[CR]simplex cable routing question

(Example: Framebuilders:Pino Morroni)

Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 20:11:21 -0500
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
From: Tom Hayes <hayesbikes@mail.nls.net>
Subject: [CR]simplex cable routing question

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
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Chagrin Falls, Ohio 44023
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