Originally Posted by roccobike

I purchased a Ross Signature bike from a forum member some time ago. I've finally got to it on my project list. I wanted this bike because of the excellent ride provided by the triple butted, Ishiwata steel frame. This bike will be a rider so I'm not concerned about originality. I want to convert it to a brifter bike with Shimano RSX 2X7 shifters. I'm all set to mount the shifters but when I tried to attach the cable adapters to the shifter bosses on the frame, nothing doing, they won't fit. The bosses work with Shimano, friction downtube shifters and are not the same bosses found on a frame with Shimano index shifters. They have a notch on them the index bosses don't have and they don't extend as far as the index bosses. I'm OK with all that but I need to know will any other adapters work with these shifter bosses? I went on ebay and found some Campagnolo adapters and some other brand I'm not familiar with, but I'm reluctent to buy unless I'm fairly sure they'll work.
I know I can simply put a vintage, chrome cable stop that I have in my spare parts bin, but that won't look nearly as good as adapters that will work with those shifter bosses.
Does anyone know if there's an adapter that I can bolt up to these shifter bosses?
Here's a pic of the Ross frame bosses and a pic of the standard Shimano adapters that I thought would work, but don't.
Thanks for any help.