Replacing grommets

[Clyde Hollinger]

JIMRPT@aol.com wrote:
> 
> Tom, Clyde;
>  An experiment I always think of "after" I have replaced a set of grommets:
>   As Clyde suggested, just squeeze the old ones off and in the new grommet cut
> through one side, slide it on the wire and when putting the wire/grommet back
> in the fork make sure that the slice is in the rear................should stay
> just fine and if it worked it certainly would save regulating time.
>   I've never tried this but it seems like it would work just fine as the fit
> of the gromett is a pressure fit.  Like I said, I always think of this "after"
> I have replaced a set.
> Whaca Think ?
>  Jim Bryant (FL)

Jim:

You wanna know whaca think?  :-/  I actually thought of this before, but
being the reticent type I didn't have the courage to mention it.  I
might try a couple in the nether reaches of the keyboard and see what I
think, and on the basis of that try more or less.

Clyde Hollinger