At 06:46 PM 27/01/2008 +0000, Simon PJ wrote:
>http://www.wooljersey.com/gallery/simonpj/Follis_1955_Forestier/
>I haven't worked out how to stop it shifting up,
>over and off the big ring, as there doesn't seem to be a mechanism for
>limiting the inward motion of the top end of the lever.
The little cross bar welded to the lever should stop against the seat tube
and then you adjust the position of the cage. See
http://www.geocities.com/
Some of the earlier Simplex suicide shifters didn't have this stop. I have one like that from the early 1950s.
John Betmanis
Woodstock, Ontario
Canada