I have two sets of 1970's era campy downtube shifters with guides. One of them has guides with an ( ? aluminum ) cable stop, like the one in this picture, riveted into the bottom of the shifter body (ebay item # 3653460575, middle picture, supersized):
On the other one the riveted aluminum cable stop seems to be missing, as depicted in this picture (ebay item # 3653368939):
Notice that there is nothing protruding out of the bottom of the second set of shifters, the cable stop is 2-dimensional.
1. Did campy make two types of shifters with Guides ? Or,
2. Did the riveted aluminum guides fall out of my shifter clamp bodies ?
If the guides can fall out, is it possible to make or get new ones ?? I am thinking that mine may have been melted away during the rechrome of my very rusty shifter clamp.
Thanx,
- Don Gillies
San Diego, CA