tube) to dribble oil on to the cable and
thus in to the housing. It works a treat!

--Winston