Sheldon: The best cure for sleep is insomnia. I always refer to hubs as small flange-SF and the large flange is LF. When I say SR I add Campy to identify. We had that problem years ago, too, and tried to minimize any misunderstanding. Your comment to use a lingua franca is astute , and we should work on common terminology that eliminates confusion and alerts folk what to ask for during the heat of bidding wars. As the man said, "trust but verify". Ted Ernst Palos Verdes Estates, CA
> Greg Parker observed:
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>>Just a general comment here - it seems that lately, OT has come to mean
>>on-topic. It's always meant Off-Topic to me, or so I thought, so now I'm
>>getting confused (which is really nothing new, I guess....).
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> Maybe this is like "LF" hubs: Sometimes means "Low Flange" other times
> it's "Large Flange."
>
> Then there are "SR" cranks...when you're bidding on 'em, you think "Super
> Record" but when the package arrives, they turn out to be "Sakae Ringyo."
>
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