[CR]re: Losing Campy Downtube Shift-Levers Guides ...

I have seen several NOS shifter sets with cable guides where the aluminum bullet-shaped things were gone. I didn't understand it at first, but now I realize that some were delivered from the factory with those dealies missing. Why, I do not know...

John Barron Minneapolis, MN

Donald Gillies wrote:

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):
    http://ebay.com/<blah> On the other one the riveted aluminum cable stop seems to be missing, as depicted in this picture (ebay item # 3653368939):
    http://ebay.com/<blah> 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