Originally Posted by sydney
Even at that it's not a given the spindle length will be correct.
This is precisely the problem I have had swapping older cranks and BBs. Older Campag. cranks took asymmetrical spindles and were pretty much interchangeable with Stronglights, Ofmegas, TAs, etc. In the late 1980s (help me with the date, Sydney or anyone else), Campag. went to symmetrical spindles and a change in the right crank design, rendering new Campag. cranks incompatible with old spindles. (I played around briefly with putting an early 1990s Veloce crankset on the old Nervar Star BB on my Capo, and the new Campag. crank sat just about far enough outboard to accommodate a third chainring.)
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Capo: 1959 Modell Campagnolo, S/N 40324; 1960 Sieger (2), S/N 42624, 42597
Carlton: 1962 Franco Suisse, S/N K7911
Peugeot: 1970 UO-8, S/N 0010468
Bianchi: 1982 Campione d'Italia, S/N 1.M9914
Schwinn: 1988 Project KOM-10, S/N F804069