Re: [CR]Campagnolo front derailleur question

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Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 13:18:05 -0700
From: "Chuck Schmidt" <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]Campagnolo front derailleur question
References: <l03130300b968a2770c75@[216.144.8.100]>


Tom Hayes wrote:
>
> I have a Campagnolo record front derailleur that appears different than
> others I have seen. It is of the sixties variety with the armmature and
> the cable stop.
>
> It appears the same as others that I have seen, except the cages are held
> together in the back with a rivet instead of a screw, similar to the
> Valentino. The cages are the same as Nouvo Record. And the hole does not
> appear to have been altered.
>
> Is this the way in which these particular derailleurs appeared, or were
> there a couple of versions of this specific derailleur, and this happens to
> be one of them?

I have one too. Just a strange, short lived variation in my opinion.

The rivet instead of the screw is a really bad idea since you can't take the derailleur of the bike without breaking the chain apart. The one change Campagnolo made that was nice was to put a slot in the cable housing stop on the armature so you wouldn't have to remove the cable end to remove the derailleur.

I have also seen brazed on rear derailleur cable housing stops on early 50s Bianchis that are slotted too.

Chuck Schmidt
SoPas, SoCal