I'm going to stick your neck out and say no.
My MiniMax Flight manual recommends 'lubricate or service' every 25 hours, 'Inspect' every 100 hours and replace the cables after 400 hours of flight, it doesn't say anything about an age life.
If you follow the Flight Manual's maintenance regime *you* might take off and fly the first flight hour with badly corroded cables - because of the environmental conditions the aircraft has been stored in over the last 30 years.
Or, you might have stored the aircraft in perfectly benign conditions, and had a good 'look' at them before flying.
BTW, the UK MiniMaxs have doubled-up cables for the elevator.
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