Re: [CR]retrofriction shifter -- corrected diagram available

(Example: Framebuilders:Cecil Behringer)

Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2002 19:47:09 -0800
From: "Lee Berg" <lberg@ventoux.com>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]retrofriction shifter -- corrected diagram available
References: <20020204171406.48017.qmail@web10906.mail.yahoo.com>


The "CR approved" version of the diagram is now available. (I took the liberty of "correcting" the diagram in case anyone wants to refer to it at some time in the future:)

http://www.ventoux.com/retrofric.gif (the previous URL below works, too.)

Lee Berg Palo Alto

Tom Dalton wrote:
>
> This is the illustration I referred to as erroneous.
> Seeing it again, after all these years, I now remember
> now that it is more vague than incorrect. Looking at
> it you would think the cupped washers nest together
> like spoons in a drawer. They really should be
> arranged so that the concave faces of are facing
> eachother. What you end up with is something that is
> linticular in profile, that is, it looks like a lens
> from the side. This squishy little package ends up
> working as a spring to keep tension along the
> shifter's axis.
>
> Tom Dalton
>
> --- Lee Berg <lberg@ventoux.com> wrote:
> >
> > http://www.ventoux.com/retrofric.jpg