I've had a couple of generous offers of original bolts to use a patterns, but now I'm wondering if there were variations in the old style bolts themselves. From memory, as I haven't seen it in over two years, the original bolt that was lost by the restorer had an unusually tall nut, probably at least twice as tall as an ordinary hex nut of the same diameter. That is, there was much more area for wrench purchase than with an ordinary hex nut. Yet some of the photos on the CR site and one photo of one a CR member offered to loan look like pretty ordinary hex nuts, that is it was only the bolt piece that looked "special". Does anyone else have an old non-allen Cinelli or Windsor seatbolt with a tall nut like mine? Maybe this was only a Windsor thing and didn't appear on actual Cinellis. Or maybe my memory is just faulty.
Regards,
Jerry Moos
Big Spring, TX