Tom, you need a Simplex downtube cable guide. You need to run cable housing from the front der. cable guide, around the back of the seat tube and stopping at the front derailleur. The plastic-ended Simplex cable guides (steel clamp) are everywhere. Check with your local "old" shop and you should strike gold. If you come up empty, drop me a line and send you some. The all steel ones are more rare and are usually expensive if you find one. Hang on to that Huret guide though, they are pretty cool. I've got one myself.
Don Andersen Columbia, MD
>This all comes from lack of memory: in December I took apart a PX-10 with a
>Simplex front derailleur. I starting putting everything back together, and
>the last item was the derailleur cable to the front. The securing bolt for
>the cable is situated to the right of the seattube and on the front of the
>derailleur. The cable is routed through huret downtube (near the bottom
>bracket) cable guides. In order to secure the cable, it needs to run
>behind the seattube, under the derailleur, across the front of the
>derailleur, causing it rubs against the seattube, and putting sharp kinks
>in it where it crosses the front of the cable. What am I doing wrong?
>Does it require cable housing from the derailleur guides to the securing
>bolt (though there is no cable housing stop)? Is there a hole someplace on
>the derailleur that I'm missing where the cable feeds through and then is
>bolted?
>
>I know it worked when I took it apart last december, and I certainly don't
>remember anything distinctive about it when it was taken apart?
>
>Guidance please.
>
>Tom
>
>Tom Hayes
>18585 Munn Road
>Chagrin Falls, Ohio 44023
>hayesbikes@nls.net
>hayes@jcu.edu