[CR]Black Anodized Campy

(Example: Framebuilders:Bernard Carré)

From: <d-gordon@sbcglobal.net>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 00:05:50 -0800
In-Reply-To: <00ba01c4d9d6$8d475eb0$15f3a652@ericaspc>
Subject: [CR]Black Anodized Campy

Someone mentioned about anodizing and how a worn crankset
> was a good candidate for polishing and reanodizing. That got
> me thinking. Does anyone here know some good placed to send
> parts for resurfacing, and how well does it work> How
> expensive is it? And is there any danger of someone making
> there old stuff look new and passing it off as NOS? If so,
> that's something else I need to be aware of.
> Also, I purchased a new Campy Super Record chainring back
> in the the late 70s that was black anodized. I realize that
> I have never seen one like it on a bike or elsewhere. What I
> was wondering is if it is a rare factory anodizing or
> something that maybe some company was routinely doing back
> then? I recall seeing on ebay some campy record lines that
> came with a dark bluish anodizing, so I know that Campy does
> issue sets with different colors of anodizing.