At 7/7/2005 08:20 PM -0400, HM & SS Sachs wrote:
>I'd rationalize that Ole Jack didn't change his designs often,
No kidding, when I was negotiating to buy my Lugged Tourist the
previous owner said the serial # was 3322 which would make it a
'59. I checked and the Nervex lugs and Campi 1060 rear dropouts were
available in '59 so I assumed the date was correct but it had been
repainted. When I got it a quick glance at the serial #, it looked
like 3322 to me, so I built it up with older, though not
1959, parts. The dropouts had 5x.9mm threading in the eyelets and
26tpi threads in the H2O bosses seemed to confirm older
manufacture. Later I was photographing the front rack and noticed
that the serial # was actually a badly stamped 8322 which makes it an
'86. AFAIK nothing about the frame, except the tubeset, is any
different than if it had been made in '59.
>so I'd use 70s Suntour RD and bar-end shifters, but Campy or Shimano
>front derailleur (I'm too entrenched to move back and forth between
>standard and hi-normal FDs).
IRRC Not many of the SunTour FDs were hi-normal. All the ones I ever
used were low-normal (standard).
> Grab a good early post-bike boom critter as a parts donor,
Good advice.
>and play Huffy Toss with the frame...
If it's got horizontal dropouts, give it to some tatooed 20-something to make into a "fixie"(A). I get rid of more frames that way....
(A) I know the CR term is "fixed gear" but no 20-something I know calls them that.
Mark Stonich; Minneapolis Minnesota http://mnhpva.org