Re: [CR]Definition of Dimpling on rims?

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From: "swampmtn" <swampmtn@siscom.net>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
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Subject: Re: [CR]Definition of Dimpling on rims?
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 20:22:32 -0400


Hi Harvey et al,

There's lots of different knurling tools with lots of different patterns for different applications. The pattern on my Weinmann/Schwinn rims is similar to some of the tools around my company's machine shop. And I can see how they could set the knurling tools to do rim sidewalls. I don't think it's a stamped surface.

Aldo Ross
Middletown, Ohio


----- Original Message -----
From: HM & SS Sachs


> What Lynn Miller shows at the web site below is different, being on the braking surface. I've always called that "knurling," although that's really stretching the machinist's term to fit a stamped surface.
>
> Any arbiters of truth out there, or just the usual suspects with strong opinions (like me)?
>
> harvey sachs
> mcLean va
>
> Jerry,
> > >
> > > The dimples or reverse dimples, do they look like this? -
> > > http://www.members.optusnet.com.au/lynnmiller/Photos/dimples.jpg
> > >
> > > These wheels are from my wife's Coventry Eagle mixte. These are 700C
> > > clinchers. There is no name on them that I could find, so your reference
>
> > to
>
> >> > dimples made me wonder if these were also Weinmann rims. It is outfitted
> >> > with Weinmann brake levers and side pulls.
> >> >
> >> > Thank you,
> >> >
> >> > P. Lynn Miller
> >> > Sydney, Australia
> >> > http://members.optusnet.com.au/lynnmiller/index.html
> >> >
> >> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> > From: "Jerry Corcoran" <jerry@proactivesports.com>
> >> > To: "CR List" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
> >> > Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 7:33 AM
> >> > Subject: [CR]Paramount Weinmann
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > The recent threads on Paramount original equipment and Weinmann rim
> >
> >
> > options
>
> >> > rang a bell with me. I have a "65 Paramount track bike with the
> >
> >
> Weinmann
>
> >>> > sew-up rims that are dimpled or reverse dimpled on the outside rim wall.
> >>> > Wouldn't these be considered road rims? Did Weinmann make a track rim?
> >>> > Would that have been standard equipment on a '65 Paramount P 14?