Re: [CR]Huret Front Mechs - Braze-on ?

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Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 18:17:33 -0700
From: "Kurt Sperry" <haxixe@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]Huret Front Mechs - Braze-on ?
Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
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http://picasaweb.google.com/haxixe/HuretJubileeBrazeOnFrontDerailleur

Here's a braze-on Jubilee FD that came up on ebay some time back. You can see in the detail shot that it too is stamped "2082".

Kurt Sperry Bellingham Washington USA

On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 12:13 PM, R.S. Broderick <rsb000@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Without seeing any pictures to confirm my suspicion, the particular
> front
> derailleur that Harvey describes would seem likely to be a Huret
> Challenger
> II model 1050 dating from May of 1982 (...that "2082" reference cited
> would
> be a date code indicating production in the twentieth week of year
> 1982).
> Although the Huret brothers sold a majority interest of their company to
> the
> German conglomerate Fichtel & Sachs AG back in 1980, it was not until
> the
> latter part of 1982 that their wares began to be marketed under the
> combined
> Sachs Huret logo. And while I have never personally seen a Huret
> branded
> factory original front derailleur incorporating a braze-on mounting
> attachment (...again, lacking pictures of Harvey's example which
> obviously
> does exist), I can say with absolute certainty that the Challenger II
> and
> Jubilee models of Sachs Huret labeled front derailleurs were produced in
> both clamp-on and braze-on configurations.
>
> Robert "hip hip Huret" Broderick
> ..the "Frozen Flatlands" of South Dakota
> Sioux Falls, USA
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: classicrendezvous-bounces@bikelist.org
> [mailto:classicrendezvous-bounces@bikelist.org] On Behalf Of Harvey
> Sachs
> Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2008 7:35 AM
> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org; teaat4p@yahoo.com
> Subject: re: [CR]Huret Front Mechs - Braze-on ?
>
> Richard Cielec asked:
>
> Were Huret front mechs offered in braze-on configuration ?
> Any suggestions on converting clamp-on to braze-on ?
> My interest is of the usual suspects: Jubillee, Success, Duopar, etc...
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> I can only answer the first question: Yes.
> Before my eyes there is a Jubilee-style, but all steel, braze-on Huret,
> marked with a "2082," presumably a model number. Jubilee-style in that
> a cam surface replaces one arm of the parallelogram. Fascinating also,
> in that a rather thick piece of sheet metal is variously stamped and
> bent to form a one-piece chassis, mounting the pivots, the stop screws,
> the cam, and even the convex surface for mounting to the braze-on
> fitting. The outer plate of the cage has "Huret" in bas relieve on a dot
>
> background at the front, and two slots with two triangular cammy
> punchouts between.
>
> One good question deserves another: anyone know what this was called,
> when it was made, etc?
>
> Richard gets first dibs, if he needs it for a project.
>
> harvey sachs
> mcLean va usa.