Here's my experience with these and a suggested fix... All the ones I've seen (both older and later versions) had a small barrel/cable-stop through which the cable would pass. I've had both an older version - the "folded" steel plates are black - and a later model on which the steel plates are siver in color. But they were of similar construction, even with respect to those cable guides/stops.
Also, I found those stops to be so difficult to remove that it's hard to imagine one simply falling off. Of course, those levers were not indestructable, so who knows? The reason I tried to pry off the little barrels was that the lever became useless when the right hand shaft pulled away from the band.
I suspect an easy repair would be to cut down a barrel adjuster
and use it in place of hte original part. It won't have a
really original appearance without a fair amount of cutting,
filing and polishing, though.
Fred Rednor - Arlington, Virginia
> I have two sets of 1970's era campy downtube shifters with
> guides.
> One of them has guides with an ( ? aluminum ) cable stop,
> like the one
> in this picture, riveted into the bottom of the shifter body
> (ebay
> item # 3653460575, middle picture, supersized):
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>
>
http://ebay.com/
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> On the other one the riveted aluminum cable stop seems to be
> missing,
> as depicted in this picture (ebay item # 3653368939):
>
>
>
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>
> Notice that there is nothing protruding out of the bottom of
> the
> second set of shifters, the cable stop is 2-dimensional.
>
> 1. Did campy make two types of shifters with Guides ? Or,
>
> 2. Did the riveted aluminum guides fall out of my shifter
> clamp
> bodies ?
>
> If the guides can fall out, is it possible to make or get new
> ones ??
> I am thinking that mine may have been melted away during the
> rechrome
> of my very rusty shifter clamp.
>
> Thanx,
>
> - Don Gillies
> San Diego, CA
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