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@CV-6 said "You should look for Dural Forge IMO."

@friendofpugs replied "I think Mafac Racers would be appropriate too."

Two names for the same thing. Or more accurately, there was never a brake named Dural Forge, it's just that early Racers didn't have the name Racer emblazoned on them, it just said Dural Forge. Which of course is just telling us that they are forged, out of dural, an aluminum alloy.

They used the Dural Forge stamping on other brakes too -- Tiger comes to mind, but there may have been other models too. Eventually they started stamping them with Racer, but the model name was Racer all along. When we say Dural Forge, what we really mean is Racers that are old enough to not be stamped Racer.

Apologies if everyone here already knew that and I'm belaboring the point!

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