KLEIN EXPERT NEEDED!!!!

[Copey]

OK, so I am building the Adroit up (having stripped it down and cleaned EVERYTHING) and tried to keep the internal cable guides where they belong - inside the tubes!!!

HOWEVER... The one for the rear brake has come out and I have spent far too much time swearing at it, trying to guide it home, can someone put me out of my misery and tell me how its done??



Cheers

Mark

 

[nporternz]

OK, so I am building the Adroit up (having stripped it down and cleaned EVERYTHING) and tried to keep the internal cable guides where they belong - inside the tubes!!!

HOWEVER... The one for the rear brake has come out and I have spent far too much time swearing at it, trying to guide it home, can someone put me out of my misery and tell me how its done??



Cheers

Mark

get a bottle of wine, a swear box, some good tunes... clear 2 hours in the diary and keep trying

 

[sastusbulbas]

You could alway try some thin solid copper cable, a long single strand with a slight bend should be stiff enough to go inside the plastic sheaf and guide it along its way, and do less damage than a wire coat hanger?

 

[pete_mcc]

One way is to thread cotton through the guide (fixed at the front end), put the guide back in the frame as far as possible and then get your hoover out and suck the cotton out of the rear end of the frame. Now you have cotton thread running through the guide and frame and now use the cotton to guide the guide through. Make sense? Had to do hundreds of these back in the day...

 

[Copey]

Thanks guys... I think between all of these suggestions, I'll crack it.. maybe I;ll just drink the wine and stare at the Adroit for a bit!

 

[JeRkY]

the best way!

 

[jonrock]

Get the bike in a bike stand.
Turn the frame so the frame tube is vertical
The end you want it to come out of should be at the bottom
Thread the cable
Get a piece of thin wire bent into a hook and push the cable/sleeve past the exit hole.
place a magnet just under the exit hole.
Then pull the cable back very slowly with the wire hooked around it.
pull the piece of wire hard so when the cable reaches the end it will be hooked out
Might take a couple of goes...
Works for me.......
J

 

[Carsten]

plenty of threads on this topic. do a seach for klein AND liner or klein AND cable

e.g.

http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/viewto ... lein+liner

http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/viewto ... lein+liner

carsten

 

[clockd]

Magnet!!!

after trying all the mentioned ways, vacuum cleaners, wire, inverting the bike etc etc.
no offense intended.

put the cable in the outer, cut the end with proper cable cutters...so its nice and round.

slightly bend the end of the cable (the exit hole is the problem obviously)

go to your local hardware store and buy a packet of several magnets.

stick 3+ magnets together and thread the cable inside the tube and use the magnet to guide the cable to the hole.

carefully find the hole with the end of the cable.

literally takes 5 minutes

 

[holden]

I'm in a similar situation ... my plan is pete_mcc's; It's not damaging and makes the most sense.