Re: [CR]Campagnolo Toolkit trivia question: Tool G?

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Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 19:38:49 GMT
To: themaaslands@comcast.net
Subject: Re: [CR]Campagnolo Toolkit trivia question: Tool G?
From: <brianbaylis@juno.com>
cc: Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org

Steven,

Another little known fact about this wonderful tool. Works really well to rap the knuckles of your framebuilding students when they muck up some lugs or make a crappy braze joint.

Brian Baylis
La Mesa, CA


-- themaaslands@comcast.net wrote:


> The full Campagnolo Tool Case contains Tool "G" (a 50cm x 2.5cm steel
> straightedge with a 1cm diameter hole at each end) which Catalog 17 says
> is "Straight edge for the alignment of the rudder pedals". (Catalog 18
> says the same thing.)

A more correct translation of the original Italian text would be:

"Bar for the verification of the alignment of the pedalarms with the freewheel and the inclination of the drop-outs."

--
Steven Maasland
Moorestown, NJ

> The full Campagnolo Tool Case contains Tool "G" (a 50cm x 2.5cm steel

> straightedge with a 1cm diameter hole at each end) which Catalog 17 says

> is "Straight edge for the alignment of the rudder pedals". (Catalog 18

> says the same thing.)

>

> OK, Guys and Gals... what are "rudder pedals"?

>

>

> Lee Berg

> Palo Alto, CA