--- In [email protected], Martin Phillips <mar...@...> wrote: > > dvdob...@... wrote: > > > > > There's a section in the FAQs about cables, etc, on the Teleflex (Owners of > > Morse) via http://tinyurl.com/morsecables > > > > Not very useful advice in the FAQ. All appeared normal externally, no > slack or free play. The cable (I hadn't realised these were solid > cables, not stranded) had just parted company from the rod at the end. > Looks like a clean fracture. Don't think there would be excessive > flexing (or, indeed, any flexing of note) with the way the cable was and > is installed. > > Wassail! > > -- > Martin Phillips > mar...@... >
>From my experience that is the most common point of failure. I think its to do >with the way the stainless outer sleeve fits into a rubber "seal" at the end >of the cable proper and that joint allows some flexibility. Whatever way you >look a it the levers on the engine, gearbox & control are short so as the >cable operates the levers will move the end of the cable through an arc. I >found that it was normally the end of the cable that was normally fully >extended that tended to snap. Tony Brooks
