Re: [CR] WTB - Campy NRecord Brake adjusters

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From: "Matthew 'Devotion' Bowne" <devotion_finesse@hotmail.com>
To: <goughary@yahoo.com>, CR discussion list <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:48:39 -0500
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Subject: Re: [CR] WTB - Campy NRecord Brake adjusters


Rob, Before ya give up on the old rusted barrel adjusters, you might try soaking them in a shot glass full of WD-40 for a day, them hitting them with a wire brush/0000 steel wool, etc. I have salvaged a couple of these by doing this and then carefully getting the adjusters to spin again...

Matthew Bowne Brooklyn, New York
> Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:42:20 -0800
> From: goughary@yahoo.com
> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> Subject: [CR] WTB - Campy NRecord Brake adjusters
>
>
> The brake adjusters on my seventies Nuovo Record brakes are rusted solid. And I'm trying to save as many of the original parts on this colnago as I can. I need a front and rear set of adjusters as a replacement.
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> Any out there? I have the o-rings, so I just need the adjusters...slight rust is fine, they shouldn't be NOS.
>
> Thanks
> Rob Gougahry
> Stamford, CT USA