Re: [CR]Now: Chain tension adjusters Was: Modifying brake levers??

(Example: Framebuilding)

Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 10:48:58 -0700
From: "Chuck Schmidt" <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]Now: Chain tension adjusters Was: Modifying brake levers??
References: <180.1e738295.2c6fc476@aol.com>


Pete Geurds wrote:
>
> Chuck,
> Would you happen to have a picture you could post somewhere of an adjuster
> that works with horizontal road drops?

I don't.

Verbally: thin steel stamping, folded into "U" shape, washer shape at each end of strap that is folded in half, with adjustment screw threaded through bottom of "U". Only works on stamped steel road dropouts. Slides over each side of the dropout from the back and the adjuster screw pushes on the back edge of the dropout to pull the axle back.

Shown in catalogs from the 1930s, '40s and '50s.

Chuck Schmidt South Pasadena, CA

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