Winston wrote:
Snag wrote:

(...)

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

I disconnect the cable , dribble some oil in , then slide the cable
in-n-out to "pump" the oil in . I average lubing them about once a year ,
and always lube them well before installing . My preference is synth gear
lube , it seems to crawl into the cable a bit faster and seems "slicker" .
On some cables I can build a tape cone to act as a reservoir for the lube .
A little less mess and it goes a bit faster .

--
Snag
Learning keeps
you young !