[CR] Rockwell hardness testing of Campag. crank arms

(Example: Framebuilders:Chris Pauley)

Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:47:37 -0600
From: <globallyoff@s2ki.com>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Cc: globallyoff@s2ki.com
Subject: [CR] Rockwell hardness testing of Campag. crank arms


I was lovingly doing a final cleaning on my 1974 right sided Campagnolo Nuovo Record crank arm tonite before I do the install on one of my restorations. I noticed a dimple with a small circle around it on the back side. It looks like a quality control test for hardness to me. I've never seen this before on an aluminum crank arm much less, one of this vintage. I assume that Campy only tested a statistically significant sample of these.

My question is..........does anyone else have one of these?

Keith Kessel
Shreveport, La.