Originally Posted by
sciencemonster
Speaking as an absolute newbie, I've found that you can take apart Campy with a screwdriver if you are very very careful. With Shimano, the only way to dissasemble is to bang it again and again with a good-sized hammer, and then all these little springs and nuts and trolls go flying out all over the room and, inevitably, one of those little trolls rolls onto my bikeforum page and starts growing, sometimes six, ten pages...
Dont think you could do that screwdriver thing with a Delta brake caliper though.....
After having such a hard time cleaning and servicing my Delta calipers, I now just have them on display on my stash box staring at me, all beautiful like Cinderalla without a coach to take her to the ball, nicely cleaned up and lubed but with no matching levers and an Italian (preferably) bike frame to mount on. They're too much of a hassle and expense for me at this time build up into a full system. In the meantime, I got French CLB and Mavic brakesets built up since getting the Deltas and they are in front of the line for any coming buildups. Much easier on the wallet and hands to put together the two.
Chombi