Subject: Re: Rear Derailleur Mounting Posted by: Scott Baxter on November 24, 2005 at 20:44:11: In Reply to: Rear Derailleur Mounting posted by Scott Baxter on November 14, 2005 at 21:32:29:

Message: I found a much longer bolt in a hardware store and tapped the derailleur's existing stop bolt hole so that I could thread this longer bolt in. The bolt had to be so long though, that it overshot the stop flange on the der. hanger. I then had to bend the bolt up in an arc to get it to but against the stop flange. Job done, and it doesn't look like a kludge until you look right at the bolt. >I'm working on a '66 Raleigh Carlton frameset and want to mount a Suntour VX GT rear der. The dropout has an integral hanger, but the rear der stop bolt is way too short apparently allowing the der to rotate counterclockwise too far, resulting in a lot of chain slack. What are the specs if any for rear der rotational orientation, or how can one determine such a setting? I'm going to try to use a much longer stop bolt and see if I can get it to fix the derailleur against the stop on the hanger, but don't know how long is long enough.