Re: [CR] Campy pedals dust cap:Classicrendezvous Digest, Vol 85, Issue 94

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From: "tobit linke" <tobitlinke@hotmail.com>
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Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:21:02 +0000
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Subject: Re: [CR] Campy pedals dust cap:Classicrendezvous Digest, Vol 85, Issue 94


Here's the message as intended, with subject and signed off:

The threaded portion of MKS dust caps is longer, than the threading in (some?) Campa pedals, and may need to be filed down a bit, as the friction between the flanges of pedal body and dust cap seems to hold the dustcap in place.

Tobit Linke, Dortmund, Germany
> > Message: 3
> > Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:28:14 -0600
> > From: John Thompson <johndthompson@gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [CR] Campy pedals dust cap
> > To: "classicrendezvous@bikelist.org" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
> > Message-ID: <4B57D7DE.20303@os2.dhs.org>
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> > Matthew Simon wrote:
> >
> > > Hello can anyone point me in the direction of where I could get a
> > > replacement dust cap for my pedals? Also are all the campy's have the
> > > same thread pattern? Same size?
> >
> > All Campy pedals from the on-topic era use the same threading. If you
> > don't strictly need an "official" Campagnolo dustcap, dustcaps for the
> > MKS "Sylvan" pedal will also work in Campy pedals, and are cheap and
> > readily available. They're solid aluminum so you can easily file off the
> > MKS logo on the cap to make it anonymous.
> >
> > --
> >
> > -John Thompson (john@os2.dhs.org)
> > Appleton WI USA