Campy made a nut that went on the inside of the dropout hanger for this derailleur. The nut is threaded for the small diameter bolt, but has a cylindrical portion that fits snugly inside of threaded hole in the the dropout.
Leonard Bulger Marblehead, MA
Mark Agree wrote:
I had finally figured out what to do with a mid level (at best), approx.
1970 Torpado road bike that I got from Matteo, some years ago. It
is orange,
with long Campy dropouts. My new scheme is to use a nice honkin' Gran
Turismo
rear, Gran Sport front, bar end shifters, weighty Campy steel three arm
crank, and other appropriate items for the theme. Great. The
problem is
that the
rear unit I have is pre-mounted to a black steel hanger, with the
beautiful
red-C'd bolt ... that has threading significantly smaller than the
mounting
hole in the dropout.
I've looked at every single Campy bolt I have in all the misc
derailleurs in
my collection, and not one will serve as a substitute, due to the
extra wide
sleeve on the derailleur that the bolt must travel through and
clear. Every
bolt is simply too short.
Now, I really had my heart set on seeing that red C on the completed
bike.
Is there a proper fitting red-C bolt available that threads into the
dropout?
Can I possibly just go ahead and mount the unit USING the black
steel Campy
hanger, even though the dropout has one too? I doubt this highly,
as there
would be no room for the hardware on the back side of the unit ...
it would
awkwardly push off the face of the dropout; true or false? I'm willing
to let
go of using the red-C bolt if no proper fitting one can be had, but
what
else then? If I have to omit the GT rear from the project completely,
then I'm
gonna scrap it, and go back to the drawing board.
Any ideas? Any experience? Anyone got a red-C bolt that threads
into a
Campy dropout, for sale ... please? Thanks so much!!!