Cable Housing Liner Quandary
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Hi all.
I have a few 90's era bikes I'm reconditioning and most of them have some kind of tubing that seems to be cable housing liner as best as I can tell.
The different bikes use them for different things, none of which is lining cable housing.
Mostly they are just there as cable protectors between guides but the Kona Hahannah uses it to route the rear brake cable through a small hole in the seatpost clamp (this is how it came brand new).
Some of these liners are black and some are translucent/whitish but they all seem to be identical in outside diameter which I assumed was 3 mm since that's all I'm able to find.
Anyway, I recently purchased the black Jagwire 3mm housing liner and also some translucent 3 mm stuff on amazon branded Yuauy.
They are both very nice products and seem to also be identical to each other in terms of OD, ID, and wall thickness.
The problem is, the old stuff that was put on these bikes new is a bit different and in small but significant ways from the new.
They seem to be ever so slightly larger in OD (like maybe 3.2 mm) and they seem stiffer so I assume unless its just age that the walls are thicker too but it's the OD part thats bothersome.
That fraction of mm really makes a difference in fit. The new stuff is just a touch sloppy in the guides. My guides are double ended. One side takes standard 5mm endcaps and the other side is percfectly sized for these liner tubes to fit in like gloves-very sweet.
Old ones fit perfect, new ones are just a bit sloppy.
Ultimately I think what I bought will work but the OCD in me is really irritated by this.
Has anyone else noticed this over the years?
And are there any other housing liner products out there that people like?
I've searched and searched and found very little apart from the 2 I already bought and don't love.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks all.
I have a few 90's era bikes I'm reconditioning and most of them have some kind of tubing that seems to be cable housing liner as best as I can tell.
The different bikes use them for different things, none of which is lining cable housing.
Mostly they are just there as cable protectors between guides but the Kona Hahannah uses it to route the rear brake cable through a small hole in the seatpost clamp (this is how it came brand new).
Some of these liners are black and some are translucent/whitish but they all seem to be identical in outside diameter which I assumed was 3 mm since that's all I'm able to find.
Anyway, I recently purchased the black Jagwire 3mm housing liner and also some translucent 3 mm stuff on amazon branded Yuauy.
They are both very nice products and seem to also be identical to each other in terms of OD, ID, and wall thickness.
The problem is, the old stuff that was put on these bikes new is a bit different and in small but significant ways from the new.
They seem to be ever so slightly larger in OD (like maybe 3.2 mm) and they seem stiffer so I assume unless its just age that the walls are thicker too but it's the OD part thats bothersome.
That fraction of mm really makes a difference in fit. The new stuff is just a touch sloppy in the guides. My guides are double ended. One side takes standard 5mm endcaps and the other side is percfectly sized for these liner tubes to fit in like gloves-very sweet.
Old ones fit perfect, new ones are just a bit sloppy.
Ultimately I think what I bought will work but the OCD in me is really irritated by this.
Has anyone else noticed this over the years?
And are there any other housing liner products out there that people like?
I've searched and searched and found very little apart from the 2 I already bought and don't love.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks all.