[CR]Pulley Cage Preload on Early Campy Gran Sport

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Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 16:54:45 -0800 (PST)
From: "scott Baxter" <rg500g@yahoo.com>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: [CR]Pulley Cage Preload on Early Campy Gran Sport

I have an early Campagnolo Gran Sport rear derailleur in hand. No obvious dating, but the body is bronze. Unlike the '74 NR rear derailleur I have, there is no stop on the pulley cage to hold the cage spring under any tension. What I see instead is an interesting screw on the left side of the lower pivot body that seems to go to nowhere.

Is the pulley cage of the Gran Sport rear derailleur by design not tension preloaded, or is that screw a stop screw that seems to break off in every picture I've seen of this derailleur? I have a funny feeling the stop screw breaks off frequently, for part # 99 in the Gran Sport exploded view in Catalog 14 shows a longer screw than is in the derailleur, and its name is "vite regolazione cambio", whatever that means.

Scott Baxter St. Louis, MO

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