Hello,
I remember several weeks ago someone on the list described the first version of the Record front derailleur. They described the derailleur as having chrome pivot arms and the long cable stop. I am familiar with the rare cable stop derailleur, but this was the first time I had heard about chrome pivot arms. Well, I was looking at some of my parts (spring cleaning) and found an interesting front Record derailleur in my stash. It does not include the cable stop, but has chromed pivot arms as apposed to alloy arms. The shape of the clamp support held up against the seat tube on the drive side (where the cable stop arm would be located) is shaped differently too. Instead of the flat box-shaped bottom seen on my other front Record derailleurs, this derailleur's support is shaped like a sharks fin. No indication of file marks or broken cable stop. Additionally, the derailleur has no 'C' clip to hold the arms in place so one would think this is pre '73-'74. This also leads me to believe this is not a lower level Campy derailleur from the mid 80's, i.e. 980 derailleur. Is this perhaps a transition piece from the first Record derailleur w/cable stop to the more common pre '74 Record derailleurs without 'C' clip? Or perhaps someone just swapped parts?! Anyone have an idea what this is?
Regards, Rich Robinson
Jacksonville NC