It will be much easier since I haven't yet
>  installed the cable

Guys,

This is getting way too complicated.  Just go to your local hobby store and buy a tube of powdered graphite.  When you're ready to assemble pour half down each tube and chase it down with the cables. Then forget about it.

Dry beats wet (as previously killed).

Larry Henney
LNC2

PS:  Back when we were building LNC2s each rudder cable tube made two 90 degree turns to get around the nose gear tunnel.  "Stiffness"  is quite an over statement.

BTW, at the same time we had to walk to school in the snow and it was all up hill (both ways!).

And another thing (since I have so much free time), The Internet had'nt even been invented back then.  How did we ever do it?