In a message dated 8/16/2003 1:49:28 PM Eastern Daylight Time, chuckschmidt@earthlink.net writes:
> 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.
>
Thanks. Sounds like something that could be whittled out of a piece of scrap stainless.
Pete Geurds
Douglassville, PA