Re: [CR]Mafac brakes with ball bearings?

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From: "Diane Feldman" <feldmanbike@home.com>
To: <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net>, <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
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Subject: Re: [CR]Mafac brakes with ball bearings?
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 10:16:47 -0700


Haven't heard abour ball-pivot Racers, but maybe they were on the Mafac GT brakeset in the late 1970's? David Feldman


----- Original Message -----
From: Chuck Schmidt
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 11:07 AM
Subject: Re: [CR]Mafac brakes with ball bearings?



> John Everett wrote:
> >
>
> > I'm inferring from the previous posts that there are really three
> > variants of the "Dural Forge" brakes. The early ones ('50s & early
> > '60s) have ball bearing pivots, the next series (mid '60s) have the
> > red plastic washers and bronze (not brass, I believe) bushings, and
> > the later ones (late '60s) had red plastic bushings and washers.
>
>
> Early ones with holes drilled at the pivots to oil bushings, and
> slightly newer early ones without oil holes, but no plastic either.
>
> Has anyone on the list actually seen MAFAC Dural Forge with ball
> bearings? Four ball bearings would have _really_ increased the
> manufacturing price over a plane bronze bushing! Maybe an "urban
> legend?"
>
> Chuck Schmidt
> South Pasadena, Southern California