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Cable End stuck in Ultegra Shifter

  • 12-03-2014 6:31pm
    #1
    Inquitus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,763 ✭✭✭✭


    I was cycling home and the cable end came off in the Shifter. The lad in the LBS was able to replace the cable, and didn't find the end. I got halfway home and then couldn't shift down, I am fairly certain the end is still stuck inside the Shifter. Any ideas?


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  • #2
    Inquitus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,763 ✭✭✭✭Inquitus


    Internet seems to think this is a decidedly poor turn of events with limited hope of retrieval :(


  • #3
    amberhues
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6 ✭amberhues


    Same happened me recently on 105 shifter. Took it in to Cycle Super Store. The guy in the work shop nodded and said 'Give me 5 mins'.. And yep, he was back out to me in 5 mins with shifter freed... Can't tell you what he did - but seems like it wasn't that hard to sort..


  • #4
    niceonetom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,833 ✭✭✭niceonetom


    Same thing happened to my partner's old DA shifter - the head of the cable was trapped somewhere inside and jamming things up. Shimano shifters are not designed to be taken apart (more accurately they're designed to explode in a shower of springs and cogs if you do attempt to take them apart) but, seeing as it's probably a write-off either way, you may as well attempt some micro surgery.

    I eventually got the cable-head out after some limited disassembly and a great deal of patient fettling with a needle-nose pliers and tweezers.


  • #5
    Inquitus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,763 ✭✭✭✭Inquitus


    amberhues wrote: »
    Same happened me recently on 105 shifter. Took it in to Cycle Super Store. The guy in the work shop nodded and said 'Give me 5 mins'.. And yep, he was back out to me in 5 mins with shifter freed... Can't tell you what he did - but seems like it wasn't that hard to sort..

    I think if the cable end is sat in Situ its prob not the end of the world, mine was already MIA in the mechanism somewhere :(


  • #6
    midonogh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 295 ✭✭midonogh


    I had the same problem with a 6600 shifter. The answer is to drill a small hole at precisely the correct spot on the side of the shifter and the cable end dropped out. Terence in TMG in Skerries can do it, its a bit of a party piece for him!


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  • #7
    Inquitus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,763 ✭✭✭✭Inquitus


    midonogh wrote: »
    I had the same problem with a 6600 shifter. The answer is to drill a small hole at precisely the correct spot on the side of the shifter and the cable end dropped out. Terence in TMG in Skerries can do it, its a bit of a party piece for him!

    Thanks will pop out tomorrow!


  • #8
    07Lapierre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,370 ✭✭✭07Lapierre


    Prevention is better than cure... Replace gear cables annually.


  • #9
    Inquitus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,763 ✭✭✭✭Inquitus


    07Lapierre wrote: »
    Prevention is better than cure... Replace gear cables annually.

    Tis true, and also alot cheaper! I did get my bike serviced in the LBS at the start of Jan, would have thought that new cables would have been part of the job.


  • #10
    07Lapierre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,370 ✭✭✭07Lapierre


    Inquitus wrote: »
    Tis true, and also alot cheaper! I did get my bike serviced in the LBS at the start of Jan, would have thought that new cables would have been part of the job.

    Shops would normally just adjust cable tension and check gear shifting as part of a service. Service your own bike from now on;)


  • #11
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,055 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    07Lapierre wrote: »
    Prevention is better than cure... Replace gear cables annually.
    Mine usually snap a couple of times annually! Had to come back from the Sally Gap one day with just 10th and 20th gear. I felt like Bernard Hinault.


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  • #12
    07Lapierre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,370 ✭✭✭07Lapierre


    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    Mine usually snap a couple of times annually! Had to come back from the Sally Gap one day with just 10th and 20th gear. I felt like Bernard Hinault.
    Haven't had a cable snap in years...something not right with your setup if there snapping that frequently.


  • #13
    Cond0r
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 513 ✭✭✭Cond0r


    Same thing happened to me a while back. About an hour's worth of tinkering with a small screwdriver, pliers, and paper clip and I eventually got it out.

    First thing to do is to take out the new cable, then via a series of shifting up and down I could eventually see the old cable end and began fiddling to get it out.


  • #14
    joxerjohn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 396 ✭✭joxerjohn


    Some limited un assembley is possible. See the exploded diagram on shimano techdocs site for overview of how to proceed. Little chance of sorfing it, if the shifter is on the bike so I would suggest taking the shifter off first and then proceeding from there.

    And as my Dad used to advise "don't force it" .. as you most probably will break it if you do. There were many time I should have heeded the advice.


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