Having read this thread three times over, I have: a. Learned a lot, b. Have one hell of a headache, and c. Now have a reason why I've limited my messing for eight speeds and up to Shimano.
All that interim change stuff is ludicrous! Thirty five years ago I was convinced that we put up with Campagnolo idiosyncrasies primarily for the snob value. I'm even more convinced of that in the intervening years.
__________________
Syke
“No one in this world, so far as I know — and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me — has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.”
H.L. Mencken, (1926)