{"id":344,"date":"2016-01-07T18:00:58","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T23:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/?p=344"},"modified":"2016-01-07T18:00:58","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T23:00:58","slug":"spiral-cable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/2016\/01\/07\/spiral-cable\/","title":{"rendered":"Spiral Cable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It may be something you&#8217;ve wondered about, or never given a second thought to. How can you have buttons on your steering wheel? Even the most basic of cars have an airbag and a horn button on the steering wheel, while some have radio and cruise control buttons too.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-350\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/2016_01_07_01.jpg\" alt=\"2016_01_07_01\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The answer is the spiral cable, also called the clock spring by some manufacturers. It&#8217;s a thin, long ribbon cable in a housing that allows one end to be attached to the steering wheel and rotate with it, pulling the rest of the cable with it, and allowing electrical connections to a rotating part. Obviously this doesn&#8217;t work for something with an unlimited number of rotations, only something with a steering wheel that turns only 4 times. You need to make sure it&#8217;s centered before you put the steering wheel on or you could break it when you turn the wheel.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-351\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/2016_01_07_02.jpg\" alt=\"2016_01_07_02\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cruise control on a used car wasn&#8217;t working, and the fix appeared to be replacing the spiral cable, and I couldn&#8217;t figure out how to get the old one out, and it just came apart, allowing me to see what&#8217;s inside and show on my blog.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Remember to follow me on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram!<\/p>\n<p>-Dan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may be something you&#8217;ve wondered about, or never given a second thought to. How can you have buttons on your steering wheel? Even the most basic of cars have an airbag and a horn button on the steering wheel, while some have radio and cruise control buttons too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-shop","tag-electrical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}