RE350WD/CO Posted September 16, 2012 Share Posted September 16, 2012 Which cable ties are correct for 1942 WD/CO, rubber or ally? Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferrettkitt Posted September 17, 2012 Share Posted September 17, 2012 Which cable ties are correct for 1942 WD/CO, rubber or ally? Cheers You might be better putting up some pictures of the items that you are looking for. When I first read the title I was thinking plastic cable ties that you can buy at you're local car spares store for holding wheel trims on to wheels Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RE350WD/CO Posted September 17, 2012 Author Share Posted September 17, 2012 Et Voila! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wdbikemad Posted September 17, 2012 Share Posted September 17, 2012 Rubber were certainly used up to 42 when shortages began to bite, but stocks were used up so some overlap....... Prior to then, and in parallel, many manufacturers also used sprung steel clips to hold anything up to 3-4 cables and wires in various sizes....these were often a Lucas-made item and very similar to bicycle items from the period....... The aluminium ties ("Strip, aluminium, pliable") were introduced around 43-44........... You can buy repro rubber and aluminium ties, but the sprung steel clips are harder to source and not to my knowledge reproduced at present..........best try old bicycle shops....you never know....:-D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Posted September 17, 2012 Share Posted September 17, 2012 If you do go for rubber ties check them very carefully, the ones I bought recently seemed to made of cheese - snapped as soon as I put any pressure on them. There are some rubbish ones around _- I bought some good ones from George Prew (?) Goldstar specialist which were excellent at the Stafford Classic bike show. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Posted September 18, 2012 Share Posted September 18, 2012 Yes the proper ones are moulded from rubber and have a raised up portion at the 'T' end. The other cheap crap are just stamped out of sheet neoprene and will snap as soon as you look at them.......Britbits sell the good ones also. Ron Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
79x100 Posted September 18, 2012 Share Posted September 18, 2012 Jiri Horice at Vintage Replica makes repros of a number of the spring steel type. He had them on his stand at Netley Marsh and they're indistinguishable from OE (although they will need black enamelling). http://www.vintage-replica.cz/294.E.htm Early-war Nortons had quite a lot of these and in the few places where there wasn't one suitable, they appear to have used black cloth tape. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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