Campag Centaur skeleton brakes fine adjustment - Help!

[Old Geezer]

If you have Campagnolo Centaur 10-speed Skeleton Brakes, please help.

The rear brake has a fine adjustment screw on the off-side (I believe this was moved to the top on later/higher spec models). I recently had to remove my rear brake and re-fit it. On trying to fine-tune the centering, I found that the spring arm kept slipping off the adjustment screw. Closer inspection showed that the adjustment screw simply has a ledge, which pushes against the arm of the spring, the spring lodging against it on the bike-frame side of the brake. [I have tried fitting the spring arm on the other side, and it doesn't go.] This seems such an inadequate arrangement that I wonder if I am missing some component. The front brake is different, having a slotted component on the end of the screw that cups around the spring arm.

Please can anyone confirm whether I am missing a part?

Thanks,

J.

 

[RecordAceFromNew]

Perhaps you could check with page 60 of this?

 

[brockers]

You're not missing a part; it's just an odd design which I can't see the point of. I've found that using the little centreing key on the brake arm is such a faff - a couple of turns and the screw is at the end of its adjustment range anyway - so it's easier to avoid using it entirely and to align your brakes by tweaking the 15mm centreing nut.

 

[Old Geezer]

Many thanks to you both. Actually I had already checked the Campag parts diagram, but it's not detailed enough to answer my question. Brockers, you have confirmed what I suspected - thank you very much. Amazing that these things are still not perfect, after such a long history.