On Monday, February 3, 2014 11:56:38 AM UTC-6, Steve Palincsar wrote: > > On 02/03/2014 12:43 PM, john muhl wrote: > > Hi. I've been informed that the only B17 with copper rivets is the B17 > > Special but that also has brass rails which this saddle does not have. > > So to be clear this is a regular B17 with brown colored rivets of > > unknown material. > > > The B.17 Champion Special has been available with chrome plated rails, > black painted rails and copper plated rails. None that I'm aware of > have ever had brass rails. The regular B.17 has small steel rivets; I > don't think I've ever seen one where the rivets were brown. All I've > ever seen (and I've seen many standard B.17s over the years) were > silver. However, the standard has small rivets, the Special large > ones. There's no confusing one for the other, they're immediately > identifiable at a glance. >
I meant copper plated rails. You can see what I have here https://plus.google.com/photos/114339590269760877010/albums/5976192944822227665?authkey=CObm8q6I-cjlfA Definitely brown (small, non-hammered B17 standard sized) rivets but also black painted chromoly rails. Also, saddle is now claimed. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
