I'm pretty sure the one and only time I bought a new Nuovo Record brakeset it came with two front serrated washers and I thiiiink even the supplied instructions showed fitting two in front and one in back.
Not 100% sure, but that's my recollection.
Kurt Sperry Bellingham WA USA
On 7/8/07, Jay Sexton <jvs@sonic.net> wrote:
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> I have rarely been able to center and keep centered a side pull using the
> method you suggest. Maybe I'm a poor mechanic. Not.
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> An example for using a double washer is the Medici I am building up. The
> fork must have been designed for 27 inch wheels because 700c wheels will not
> work using a brake with 57 mm of reach and one serrated washer. I can,
> however, get this brake to work using a double washer. The double washer
> pushes the front brake out just enough that the pads will properly contact a
> 700c rim with the pads all the way down in the slots. As a bonus, it gets
> the cone flats out far enough that it clears the head set so I can use a
> cone wrench to center the caliper. And I don't have to use drop bolts front
> and rear.
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> But really, if a double washer allows one to use a wrench to center the
> caliper, what's the harm? It's much easier to use a cone wrench to center
> the caliper compared to removing the wheel every time you need to hold the
> caliper off center, tighten the bolt, then hope the caliper will be centered
> once you have tightened the bolt. And, if the caliper is not centered the
> first time, you have to repeat the process. atmo.
>
> Jay Sexton
> Sebastopol, CA
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> I still do not see the purpose of the extra flat and serrated washer.
> If the idea is to shim the front brake out over the headset bottom cup
> so that it can accessed with a wrench, I understand it less. Every
> brake I have ever had that needs centering can be centered by holding
> it cocked a bit to one side and then tightening the rear bolt. If the
> brake ever would require a wrench to hold it, the wrench could be
> applied with the wheel off from the bottom.
>
> I vote that the extra serrated washer is a spare and the flat washer is
> an aberration.
>
> Garth Libre in Miami Fl USA