Hey All, Over the years we've tried a variety of ways to store cable housing and we're still looking for the ideal solution. Anyone out there have a good way to store them?
Frustrated
Get a bmx wheel.
Cut 2 circles of plywood that are larger than the diameter of the wheel (but no more than that of about a 24'' or so).
Attach the wood to the wheel like spoke covers. You want them to make a channel like that of the rim.
You may attach your plywood wheel to a wall or table edge by the hub. You want it to have the ability to spin fairly freely.
To load: insert approx 1'' of housing into the valve hole of the rim. Slowly spin the wheel while guiding the housing onto the rim, into the channel formed between the two layers of plywood.
If you are still confused, contact the Bike Pirates for a picture.
Ride safe Chloé Bike Pirates
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-----Original Message----- From: Rich Points rich@communitycycles.org Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:56:01 To: The Think Tankthethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org Subject: [TheThinkTank] How are you storing cable housing?
Hey All, Over the years we've tried a variety of ways to store cable housing and we're still looking for the ideal solution. Anyone out there have a good way to store them?
Frustrated
Hey,
One of our volunteers put a couple things together that work great for us. If you go to our photos, under Busy Day, you'll see what I'm talking about. It's a combination of heavy cardboard mailing tubes for misc pieces that we reuse, and electrical conduit as a holder for wound housing. They're mounted to one of our workbenches
http://pedals2people.org/photos.aspx
liza
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Rich Points rich@communitycycles.orgwrote:
Hey All, Over the years we've tried a variety of ways to store cable housing and we're still looking for the ideal solution. Anyone out there have a good way to store them?
Frustrated
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We keep the rolls on shelves up against a partition wall. We put the roll on the shelf "backwards", so the housing comes out the back. The housing pokes through a hole in the wall, where the size is marked, there's a tape measure hanging, and a housing cutter.
-----Original Message----- From: thethinktank-bounces@bikecollectives.org [mailto:thethinktank-bounces@bikecollectives.org] On Behalf Of Rich Points Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 11:56 AM To: The Think Tank Subject: [TheThinkTank] How are you storing cable housing?
Hey All, Over the years we've tried a variety of ways to store cable housing and we're still looking for the ideal solution. Anyone out there have a good way to store them?
Frustrated
We built a "cable housing tree" out of PVC pipes for recycled housing
I cant take a picture of it right now, but we cut PVC pipes to a small, medium, large and extra large size. We then taped off one end and then zip tied them vertically around a pole in our shop.
Now, we store the cables in the tubes, and It has saved us a lot of shelf space.
We keep the new cable housing in the box it came in, next to the cable boxes.
Cheers, Carolyn
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--- On Wed, 2/17/10, Doug Franz doug@coatesvillebikeworks.org wrote:
From: Doug Franz doug@coatesvillebikeworks.org Subject: Re: [TheThinkTank] How are you storing cable housing? To: "'The Think Tank'" thethinktank@bikecollectives.org Date: Wednesday, February 17, 2010, 9:44 AM
We keep the rolls on shelves up against a partition wall. We put the roll on the shelf "backwards", so the housing comes out the back. The housing pokes through a hole in the wall, where the size is marked, there's a tape measure hanging, and a housing cutter.
-----Original Message----- From: thethinktank-bounces@bikecollectives.org [mailto:thethinktank-bounces@bikecollectives.org] On Behalf Of Rich Points Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 11:56 AM To: The Think Tank Subject: [TheThinkTank] How are you storing cable housing?
Hey All, Over the years we've tried a variety of ways to store cable housing and we're still looking for the ideal solution. Anyone out there have a good way to store them?
Frustrated
Rich, hi.
Used housing: pvc tubing
New housing: I used to work for a manufacturer, and we went through a lot of housing. Big coils of it. Used to always get tangled.
solution: put the roll under a bench, feed the end (out of the middle of the roll!) through the bench, and then through a short piece of bent stay tube on the wall - that keeps it from slipping back. People will need to know the length they need (as they can't carry the roll), which can be figured with a piece of old housing along the housing route they are doing.
--- On Wed, 2/17/10, Rich Points rich@communitycycles.org wrote:
Hey All, Over the years we've tried a variety of ways to store cable housing and we're still looking for the ideal solution. Anyone out there have a good way to store them?
Frustrated
-- Rich Points Community Cycles Executive Director http://CommunityCycles.org Rich@CommunityCycles.org 720-565-6019 (W) 303-589-0597 (C) Donate your old car to Community Cycles http://communitycycles.org/get-involved/donatecar.html
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