pressed001

I just want to share my experience, hence replying to such an old thread.

I have an old Kestrel 200 Sci and have recently swapped out the old triple octalink crankset with a newer 7800 dura ace double (bought for 50 bucks because it was scratched! ha! The Sci is my rainy day ride so who cares about a scratch?). Anyway, I left the triple dérailleur in place. It took quite a bit of fine tuning to keep it from dropping the chain or rubbing. My point here is that the dérailleur is, like yours, braze-on and with the stock mounting bracket it is about 5° off-kilter clockwise. It was rubbing and shifted badly because of this. I could not move the bracket or reposition the dérailleur in any such way to fix this. So what I did was take a disc-brake 0.2mm shim (washer), bend it a bit, loosen the dérailleur mounting bolt, slide it in-between the mounting bracket and dérailleur (under mouting bolt). This corrected the 5° perfectly. I now have very nice shifting with my 6600 ultegra triple dérailleur on my 7800 double DA crankset.

What led me to this thread is that I am thinking about buying a used-like-new E7 frameset, removing the paint, having it polished, and building it up. I think perhaps this frame would look suuupppeeerrr sick when mirror polished!