Re: [CR]Replacement fixing bolts for Campagnolo handlebar controls?

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From: "Pete Geurds" <raleighpro@dejazzd.com>
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Subject: Re: [CR]Replacement fixing bolts for Campagnolo handlebar controls?
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 11:41:26 -0500
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From: "Mark Bulgier" <Mark@bulgier.net> Subject: RE: [CR]Replacement fixing bolts for Campagnolo handlebar controls?


> I have only worked on a few hundred sets of Suntour bar-cons, certainly
> not all of them ever made, but they were all right hand threads. Most
> people think they are left-hand because you turn them clockwise to
> loosen. But this is because the "head" of the bolt is in back, behind
> the three-part expander plug inside the handlebar. Turning a right-hand
> thread clockwise makes it move away from you. If the head is on the
> backside of the work piece, then that is loosening.

Mark gets my vote for best explanation! ; )

Pete Geurds
Douglassville, Pa