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@TerrXL
Hey everyone.
I recently got my hands on a nice vintagey bike with down tube shifters.
I moved the shifters up to the quill stem and attached a double band-on cable stop where the shifters used to be to make shifting less of a hassle.
At first all seemed well but when I began the process of 'stretching' the cables I discovered that the cable housing for the front mech cable was being stripped apart by the cable stop attached to the shifters. The hole on the stop was just large enough to grip the polymer outer on the housing and strip it away from the metal casing within. Here are a couple of pictures to illustrate the problem:
Seems to be isolated on the front mech shifter.
Here you can see that the cable on the left has substantially less room to maneuver as a result.
I placed a small square washer between the cable and the stop on the shifter to try and remedy this but it doesn't seem to have helped. Does this seem like a logical idea? Do I just need something smaller to make this work?