Re: [Classicrendezvous] Heliocomatic "Innards"......

(Example: Framebuilders:Rene Herse)

Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 13:01:59 -0500
From: Jerry & Liz Moos <moos@penn.com>
To: DTSHIFTER@aol.com
CC: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [Classicrendezvous] Heliocomatic "Innards"......
References: <79.bf746f2.273edb66@aol.com>


Even the inconsistencies are inconsistent. I measured three "sealed" Helicomatics and three nonsealed ones and they all have 16mm locknuts

Rehards,

Jerry Moos

DTSHIFTER@aol.com wrote:
> Afternoon Folks,
>
> All this talk about Helios prompted me to go into the shop and dissamble the
> three which I own: (2) are probably the "highest" end Helios, and the other
> is low-mid grade: And the results are: The high end hubs have 3/16" brngs
> on both sides!! The lower end hubs have 5/32" both sides! They also have
> totally different sizes of lock nuts (16mm vs. 18mm) - nothing standard about
> the French! BTW, the high end hubs utilize the "Sealed Mechanism" device
> which was recently brought up in a discussion.
>
> Now for Galli: I have a set of Galli Pros/Comps(?) on a Marinoni and find no
> reference to Simplex (as I easily can with Gipiemme). In addition, I have
> many Simplex derailleurs, and can really see no similarity to what they have
> constructed vis-a-vis the Galli product............The "search" continues!
>
> Chuck Brooks
> Malta (Raining outside today,and yesterday, and tomorrow??)NY