Re: [CR]Cinelli bolts for reproduction

(Example: Production Builders:Peugeot:PX-10LE)

Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 19:13:28 -0700
From: "Kurt Sperry" <haxixe@gmail.com>
To: "Jerome & Elizabeth Moos" <jerrymoos@sbcglobal.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]Cinelli bolts for reproduction
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Here's mine:

http://picasaweb.google.com/haxixe/CinelliSeatBinder

Sorry about the ugly flash pics. FWIW Ken Denny thought the bolt predates the frame- probably '70.

Kurt Sperry Bellingham WA USA

On 5/18/07, Jerome & Elizabeth Moos <jerrymoos@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> I've had a couple of generous offers of original bolts to use a patterns,
> but now I'm wondering if there were variations in the old style bolts
> themselves. From memory, as I haven't seen it in over two years, the
> original bolt that was lost by the restorer had an unusually tall nut,
> probably at least twice as tall as an ordinary hex nut of the same
> diameter. That is, there was much more area for wrench purchase than with
> an ordinary hex nut. Yet some of the photos on the CR site and one photo of
> one a CR member offered to loan look like pretty ordinary hex nuts, that is
> it was only the bolt piece that looked "special". Does anyone else have an
> old non-allen Cinelli or Windsor seatbolt with a tall nut like mine? Maybe
> this was only a Windsor thing and didn't appear on actual Cinellis. Or
> maybe my memory is just faulty.

>

> Regards,

>

> Jerry Moos

> Big Spring, TX