I'm looking and it looks like delrin to me--badly weathered delrin, but delrin all the same. You may be right, but I don't think I would bid on that sucker until I examined it in person to ascertain that it really was metal. Not that I have urge to buy one.
Regards,
jjt
>From: Brandon Ives <monkeylad@mac.com>
>To: "jack taylor" <wayofftheback@hotmail.com>, lberg@ventoux.com,
>classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
>Subject: [CR]Re: What's so unusual about this Simplex front derailleur?
>Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 16:56:51 -0700
>
>At 6:17 PM -0500 6/19/02, jack taylor wrote:
>>Woo, forgot to post that url:
>>
>>http://ebay.com/<blah>
>>
>>Lee,
>>
>>I am not sure that the derailleur has an uusual clamp--it looks like a
>>delrin body and standard clamp.
>
>Nope that's an alloy body. If you look at the nicks in the body and the
>discoloration of the body is the same front and back. Plastic discolors
>differently than plastic. This one also has L..J.Simplex cast into the
>body which I think (and could easily be wrong) the L.J. was dropped on the
>plastic bodies.
>enjoy,
>Brandon"monkeyman"Ives
>SB, CA