[CR]Is it Campy, or is it Milspec, ?

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Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 10:55:42 -0800 (PST)
From: "Tom Dalton" <tom_s_dalton@yahoo.com>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
In-Reply-To: <3C5ECF35.DF18F13B@ventoux.com>
Subject: [CR]Is it Campy, or is it Milspec, ?

I have sometimes wondered how many of the zillions of washers, fasteners, rivets, springs, bushings, bearings, cables, etc. in Campy products are ordered straight out of suppliers' product catalogs, how many are custom spec'd, and how many are made in-house. I've also wondered if certain parts weren't sourced from multiple vendors over time or even multiple vendors simultateously. Look hard at some of those little parts and soon no two look the same. I think about strange things I guess.

Oh yeah, this reads like a statement, but I guess it's a question for the list. Any ideas?

Tom Dalton


>
> Tom Dalton wrote:
> >
> > I was talking to (pestering) a memeber of the
> Campy
> > travelling circus (Either Bill Woodul or John
> Sipay)
> > at the National Capitol Open in 1987. He saw my
> shiny
> > new retrofrictions and unscrewed them to check the
> > assembly. The washers were "concave-together" and
> he
> > seemed satisfied / surprised that I had "got it
> > right," despite what the directions depicted. It
> > seemed like he was on a mission to remedy the
> results
> > of the incorrectly published diagram, one bike at
> a
> > time.
> >
> > When I first had the levers, I set them up with
> the
> > washers nested. As I recall, the motion of the
> > shifter wasn't any different, it was just easier
> to
> > get the tension correct when assembled the other
> way.
> > They do work fine either way. When you think
> about it
> > though why wouldn't campy have just used one
> really
> > thick spring washer unless they wanted them to
> flex
> > relative to one another?
> >
> > Tom Dalton

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