Originally Posted by
CroMo Mike
One of my Super Record posts would slip forward, not backward. The top part had been buffed shiny like the one in the picture. Another one I have was not buffed, and does not slip. I took the buffed one apart and sanded the places where the cradle contacts the top of the post with #220 grit emery cloth, then reassembled it without wiping the left-over emery grit from the post. It's an old machinists' and mechanics' trick. The grit gives some traction and discourages slipping. Seems to be working. Were some of the Super Record posts polished at the top by Campy, or is that a user modification?
The early versions with fluting had the bead-blasted/shot peened heads; the last versions (just before C-Record Aero) had polished heads, too. I think the auction version is original.
I had one where the PO did a bunch of pinhead-sized dimplings all over the portion where the bottom cradle sits. The edges of the dimples were raised just that tiny bit which I assume helped with traction similar to the grit trick above.
DD