Dale Brown wrote:
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> n a message dated 5/28/2003 9:45:47 PM Eastern Daylight Time, tr4play@cox.net
> writes:
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> << Who on the list can provide info (see ebay link below) on this special
> Campagnolo umbrella pump clip? It looks standard except has an aluminium
> ring just inside the the inner points of the umbrella section. >>
>
> (BTW, I think that is a brazed-in ring of steel.)
> I always thought this version of the old umbrella pump clip was the CPSC
> version, the ring placed there to save the thousands of unwitting users from a
> slow death due to stabbing by those venomous points on earlier models?
I tested my umbrella clip with a magnet and the ring is non ferrous. Looks like aluminum to me with no evidence that it is brazed to the clip.
I agree with Dale that the ring probably dates to 1978 when the C.P.S.C. (Consumer Product Safety Commission) mandated changes to NR/SR.
Chuck "yall put yur eye out wid that" Schmidt L.A.
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