greg3rd48 

Hi,
I picked up this Campagnolo RD and set of brake levers at my LBS for a low price since they were in their recycled parts bin. I would appreciate any info on these parts so that I know what I should/could use these with and also when they are from. Is the derailleur from a 6 speed freewheel or is it newer? Once again any insight is much appreciated.

Bianchigirll 

The levers look like Super record and I am pretty sure the RD is an early Athena. Unfortunately it looks like the B tensioner thingie is already broken

Pars 

The RD may be a Campy Xenon
VeloBase.com - Component: Campagnolo F010, Xenon

The levers look like Super Record, maybe with Modolo anatomic hoods?
VeloBase.com - Component: Campagnolo Super Record, Super Record (long reach)

Pars 

Bianchigirl might be right on the RD
VeloBase.com - Component: Campagnolo Athena

Henry III

Wait they made you pay for them even though they were going to recycle them? What a rip...

greg3rd48 

Haha well I guess it is an erroneous name for the bin. More like a used parts bin. I hope that the RD is still usable. If it is functioning could I use this with an 8 speed cassette and friction shifters? Is it worth holding onto the levers or would they made good trade material? Pretty much the only Campy parts that I own are a couple of '70's DT shifters and the Campy Athena crankset and derailleurs on my '94 Cannondale R600.
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cyclotoine

I am sure the levers would make fine trade bate. I find it difficult to tell if the tab is broken in the photo. If it isn't that is pretty unusual. I would sooner trade this derailleur to someone who is trying to put that group together (highly unlikely) than use it myself for fear of the tab snapping as they are so notoriously known for. That said, if you are gentle with it, it should work on an 8 speed cassette in friction mode no problem.

greg3rd48 

Geez I hope that it isn't broken. I just saw it and figured "why not?". If nothing else I will return it if the "thingie" is broken. :-)

onespeedbiker

The brake levers are Super Record and the derailleur is first model Athena; the adjustable "bushing" (which looks good to me) is for a B adjustment. Prior to this Campy did not believe that a inline parallelogram needed a B adjustment; this same bushing was placed on the Victory rear derailleur and the C-Record also had a B adjustment with a different configuration. The first model Athena was made to compete with Suntour's slant parallelogram. In stead of a drop parallelogram being slanted down like the Suntour patent, Campy created a inline derailleur with the parallelogram slanted back with a downward arc; Campy called it the "Lateral Operating System". Combined with the B adjustment bushing (Campy called this a Multi-Function System and the B adjustment was "inclination") you could adjust the derailleur to follow close to cogs as they slanted downward, from a max cog of 20t to a max cog of 30t. It actually works very well and is one of my favorite derailleurs.

dddd

Athena from this era was a decent indexing derailer if you had a shifter with the correct indexing ring in it for your choice of freewheel.

The B-tension stop at the mounting bolt has a catch tooth on it that you position inside of the toothed bore of the derailer knuckle according to your maximum sprocket size.

I can't see from the photo that there is anything wrong with it, though it is currently in the position that it would fall to if the tooth/teeth were sheared off.
As it sits, seems to be set for a racing corn-cob style of freewheel.

My Xenon rear derailer is a dimensionally-exact copy of your Athena derailer, made from a bit lower material quality and painted silver/gray instead of bare metal. It indexes an S.I.S. 7s freewheel quite well enough, but did require a narrower 9s chain since the indexing ring has a slightly-different cog-spacing standard than Shimano, for use with "Campagnolo/Regina-standard" 7s freewheels.

Ultimately I was thoroughly impressed with how well that the lowest-level Xenon gruppo performs.

Xenon gruppo here (check out those plastic brake levers):

Bianchigirll 

I believe Xenon was mostly trickle down Athena with some cheaper steel parts and that powdercoat finish.