Re: [CR] How impossible is it to find replacement Cobalto Gems?

Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 22:06:54 -0800
From: Raymond Dobbins <raydobbins2003@yahoo.com>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>, Sean Flores <seaneee175@gmail.com>, <losgatos_dale@yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <785480.35025.qm@web38103.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [CR] How impossible is it to find replacement Cobalto Gems?

  Good memory Dale!

My solution to missing Cobalto jewels (at least two years ago) was to look in Michaels, my local arts & crafts store (thanks to Lou Deeter's suggestio n), and I found these not quite right but more than suitable replacements:

http://www.raydobbins.com/derosa/photos/photo16.jpg

Dirt cheap, they came in a bag of of different colors and sizes.  I bough t a few bags and gave away (here on the list) a few pair of blue and other colors.

I may still have a pair of blue - let me know if you can't find them loca lly.

Ray Dobbins
Miami, Florida USA

--- On Fri, 1/23/09, Dale B. Phelps wrote:

From: Dale B. Phelps <losgatos_dale@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [CR] How impossible is it to find replacement Cobalto Gems? To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org, "Sean Flores" <seaneee175@gmail.com> Date: Friday, January 23, 2009, 3:35 PM

Anywhere from slightly impossible to very impossible

(sorry I coiuldn't resist)

I think Ray Dobbins has figured out a pretty good alternate source...Ray?

Dale Phelps
Montagna lunga Colorado USA

--- On Fri, 1/23/09, Sean Flores wrote:

From: Sean Flores <seaneee175@gmail.com> Subject: [CR] How impossible is it to find replacement Cobalto Gems? To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Date: Friday, January 23, 2009, 12:10 PM

I'm thinking of purchasing some Campy Cobalto calipers sans gems. Is it fea sible to think I may find the gems that are missing? Is there a source for

these?

Thanks all.

Sean Flores
San Francisco, CA