Hi Crew,
Firstly, this is off topic!!! but maybe Dale will let this one slip
through the cracks as this subject has been visited before with no real
conclusion or solution. The Cobalto brake jewels are just plastic insets
into a recess on the brake nuts of the last Campy brales before the
C-record series. These little suckers would just pop out for no good
reason and no replacements were ever made available by Campy. I have
several sets of these brakes with no jewels and have sent friends who
have visited Vicenza to see if there is a box or bucket of them lying
around.....no success. Ray Dobbins has used faceted plastic inserts some
some effect, but a rounded dome is what is really needed. I have come up
with a 'nearly as good as original' solution which is better than the
faceted method. I have to great success made small circular cobalt blue
printed foil stickers which have been stuck to plastic'glass surface
savers' which fit snugly in the small recess of the Cobalto nut. The
only difference is that this plastic is not hard, but to some degree
soft. Really difficult to tell the difference. Before everyone emails me
about this, I will do some sets and gets some pictures going.
Greg Softley
Coffs Harbour
Australia