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Re: Speedo Cable

Post by macplaxton » 04 Mar 2013 02:50 pm

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Re: Speedo Cable

Post by mac » 04 Mar 2013 02:56 pm

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Re: Speedo Cable

Post by macplaxton » 04 Mar 2013 03:03 pm

It's a visual "grunt" of approval. Saves grumbling about lack of interest... :wink:
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Re: Speedo Cable

Post by Chris_C » 04 Mar 2013 06:14 pm

Am I the only one who thinks a custom part for less than £40 posted is cheap?!

Help all ye who think the new Leo centre caps will be coming with the cornflakes :?

I send out parts with significantly less complicated weekly for work and none are that cheap.

Yes, it's £40. But you try making one for less.
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Re: Speedo Cable

Post by SteveP » 09 Mar 2013 07:11 pm

Chris_C wrote:Am I the only one who thinks a custom part for less than £40 posted is cheap?!
Nope!
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Re: Speedo Cable

Post by Speedy88 » 09 Mar 2013 09:45 pm

I'd pay it :)
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Re: Speedo Cable

Post by volvomania » 11 Mar 2013 10:21 am

SteveP wrote:
Chris_C wrote:Am I the only one who thinks a custom part for less than £40 posted is cheap?!
Nope!
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Re: Speedo Cable

Post by macplaxton » 04 Sep 2014 09:29 pm

Just digging this up as I've just fitted one of their Smiths cables.

Rating: 4/5

I've spent quite a bit time swearing at the wheel end of things. Update with some (perhaps lousy) pics within the next few days. Need some grub now.

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Re: Speedo Cable

Post by classicswede » 06 Sep 2014 07:51 pm

Same problems as John with the square end with the wrong size/shape?
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Re: Speedo Cable

Post by macplaxton » 06 Sep 2014 08:13 pm

Not quite. The square is perfectly square. It'll slide half way down the outer end of the drive tube, but not the inner half. There's only a bawhair in it, but it did mean fishing out the Dremel to just take a 1/4 of a bawhair off each side, to make it slide all the way through from the tight side. If the square hole in the drive tube was finished perfectly end-to-end, then I wouldn't of had the issue and it would have been a perfect sliding fit.
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