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02-19-21 | 11:31 PM

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Drillium Dude

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From: PAZ

Another eight:

I received the Portacatena lever already milled as seen here, so I took a stock FD lever and milled it to match; voila!

The "NOS Button" referred to earlier in the text:

More drilled decoration; these particular holes do not penetrate the reverse side of the calipers:

OMAS alloy center nuts affixed to an OMAS titanium center bolt:

Campy QC miss:

This was the first pair of brake levers I ever took a Dremel to; they were NOS at the time! I love how the hoods have aged - they are original:

The other one. I simply over-bored the original holes along the sides, then dressed them with a chamfering bit. The middle row of holes was used to guide the milling of the three slots, so, even though these were NOS and the first-ever attempt, a lot of the layout work, if you will, was already done for me

I cleaned up some scratches and then sent this Cinelli 1A off to Jon who milled the round-cut slots and polished it up in an almost perfect match to the finish on the seatpost. Bar is an early-logo Cinelli Giro d'Italia. Cable housings are period correct CLB alloy coils with neat translucent coverings. They are a bit flexy-looking, and I can't recall what the braking was like it's been so long, but they feel okay when testing on the stand:

DD

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Last edited by Drillium Dude; 02-20-21 at 03:27 AM.

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