Is there a shim to convert a 31.8mm front mech clamp for use on a 28.6mm tube?

[Pumpkin the robot]

Just because people say it, doesnt make it right!

 

[eck]

I was looking for a shim to reduce a Campag mech from 35 to 31.8mm, and found the link up there to the SJS site: http://www.sjscycles.co.uk/wheels-m...-front-derailleur-shim-prod18555/?src=froogle
(OK I know it's not the correct size). But are they serious: £17.99 for a bit of bent metal?

 

[screenman]

You would not want my prices for unbending a bit metal.

 

[Profpointy]

If everybody calls them that then I think there is an argument for their existence. Consensus is how we arrive at the usage of words. If it gets used enough and put into print there's a good chance the O.E.D. will include it in their publication as a perfectly cromulent word. Would you rather be French with their Acadame Francaise or whatever they call it?

If they've not got a vernier on them they can't really be vernier callipers can they?

 

[Profpointy]

the latest moore & wright ones can display fractions, as do some cheapy ones - whilst you and i both can do .25 or .625 easily enough not sure I'd spot 11 /64" without working it out

 

[Pumpkin the robot]

Truth be told, I dont think many people actually know what a vernier is.

 

[Profpointy]

Truth be told, I dont think many people actually know what a vernier is.

until pointed out above I'd not made the logical deduction that digital (vernier) callipers wouldn't be verniers (as well) - though now I think about it, my digital height gauge doesn't have a vernier.

 

[eck]

If everybody calls them that then I think there is an argument for their existence. Consensus is how we arrive at the usage of words. If it gets used enough and put into print there's a good chance the O.E.D. will include it in their publication as a perfectly cromulent word. Would you rather be French with their Acadame Francaise or whatever they call it?

Ah, France, "where definitional exactitude passes for progress".
Anyway, fascinating though this discussion on the correct nomenclature of yon calliper thingies seems to be, I hope you don't mind me interrupting by saying you'll all be delighted to know that I've solved my problem.
Carry on.....

 

[Cyclopathic]

If they've not got a vernier on them they can't really be vernier callipers can they?

Decimated means to reduce by 1/ 10th but is commonly used to mean all but destroyed. Stuff changes innit.

 

[Dan B]

Truth be told, I dont think many people actually know what a vernier is.

Some kind of drinks glass, right?