Originally Posted by
noglider
Also, is the bell dome brass? If it's not, I won't use it, now that I've learned of the magic of brass bells. But maybe I could replace the dome. Oy, how many more unfinished projects do I need?
I have several bells without brass bells, work fine. One started out with a brass colored coating on it, now a decade later the accumulated sunlight has destroyed that coating layer so now it looks silver. And the plated steel parts were so rusty that I took it apart and sprayed the steel parts (which is everything except the bell part) black. Still works great. This one started out sized for a 22.2mm bar, I bent the steel to make it accommodate a 31.8mm bar, which meant needing to buy longer M4 screws.
Photo is six years old, before I sprayed the steel parts black. I have very similar bells on four or five bikes, a couple are red. Now the plated nut on top was rusty too, painted it with black nail polish.
But you can't hide an Air Tag in that bell.