Current Projects chat and miscellany

My solution to rattling SRAM lever:
http://www.lfgss.com/post2355674-49714.html

In the long term, I'd like to do something more elegant by putting a length of wire between the lever (in the normal cable barrel) and the lever body cable stop, but it's going to need some custom parts to allow tensioning. A short length of spoke threaded at both ends and a couple of nipples nearly works, so imagine something like that but with thinner wire and cylindrical nipples with just a screwdriver slot rather than square flats.

Shimano SLR levers (anything post about 1985) have return springs in the lever, so if they are in place and working the levers shouldn't rattle except over really severe bumps which are rattling everything else too.

I had some Shimano R400 levers on my pompino and they must have had crappy return springs as the unused one rattled like mad on anything but the smoothest tarmac. I've got some old Modolo levers on another bike and they have awesome springs - no noise at all from the unused lever.

I was thinking about a bodge to work on a lever without springs and thought about threading a small amount of brake cable through the lever with maybe 2cms sticking out the back, putting a small diameter but long spring on there (like those you get in a biro but tougher), compressing that spring and crimping a brake cable end on to hold the spring in tension. Reckon that might work?