[CR]Re: Campy dropouts (was: Ann. Paramount listing on E-Bay...this one may set the standard against which E-Bay sale pages should be judged)

(Example: Framebuilders:Chris Pauley)

Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:49:44 -0600
Organization: The Crimson Permanent Assurance
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
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From: "John Thompson" <johndthompson@gmail.com>
Subject: [CR]Re: Campy dropouts (was: Ann. Paramount listing on E-Bay...this one may set the standard against which E-Bay sale pages should be judged)

Robert D. Dayton,Jr. wrote:
> There was a period when Campagnolo dropouts had quality issues.
> I know of a couple builders that would try to steer customers away from
> Campagnolo dropouts in the mid to late 80's.
> I have some where the embossing is just terrible.
> You can harldy make out the name.

In the mid-late 80s Campy changed from making the dropouts in Italy to Taiwan. The early Taiwan production was not pretty.

John Baron has some pics so you can compare them:

http://www.velostuf.com/campy1010bitaly.jpg http://www.velostuf.com/campy1010btaiwan.jpg http://www.velostuf.com/velostufgalleryframebuildingmaterials.htm

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-John Thompson (john@os2.dhs.org)
Appleton WI USA