oiling cables.

[Tom85]

What oil would be best to use to oil the clutch cable? Would wd40 work or would it cause damage?

[The Artist]

wd40 won't damage it but it is not really a proper lubricant.

3 in 1 or similar would be better. Any light oil really.

[neil.]

I've always used 3-in-1 silicone spray lube with one of these cable oilers:

https://www.3-in-one.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/3in1-silicone-spray.jpg

https://www.dirtbikebitz.com/images/products/rfx/1536cableoiler.jpg

[Benson_JV]

I just use WD40.
Does the job.
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[Johnser]

some oils can damage nylon lined cables. check yours before lubing.

I use a mix of 2-stoke and white spirit. keep squirting it in with a cable oiler until it comes out the other end without being tainted with crap. I then whirl the cable round my head (not next to the conservatory) to fling out excess oil if cable is off the bike. if still in place, you will get some seepage.

[orac]

i use silkolene silkopen, its leaves a graphite film behind which helps the cable last that bit longer between lube ups

[Fizzer Thou]

I have owned a hydraulic cable oiler for many years and find it preferable to the one shown above as it forces any lubricant through the cable that you choose to utilise.

For the spray cable oiler I use GT85,but for the hydraulic oiler I use a mix of 3-1 oil with some copaslip.For some reason this works really well,often bringing old and tired cables back to life.I recently used this on a friends control cables and she was surprised by how much better they felt.
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[Lone-Wolf]

[temeluchus]

chain wax spray makes a good cable lube.
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[tahrey]

I just squirt general-purpose bicycle cable lube into the cut-out on the adjuster nut and keep pumping the lever until it moves smoothly again instead of feeling stiff and sticky. I figure the cable drags some oil with it, leaves it on the inside of the guide, comes back and picks up more as I drip it on, and so on and so forth, with gravity doing the rest.

But that's because I'm a lazy bastard

I did use the same gear oil that I do for my chain at first, but I think it's a bit too thick to make much headway down the cable run. Certainly not without being heated.

(Hmm, there's an idea ... heat up some soft wax and pour it through? The stuff you'd use on sledge runners, like...)

[Quornholio]