Re: [CR] Campagnolo Gran Sport rear derailleur with sprung top pivot

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Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:50:38 -0400
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Thread-Topic: [CR] Campagnolo Gran Sport rear derailleur with sprung top pivot
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From: "Lee, Paul" <Paul.Lee@aeroflex.com>
To: "brian blum" <bbspokes@hotmail.com>, <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Cc: jswan@optonline.net
Subject: Re: [CR] Campagnolo Gran Sport rear derailleur with sprung top pivot


Sure. I put a few more shots in the same Picasa gallery. I can also take it off the hanger if you need more visibility into the spring stuff.

http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/6iUcgo3UreDxUCLtI07JSA?feat=directl ink

Paul Lee Huntington, New York USA

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From: brian blum [mailto:bbspokes@hotmail.com] Sent: Friday, June 25, 2010 11:32 AM To: Lee, Paul; classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Cc: jswan@optonline.net Subject: RE: [CR] Campagnolo Gran Sport rear derailleur with sprung top pivot

Can you show me side and top views of the top pivot. I don't think that is what I have but your views don't show the top pivot well. Brian
> Subject: Re: [CR] Campagnolo Gran Sport rear derailleur with sprung top pivot
> Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 10:46:55 -0400
> From: Paul.Lee@aeroflex.com
> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> CC: bbspokes@hotmail.com; jswan@optonline.net
>
> Hi Brian,
>
> I created a similar hybrid derailleur from a twisted wreck of a
> Campagnolo Gran Sport and a decent condition single pulley Sport. In my
> case I just replaced the non-pivoting bottom of the Sport with the
> bottom section of the Gran Sport. I thought there might be a more
> graceful method of accomplishing the swap but after consulting with my
> favorite local machinist, Jamie Swan, we just beat on it with a punch
> and hammer. The Sport's pins are a bit short for the Gran Sport section
> so I may swap them out for longer ones someday. So, it is possible to
> create such a hybrid, the parts fit well enough, but I don't know how
> common it was.
>
> http://picasaweb.google.com/Paul.BVVW.Lee/CampySportFrankenstein?feat=di
> rectlink
>
> I had planned to put it on an old Frejus that I was building up for
> Cirque that had a non-Campagnolo dropout/hanger with a hole for the
> Sport's spring but ended up using a Sturmey Archer 5 speed hub instead.
> The Frankenstein derailleur will go on it in a future reconfiguration.
>
> Paul Lee
> Huntington, New York USA

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