Originally Posted by
Rowan
It would seem to me, that if you are going to cast a dropout, it would have been a good idea to incorporate the eyelets with more meat around them just for the aesthetics as much as anything else. Those look like they have been brazed on to standard dropouts, which must add to the production cost and jigging.
no, they are obviously cast in. Those are a standard dropout, although I have never seen the version with eyelets before.