Chris Ioakimedes wrote: I tried searching the archives first but found nothing. When were Huret wing nuts first available? I know they were still available in the early 70s. <snip>
I'm pretty sure I have a stash of these orthe equivalent. Couldn't get myself to actually ride with them, and thought I might someday have a project that could use them. If someone needs them, I'll hunt for them. $10/pr would cover the time to hunt and check if front or rear. Really ghastly, as I recall them, the ones I have in my mind's fuzzy eye were pot metal or an easily broken bronze, with sharp edges and mold-marks, linked the the cavities of my cerebrum with ASTRA and similar emblems of quality during the bike boom.
But, they would be quite the thing for a vintage car-top carrier using plain axles instead of this fru-fru QR stuff... :-)
harvey sachs
mcLean VA.