Threading cables through frames - how much would you pay for an easy solution?

[Globalti]

Obviously the source is a secret *cough* because it's taken me three weeks to find a supplier but....

If I could supply you with a 1 metre length of a thin bendy metal tube, through which you could pass gear and brake cables to make threading them through frames a 1 minute job, how much would you be prepared to pay?

£10.00 posted UK?

 

[Globalti]

Er... you just poke and wriggle it through! A small bend in the end makes it easy to manouver it through the hole at the other end, you then just push your cable though and withdraw the tube. Job done in a minute.

 

[Mr Haematocrit]

Do you mean things like the bendy rods you get in place of brake cables when you buy a new frame?... I just ask my lbs for them when I need them

 

[HLaB]

Amazingly Ive never despite having an internally routed frame but I read one guide that seemed simple enough; you use the old outer as a guide for the new inner, then remove the old outer and use the new inner as a guide for the new outer.

 

[Globalti]

That's another way of doing it.

 

[andytheflyer]

You should try threading the thin wire control cables along model aeroplane fuselages then. Same problem, similar distances, but far more obstructions along the way. Sometimes I devote a whole evening to that job - and then only after a deep breath and a calming Islay malt first. HLaB's method is the way to go.