Or you could try Bike Works NYC at bikecult.com. They have them. Jim Jenkins Sebastopol, CA
Dennis Young <mail@woodworkingboy.com>@bikelist.org on 08/16/2003 08:03:53 PM
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To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org> cc:
Subject: [CR]Track chain tensioners
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
>
> .
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