roaders8214 said:
im really in need to know whether is it possible for the clamped on front derailleurs converted to braze on front d? if yes what are the hings needed to be able to install it??? thanks for ur respond!
FWIW. I am going to take a different approach to answering you query & presume for the moment that you have-or-are-looking-at a frame which has a braze-on mount ...
- AND, that you most probably have a component group which whose front derailleur has a clamp of one-size-or-another. Is THAT right?
Well, the long-and-short is that if YOU are
handy + have some spare money floating around (allow for between $20-to-$30), then you CAN probably convert many front derailleurs from ones which use a clamp to ones which have a braze-on mount ... BUT, there definitely are
caveats ... What you NEED are your front derailleur + an existing braze-on mount which you will cannibalize from another front derailleur (presumably, somehow trashed) ... As you might suspect, it will be less expensive to simply buy a "new" front derailleur which already has a braze-on mount which is suitable for your shifters ...
- NOT all braze-on mounts are created equal ... AND, I have certainlly NOT investigated all the possibilities ...
So, presuming you want to pursue the matter (say, you have a high-priced Campagnolo RECORD front derailleur), then you simply have to unscrew the one bolt on your existing front derailleur's outer pivot, remove the derailleur from the clamp, & put on the braze-on mount of a much more
plebeian post-2001 Campagnolo front derailleur. If you have a Shimano front derailleur, then you can
probably ([COLOR=FF0000]NO GUARANTEES!!![/COLOR]) transfer the cage/etc. to a Shimano 6500/6503 braze-on front derailleur.
- MOST Shimano front derailleur parallelograms are riveted on ... obviously (?), the process of removing the desired cage probably becomes irreversible!!!
You can possibly move a Shimano derailleur mechanism onto a Campagnolo braze-on mount OR clamp ...
- However, I am not sure how-or-if that will affect the indexing.
With THAT information under your belt, the question is ... [COLOR=008000]WHAT derailleur are you trying to modify to fit into a braze-on frame mount? [/COLOR]