Carbie heat cable

[Chocolate]

What products would you recommend to keep this cable free moving within its outer cover.

 

 

[facthunter]

What type is it. Piano wire or Bowden? How likely the inner cable is to run dry depends on whether the cable is covered with something that will hold oil or flowing grease, as well as keeping water out and if it's Teflon lined. A small oiler clamped over the cable somewhere that accesses a small hole works fine if you can inject a bit of oil or light grease. If you can remove it easily and hang it vertically oil applied at the top will slowly drain through it, especially if you coil some rubber sheet around it to form a funnel for the oil. Nev

 

 

[Bruce Tuncks]

There is a WD40 "teflon dry spray" product which I like. After it has dried, you wonder if it has done anything at all but the parts are definitely more slippery.

 

 

[Chocolate]

What type is it. Piano wire or Bowden? How likely the inner cable is to run dry depends on whether the cable is covered with something that will hold oil or flowing grease, as well as keeping water out and if it's Teflon lined. A small oiler clamped over the cable somewhere that accesses a small hole works fine if you can inject a bit of oil or light grease. If you can remove it easily and hang it vertically oil applied at the top will slowly drain through it, especially if you coil some rubber sheet around it to form a funnel for the oil. Nev

Can you explain what Bowden type is like? Mine appears to be a cable within a woven outer casing also steel. I have used wd40 but it seems to take any grit with it to the lowest point and gets gunky there rather than let grit out through the woven outer. Warm day no problem..cool morning..not so good.

 

 

[Bruce Tuncks]

The WD40 dry teflon spray is nothing like the WD40 you are confusing it with.

 

Not your fault, the name is very confusing.

 

 

[facthunter]

"Bowden" is a term used for the push pull, heavy constructed set up on Jabiru controls but it's originally a trade name for a firm in England that made controls and cables for motorcycles that were used world wide. One other type is coiled wire outer with a piano wire inner which is an early form of double action (push, pull) . The "normal" Bowden has a braided wire inner that operates in tension only, usually utilising a spring for return function. Once this type "frays" it has to be replaced as it may jamb or bind up. The piano wire type unless covered with canvas/ rubber outer shield was hard to lubricate and prone to getting rust and dust and doesn't like sharp bends. Nev