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Originally Posted by
old's'cool
If those Shimano SF dropouts pictured above are stamped, somebody went to a hellava lotta trouble to make them look forged. You are not going to get the rounded edges, and the sharp reliefs between the clamping surfaces and the base surface in a one-shot stamping process. For the same reasons as expressed by SJX426, I'm also skeptical that the Campy dropouts pictured on page 1 of this thread are stamped.
You are right about the Shimanos of course. I was saying that the identification lettering was stamped not the dropout.
Sorry for the confusion.
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