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Old 09-02-2013, 08:43 AM
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Default Guitar string to fish wires internally!

Just thought I'd share, I used a guitar string to fish my wires through my bars and it worked well. Just the right amount of give and play - and cheap. Just make sure to use lots of electrical tape, I wrapped about a foot of tape around the string and wires. I used the low e string. Bass strings might work even better.

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been using them a long time like that.D or G works better for Z-bars and other sharp corner bars by the way.
 
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Piece of string and a shop vac works real well also.
 
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Piece of string and a shop vac works real well also.
This is the method I've used. Always works, but the guitar string idea isn't bad either.
 
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Been using a old throttle cable , the little ball lets it round those sharp corners better .
 
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been using them a long time like that.D or G works better for Z-bars and other sharp corner bars by the way.
I've used guitar strings before but didn't have much luck with a G string. Too limp and some of them smell funny.
 
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They can get to be an off color too.
 
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I don't play guitar. Small diameter chain (along with gravity) works exceptionally well.
 
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I don't play guitar. Small diameter chain (along with gravity) works exceptionally well.
Thats a good idea if I was smart enough to remember to fish BEFORE putting the bars on
 
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Dogtag type ball chain works awesome too , but guitar strings "sounds" great too !
 
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