{"id":2435,"date":"2013-11-24T08:04:52","date_gmt":"2013-11-24T06:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/?p=2435"},"modified":"2019-12-01T23:30:09","modified_gmt":"2019-12-01T21:30:09","slug":"cable-control-grommets-product-tip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/?p=2435","title":{"rendered":"Cable control &#8211; grommets [product tip]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The triple swivel ball connector by Hosmer usually contains a grommet, but over years or decades one of these may wear down.<\/p>\n<p>Use rubbers, chewing gum or what?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Here is what I found out:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hosmer tags these <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.ch\/search?q=&quot;Rubber+Replacement+Grommet+C759&quot;\">&#8220;50448 Rubber Replacement Grommet C759&#8221;<\/a>. You probably might have to go through your prosthetist to get them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>I found to be able to easily use relatively cheap grommets by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brimal.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brimal Components<\/a>, product \/ item number <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.ch\/search?q=brimal+componnts+cb800\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;CB800&#8221;, description &#8220;cable grommet 3,2mm&#8221;<\/a>. They also sell them via their eBay store.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I slide them over the cable from the tiny end, not over the ball end. When I find myself without replacement grommets, I usually can round up some plasticine or otherwise sticky mass that is easy to deform and that stays in place, to temporarily fix the ball connector in place.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/WP_20131123_23_20_58_Pro.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2437\" src=\"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/WP_20131123_23_20_58_Pro-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"WP_20131123_23_20_58_Pro\" width=\"604\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/WP_20131123_23_20_58_Pro-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/WP_20131123_23_20_58_Pro-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/WP_20131123_23_20_58_Pro.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=swisswuff\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-size=\"large\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The triple swivel ball connector by Hosmer usually contains a grommet, but over years or decades one of these may wear down. Use rubbers, chewing gum or what?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cable","category-prosthetics","wpcat-5-id","wpcat-8-id"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 08:29:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2435"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10673,"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435\/revisions\/10673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}