My wonky Campy shifters; not from around here?

[Michael T]

Hello to all, from Ottawa.

I think that I have an unconventional pair of Campy Record 9-speed brifters.
For this Campy setup there are 10 clicks/detents on the left shifter, 3 on the right shifter. There is no way the right shifter can operate a rear D. No mistake.

Right now they work OK as set up left for the rear and right for the front.
Cables do not need to be crossed.
Cabled so that right operates rear brake and left operates front brake.

Of course, this is the opposite to what is standard here in Canada.
I have understood that some UK applications are switched, but that generally applies to brakes, not derailleurs IIRC.

Would anyone have any insight into this different configuration?
Thanks!

 

[cyberknight]

a photo would help , sounds like they have been put on the wrong way around but its impossible to tell from just the description.
The uk only differs from some countries by the brakes , the right being front and the left for rear but thats only down to which way the cables are routed and not anything within the design of the brifter.

 

[Yellow Saddle]

Have you just acquired them? Are the clicks crist and loud? If yes, then they have been serviced before selling to you and the mechanic made a mistake and reversed the internals.

Perhaps you bought them from someone who wanted to shift the RD from the left.

A swap-out is possible but someone wise once told me, before I tackled my first set of Campy shifter overhauls, that if you get it right the first time, you are God. I didn't get it right the first 300 times.

 

[Michael T]

Thanks for the replies. We'll see if my pics will load....

 

[Michael T]

These were given to me by an old friend, had never used them himself. He received them from an old friend of his who did note that the shifters "weren't quite right", never used them much. That second old friend is not sure of the provenance.
The 10 clicks on the left are crisp and exact, much louder than the right.
The 3 on the right are soft, quiet.
Pictures coming up.

 

[oldandslow]

Agree that photos are needed. Sounds as though they are on the wrong way round, as others have said. Levers are sculpted to be comfortable for their respective left or right hands, so that's a bad idea.

It's no problem to have either side operate the front brake (and the other the rear), but you do that by moving brake cables between the levers, not by swapping the entire levers!

 

[Webbo2]

It says 9 speed on the right hand lever, so you shouldn’t get more than 9 clicks on either lever.

 

[Vapin' Joe]

Agree that photos are needed. Sounds as though they are on the wrong way round, as others have said. Levers are sculpted to be comfortable for their respective left or right hands, so that's a bad idea.

The shifters are on the correct way round, as you can see from the photo. But it appears the internals have been swapped over.

 

[oldandslow]

I didn't know that was even possible.

Rebuilding isn't too hard. I bought a set like that with one lever in pieces, from someone who had tried to rebuild by scavenging a cheap housing from a Veloce set to replace a broken one. That was never going to work, but the result was that I got a sort of 3D jigsaw made up of parts of two entirely different levers that she had failed to swap. It was still not too hard to work it out, once I'd ordered the correct housing from Mercian in Derby.