Charles Andrews wrote:
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> (snip) But note this: I have a 1972 Follis with the "open C" stamped quick releases on the set of original Nuovo Tipo hubs, but the shifters have the conventional closed C. All are the original parts. It appears both dies might have been used simultaneously for awhile at least, well into the 70s.
Maybe a clarification on how small companies manufacture parts: my understanding is that Campagnolo in years past would set up their tooling to manufacture a part, make as many as they thought they would need and then reset their tooling to make the next part, and make as many as they thought they would need.
Also note for future scholars... it is very easy for a bike to be represented as _totally_ original and to have had missed-matched batches of parts substituted at some point between the manufacture, wherehouse, distributor, shop and customer.
Chuck Schmidt
South Pasadena, California
it hit the 90s here today