-=> JASEN BETTS wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 JB> putting wet lubricant inside a cable tends to be counter-productive
 JB> as the lubricant gathers dust and the dust jams the cable. Using a dry
 JB> lubricant like graphite powder is probably better,

Today I'd use molybdimum disulfide instead, also drys.
Speedo and tach cables screwed into the instruments
and I never lost one I'd lubed.

 JB> There's a special tool tha can be used to inject lubricant into a
 JB> cable: it's sort of like a split gland that clamps over the cable and
 JB> sheath and provides a port for injecting the lubricant.

 JB> I've seen new cables that have a plastic liner in the sheath that acts
 JB> as a lubricant when the liners wear out they whole assemlby (cable
 JB> liner sheath) should be replaced.

Should have seen the day we lost the throttle cable
wide open on a 200 H.P. speed boat while towing
a disabled shrimp boat into a very tight marina.

First almost getting cut in two by the tow line
and then pulling off the cover and manually
opening the trottle and operating the advance by ear
with my hand about an inch from the spinning geared flywheel
in the chop in the Gulf of Mexico.

Steve and Phil complained about the cost of a new throttle
cable so I said I'd splice it back together for them.
Neither believed that would work and I'd some doubts myself but
I managed to do it slick enough it did work :-)
 
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