Ideas on securing internal Di2 wires

[zank]

Anybody doing anything clever to secure the internal Di2 wires and the junction box in order to keep the rattling at bay?

[progetto]

Mike,
Just been using plenty of cable ties.
Bill

[pruckelshaus]

Stuff a piece of foam in the tube?

[Eric Estlund]

That would be an open cell wire isolation pad.

[pruckelshaus]

That would be an open cell wire isolation pad.

So THAT's how you sell a dime's worth of foam for $30! I never was good at marketingspeak.

Anyway, BITD when I was working at a tri shop that had a lot of Zipp and Kestrel bikes with internal routing go through, I would cut the "tits" off of eggshell type packing foam, tie a loop of dental floss (for retrieval, and dental floss is fabulously strong....I used to use it for repairing sewups) around it, and shove the foam into the tube that needed quieting with either a spoke or a length of brake cable housing. Come time for maintenance or cable replacement, pull on the dental floss end, remove the foam, and proceed.

I would do the same thing with my seatpost; the foam acted as a plug, and I would keep a couple of dollar bills and some other odds and ends (tire lever and no-glue patches, usually) in case of emergency.

Pete

[zank]

Good stuff. Thanks, fellas!

[b.jenks]

I can tell you Calfee uses zip-ties every few inches and then leaves them untrimmed. The extra length curled up inside the tubes limits rattling.