Hey Brett, I believe the tabbed washers are for shifter installation on downtube bosses. They act as a shifter stop.
-Jay B. On Mar 6, 8:23 am, Brett Lindenbach <brett.lindenb...@gmail.com> wrote: > On a related topic, I just installed silver bar end shifters on my Blériot > (pix to come). My installation kit came with four square hole washers: two > with tabs and two without. The instructions only showed the tabbed washers > and indicated that the tabs should point into the pods. However they do not > reach into the pods unless the untabbed square washers are put onto the > bosses first. If I were to do that, then the cable line would not be > aligned with the cable hole in the pod. Since having a properly tensioned > cable is most important, I simply left the tabbed square washers out. > Everything seems fine and shifting is smooth. But I wonder what those > tabbed square hole washers were for. Again, the untabbed washers were not > in the instructions, while the square washers in the youtube installation > video don't have tabs. Any thoughts? > thanks, > bdl -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
