Pete Geurds wrote:
>
> 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.
No need to reinvent the wheel. They are still around, unused, in the unlikeliest of places, where you least expect to find them, who woulda guessed, what is this thing anyway, well, you get the idea.
I'm sure our brothers in Britain can hook you up with a pair. "Can you HOOK a brutha UP?"
Chuck Schmidt South Pasadena, Southern California
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