Those brakes look nice! I have super polished some vintage era brakes too, it's rewarding work.
This reminds me of a story from the early 1970s.
McLean Fonvielle, maker of Silk Hope and McLean frames, took a set of Weinmann 610 center pulls and filed off all the ridges and casting traces and polished it to a satin luster. He replaced the Weinmann pads & shoes with Campy holders, and mounted the set with Campy brake levers on his touring bike. Seemed a logical ultra nice set up for a touring rig...
Later a friend saw the set up when he visited the Clean Machine bike shop (one of the original Turin Co-op members) and Mclean jokingly asked him "Have you seen these already? ... the new Campy center pulls?" In a short time, everyone was talking about Campagnolo's new center pull!
McLean set folks straight when he had the chance but it was a good laugh for a while....
Dale Brown cycles de ORO, Inc. 1410 Mill Street #100 Greensboro, North Carolina 27408 USA 336-274-5959 http://www.cyclesdeoro.com http://www.classicrendezvous.com http://www.carolinacup.com \u201cLife is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving\u201d A.Einstein
-----Original Message----- From: Joe Bunik <jbunik@gmail.com> To: CLASSIC RENDEZVOUS <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>; Sean Flores <seaneee175@gmail.com> Sent: Wed, Apr 28, 2010 1:53 am Subject: Re: [CR] MAFAC Modifications.
And here are my NOFACs thus far...
http://www.flickr.com/
I took the roughest-cast, dirtiest one I could find and went to town with the file and emery. Rounded-out all the corners and edges and removed all flashing left behind by the fine craftspeople at Mafac...
Anyone have extra sets of the chrome "Deluxe" hardware? My pad-mounting-posts have rusted away to nothing, but curiously the pivot bolts remained near-spotless - how does that happen?
=- Joe Bunik Walnut Creek, CA
On 4/27/10, Sean Flores <seaneee175@gmail.com> wrote:
> Took a pic of the set I'm working on:
>
> http://farm5.static.flickr.com/
>
> The drillium was a little much, but fun to do. Made a quick template from a
> piece of sheet metal and drilled away. This probably won't help the already
> nasty flex the arms already suffer. But if they do snap, they'll look good
> doing it!
>
> Next steps are to plate the other steel bits with brass, get a new set of
> springs, steal a set of brass bushing from a ragged pair of dural forge I
> have and lastly, decide on which brake pads/holders to go with. Classic
> MAFAC? Or something more modern with some easier toe in adjustment.
>
> Sean Flores
> San Francisco, CA
>
>
> On Apr 27, 2010, at 6:23 PM, classicrendezvous-request@bikelist.org wrote:
>
>> Message: 3
>> Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:14:21 -0700
>> From: Joe Bunik <jbunik@gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [CR] Mafac Modifications
>> To: sean flores <seaneee175@gmail.com>
>> Cc: c r <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
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>> Hi Sean
>>
>> You literally read my mind. Was just contemplating my lack of chrome
>> "deluxe" Mafac hardware to pair up with these, then realized I could
>> probably more easily go have the bits chromed-up rather than seek out
>> more NOS stuff! Maybe I'll try one of those brush-on kits.
>>
>> I'd love to see how yours turn out. I made quick work of the first of
>> four arms last night, next up will be more of an assembly line
>> approach... can't wait to try out those new Kool-Stop blocks.
>>
>> =- Joe Bunik
>> Walnut Creek, CA