[Closed] Brand X Dropper lever with no grub screw installation

I just got a one of those, 27.2 came with the 2x lever, it had the grub screw with it. So I think just sounds like yours is missing the grub screw(you maybe just not noticed it and dropped it, it is tiny).. But maybe email and ask for one if not?

Otherwise you need to figure out how to grip the cable somehow, no idea tbh, nothing obvious springs to mind other then trying a small nut and bolt, prodtruding either side so you can tighten enough to grip the cable? Not sure if that'd be enough though.

On my 3 brand x droppers, the head end of the cable goes into the lever, so no cable clamp is needed. Indeed, there is not grub screw or clamping on any of the levers.

Other end is connected to dropper actuator with a wee barrel grub screw thingy, tension is created by ensuring correct cable/outer length, and adjusted with barrel adjuster on the lever end.

Again, no cable clamping needed at lever end (I don’t use the BX levers, I use either a command post lever, or a wolf tooth lever, but the above info is correct for my bikes - just nipped down to garage to check and everyfink)

I have the brand x stealth on one bike(which has the barrel clamp at post end. However my non stealth post on my hardtail you clamp the cable end at lever. It’s tricky but it feeds through and round and it tightens with a tiny grub screw.

Mine are as described by Big Scot. Grub screw at post end.

The internal brand x has the head of the cable in the remote end, the external one has the head in the post end iirc.

The replacement external one I got last Saturday came with a 1x lever it and the teeny tiny grub screw was loose in the bag of bits. I nearly missed it cos it dropped onto the bench in the shed when I emptied the bag. The one it replaced was an external 2x type and I [i]think[/i] that was loose in the bag too. If you look at the nipple there's a hex at one end and a female thread in the other, that's where the grub screw goes.

edit- PM me your address if you're stuck, I've got a spare nipple (Scaramanga!) + screw (pffft!) you can have.

Thanks for your nipple offer (ROFL - do people still say that?) kayla1. But I have scanned the route of the wire several times and compared it with the picture in the instructions and there is no place for a grub screw.

Either this is is new design (there was a hint of that in another thread), or I have the one where they forgot to machine the hole and didn't pick it up when they came to put in the grub screws, which I can't believe. I reckon/hope there is some cunning order of assembly or twist that is needed to get it working.

I've also posted the question on CRC, which seems to be home of Brand-X

Grub screw goes into a tiny easily-lost barrel, barrel goes into the actuator at the bottom of the post.

Oldnpastit - not on mine, the cable nipple hooks on the bottom of the seatpost.

It did make me wonder if my lever was designed to hold the nipple end of the cable, but I don't think so, because it has a slot for the excess cable that is not machined to hold a little cylinder.

I had the same issue. There are 'old' and 'new' versions of the lever. I bought one from crc, and despite the correct pictures on the Web site, I was sent the old version (clamp at the post end), but strangely it came with the barrel nipple thingy in the bag but nowhere to fit it.

I'd even asked crc online to confirm it was the new version, which they did, but it wasn't.

I sent it back and bought a bontrager lever online, which works very well.

Op, any chance of posting some close up pics of the lever?

Older droppers had the cable grub screw at the post,new ones have the clamp at the lever.

That said, I've not used the 2x lever....

Problem solved!
I also had a 1x lever that came with the post. That had two barrels (that's what I'll call the little cylinders) that go in the lever.
One has a cylinder cut out - which would fit a cable nipple
One has a grub screw in it - to clamp the cable

My 2x post came with two of the first type. Presumably a packing error. But one that left me frustrated for a night and a day... I'm glad to say the barrel with the grub screw from the 1x fit the 2x lever and I am now up and running, or more literally up and downing.

So this is actually quite a clever design of lever to be compatible with posts that have the cable in either direction, just spoiled in my case by a packing error.

I have had 2 170s delivered in the past couple of weeks to replace Command posts just to get the extra drop on Abigales bikes. I spoke to CRC who confirmed that the bottom of the seat post can take a cable end or the barrel so that people can use different levers and we wanted to keep using the Command levers.
However their new lever would only accept a barrel end and not a cable end.
We just took the barrel out of the bottom of the Command post and pushed it into the new one. The barrels look identical apart from colour
I've just opened the box and the bits confirm this.
Pic of the instructions may help explain which I've taken but Flikr is down for the moment

Hi,

Does anyone have a spare grub screw for securing the cable in the shifter? Or a link to where I can buy one?

Thanks

Hi mate, they can be made from those electrical junction boxes you buy in diy places etc, bit of work involved (I've never done it, mind) or they can be bought online.... But I can't find the thread on here with the link to eBay. Can't remember what they are called either!

Free bump anyway...

EDIT: Or buy a lever that secures the cable at the lever end. The Bonty one etc etc.