[CR]Bates and Delrin clip questions

Dear CR listers,

I would LOVE to know how the original Dunlop clips worked, and how Willie Carton actually made copies from a tractor tire. (I haven't been able to do so from the photos.) It seems to me that there is still a very substantial market for such clips, in case anyone from Dunlop or a plastics company is lurking out there (hint, hint).

My other Bates question is this--what is/are the function(s) of the round brazed-on "knobs" on the seat stays and fork blades? Are these rack or fender mounts? How do you attach things to them?

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Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:23:44 +0000 (GMT) From: willc <cherrycycle1@yahoo.co.uk> To: Wayne Bingham <blkmktbks@gmail.com> Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Subject: Re: [CR]Dunlop Rubber Brake "Cable Guides" ... Message-ID: <297794.65293.qm@web25708.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <73706f460808181400x1dabe85eq1f9bb52959b9551@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 MIME-Version: 1.0 Precedence: list Reply-To: cherrycycle1@yahoo.co.uk Message: 6

Wayne, Robert. listees, early in 08. I lightly restored a 1938 double gents SUN wasp tandem.. . it had been cabled up with these exact Dunlop rubbers ... at a loss to find satisfactory new ones or even decent old ones, i set about c utting out my own.I had 1 survivor to replicate. I sourced a burst tractor rear inner tube, huge thing... and thicker rubber than any other tube

that i had at that time. i had a few wrong ones turn out!!! Â they areÂ
     relatively easy to copy and practice makes near perfect.. Willie Carton from a wet moderately flooded Coleraine , Co L' Derry N .Ireland