[CR]Campy component specific timeline

(Example: Production Builders:Frejus)

Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 10:03:32 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Riccardo Bulissimo" <rbulissimo-bike@yahoo.com>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
In-Reply-To: <MONKEYFOOD1AevDgc2q00002b64@monkeyfood.nt.phred.org>
Subject: [CR]Campy component specific timeline

Here's an open question about Campagnolo time line stuff. Directed at Chuck "Tullio's other lost love child" Schmidt, but anyone can chime in, that is what this list is about, no?

Is there, should there be, a component specific "log" of changes? The reason I bring this up is I just learned a silly factoid that sent me scurrying to the parts bins and sure enough, he ( a seller on Ebay) was right!

I am refering to a subtle change on the quite common 626/a cable slide. At some point they were marked "Brev. Int. Camp" and then later "Brev. Camp." Sure enough, I have both. My real point is that if there was a spreadsheet kinda thing, then this sort of cabalistic knowledge would be fun to track. I know it comes up all the time here, with posters asking about their particular component. Like my front derailleur pictures just this morning and I offered up the thing about the bolt heads ( and of course, the bolt shown in the photo of the 626/a lister mentioned above is the wrong one, AFIK.)

The subtle changes of the glorious Gran Sport Rear are fairly well known, but when I was futzing with hubs to ready them for auction, I found somewhere in the mid 70's, the locknut codes went from CAM ## to CAMP ##. I have 55 through 72, then 75 on, so it is in there that they changed.

Anyway, if there was a gruppo compatto list of each item (down to the part number level as appropriate) and what is "early" and then "later". that would be way cool and useful ( and a bit of work, but maybe not if it was a wiki like spreadsheet? could be built up over time by several folks...

And tho off topic, but in the CR KOF spirit, is anyone tracking CURRENT Campy comings and goings? Like the subtle changes in the Record Derailleur? Just asking, think of the children who will one day be owning all this stuff when we are wormfood.

Just musing after coffee...Riccardo Bulissimo Verdi, NV USA