Anyone know what this part is for?
10-08-14 | 04:14 PM
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Anyone know what this part is for?
Hello all,
This is just a curiosity question. If I could I would award you big brownie points for the correct answer! The part in question is this,
There's a cable end cap or whatever you call that, so there is a sense of scale here. The parts in question are rubber pieces. I believe they came with bulk cable housing.
Thanks for reading this and I appreciate any and all responses to this question.
This is just a curiosity question. If I could I would award you big brownie points for the correct answer! The part in question is this,
There's a cable end cap or whatever you call that, so there is a sense of scale here. The parts in question are rubber pieces. I believe they came with bulk cable housing.
Thanks for reading this and I appreciate any and all responses to this question.
10-08-14 | 04:24 PM
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looks like a small awl
for opening up cable
housing ends post cut
just re read your post
and i answered wrong thinking
you meant the black thing
but the rubber things
are likely for bare cable
to avoid banging
for opening up cable
housing ends post cut
just re read your post
and i answered wrong thinking
you meant the black thing
but the rubber things
are likely for bare cable
to avoid banging
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10-08-14 | 04:29 PM
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Well the black thing too. Everything except the cable cap thing is made of rubber.
10-08-14 | 05:16 PM
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Yes.. they are to keep bare runs of cable from doing damage to your frame.
Or, alternatively silly rubber things designed to keep me occupied at stop lights as I move them from the cable stop near the seat tube where they seem to aggregate, back out over the top of tube cables to save my paint should I decide to sit on my top tube.
Or, alternatively silly rubber things designed to keep me occupied at stop lights as I move them from the cable stop near the seat tube where they seem to aggregate, back out over the top of tube cables to save my paint should I decide to sit on my top tube.
10-08-14 | 05:34 PM
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Yes.. they are to keep bare runs of cable from doing damage to your frame.
Or, alternatively silly rubber things designed to keep me occupied at stop lights as I move them from the cable stop near the seat tube where they seem to aggregate, back out over the top of tube cables to save my paint should I decide to sit on my top tube.
Or, alternatively silly rubber things designed to keep me occupied at stop lights as I move them from the cable stop near the seat tube where they seem to aggregate, back out over the top of tube cables to save my paint should I decide to sit on my top tube.
Hmmmmm........ seems like the precursor of the little black donut things that all seem to gravitate to the end of the cable opening then? I never seen these in action anywhere!
10-09-14 | 06:15 AM
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10-09-14 | 06:17 AM
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I am not certain but I think the black thing is a seal of some kind for the RD cable. Jagwire cables come with something similar but I never read the directions to see what it is for.
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10-09-14 | 08:25 AM
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The rubber things fit over the housing.. they're bumpers to put where the housing may hit the side if the frame's headtube.
2 gear & 1 brake housing =3
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10-10-14 | 12:58 PM
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Brownie points to [MENTION=159681]Bianchigirll[/MENTION] 
The black, pointy thing is a Jagwire rubber boot. It goes over nosed ferrules and is meant to keep water from running down a vertically mounted cable into the housing.
https://jagwireusa.com/images/uploads...lleur_2009.pdf
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The black, pointy thing is a Jagwire rubber boot. It goes over nosed ferrules and is meant to keep water from running down a vertically mounted cable into the housing.
https://jagwireusa.com/images/uploads...lleur_2009.pdf
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