[CR]How long DID French threads last, anyway?

(Example: Production Builders:Teledyne)

From: "Russ Fitzgerald" <rfitzger@emeraldis.com>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 21:33:56 -0500
Subject: [CR]How long DID French threads last, anyway?

I outsmarted myself today. I felt so good about finding a nice rear wheel with a Campy Nuovo Record hub, complete with skewer. I got home and dug out the cone wrenches and discovered, hey, it's a 1984! Then I wiped the grime off and discovered - it's French threaded. Hmmm.

It's an interesting wheel, for me. Laced up with Wheelsmith stainless spokes to a Mavic GEL 330 ... but French thread? I thought that was gone by 1982 ...

Russ Fitzgerald
Greenwood SC
rfitzger@emeraldis.com
http://www.emeraldis.com/~rfitzger