Peter Brueggeman wrote:
> John et al, could you please say something about the aesthetic
> differences between the Campagnolo Italian and Taiwan dropouts??
>
> http://www.velostuf.com/
> http://www.velostuf.com/
>
> Is there anything other than the embossing, which I do see looks quite
> different? I don't have a great comparative eye, so some pointers would
> be educational.
As John points out, the forging is much sloppier on the Taiwan units; the slots are poorly formed, the faces on the front dropouts are unmachined. And they tended to have a higher failure rate than the Italian ones. IIRC, Yoshi Kono (3Rensho) in particular got burned by this. And Richard Sachs got his own dropouts made by the Italian firm that had produced Campy dropouts, although I don't know if this was directly a result of the poor quality of the Taiwan dropouts.
--
-John Thompson (john@os2.dhs.org)
Appleton WI USA