Sure seems like it. And of course Jan Heine has solved a 60+ year old Mafac problem. Dude sells 115-dollar rebuild and upgrade kits for the things. I should reach out to them and ask if they'd send them out with my next BQ... paying shipping for 4 grams of aluminum seems a bit much, even for me.

I wonder if you could achieve similar results with the existing washer and a file? I might try it with the Cane Creek (not really) pads I just bought. (20 bucks for 4 @ LBS, and they threw in some eyeball washers, which may or may not work.) Even if they're not great, they've gotta be better than old black 4-dots from the Nixon administration.

--Shannon

* Yes, I'm still trying desperately to avoid the "brute force and ignorance" routine. If you've read the Tragedy of Shannon's Sugino, you'll grok my abject terror at the thought of trying to correctly bend anything.