Joining outer gear casing

bikeit65

Has anyone every joined outer gear casing? if so how and what did you use?

crankycrank

You can join casings but I don't recommend it. If there is any sort of bend in the cable routing the two pieces tend to kink easily. There are ferrules that have two female ends for just this purpose but for the cost and effort you may as well just buy the proper length of casing and be done with it.

bikeit65

Cheers do u know the proper name for that ferrule. Where im hoping to join is on a straight bit of the outer casing

veryslowtwitch

Look for "inline cable tension adjuster" or similar.

As well as joining cable most have an integrated barrel adjuster but you may be able to find a passive version.

Works fine on straight runs as well as gentle curves.

alan

mr_evil

"Double-ended ferrule", "junction ferrule", or various other names. They are quite hard to get hold of, so I make my own by soldering together two normal nickel-plated ferrules.

cycleclinic

All that trouble to save a few pennies. Casing is pretty cheap why bodge the job.

bikeit65

Its not about saving pennies, but im fixing a bike for a neighbour and he does not want to replace the handlebar tape as its only on the bike a few months, so thought of another option

svetty

No need to replace the bar-tape, just unwind it to the shifter, fix the cable issue, rewind bar-tape and secure with electrical tape. Job done

6wheels

Bikeit65 wrote:

Its not about saving pennies, but im fixing a bike for a neighbour and he does not want to replace the handlebar tape as its only on the bike a few months, so thought of another option

This is what the Russians ( no offence, but they're renowned for making do) would do...

Get two end caps, make sure they butt up flat to each other, and use some good strong tape to make it rigid.