Originally Posted by
Iride01
I don't know that they are getting scarce. I just find that the older bike shops have bins where they keep miscellaneous old and new parts that they will always have extra left over from components they've had to install or such.
They seem more likely to just give me such things than the big shops where you barely ever see the mechanic. I usually buy gloves, socks, chain oil, tubes or something when they do stuff like that for me.
Well, we got one donation in today that had the same "Diver's helmet" fitting but missing the reduction ferrule (thank you @
Rolla), fortunately we have quite a few variations and was able to find one in our salvage stock to get the bike back on the road. Last time I went to that box was help someone else here on the Bike Forums.
