These adjusters are still available over here. They only cost a few bucks.
Dennis Young
Hotaka, Japan
> 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
>
> .