Quoth Chris Beyer:
>I know this is a longshot, but......................I have a Sturmey-Archer
>S5 hub which came to me with the wrong left-hand shift thingie. I have the
>version with the plain-ended pin, so I need the ugly fabricated shift
>quadrant instead of the machined piece. Either that, or I need the shift
>pin with the outer end like a nailhead.
Back in the day, I never used the actual Sturmey-Archer pushrods. There's a common nail that's about a quarter inch longer and is a very good fit in the axle hole. I think it might be a 6 penny, but can't recall. We'd cut the pointy end off, and grind the head down a bit so it would fit in the cast bellcrank (might not need to do that with the stamped one you've got.) Always believed these worked better than the stock pushrods.
Sheldon "Better Than Stock" Brown
Newtonville, Massachusetts
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