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Offline Faze7-Ade

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How can you tell if it's Hutch ???
« on: October 03, 2009, 12:37 PM »
Just bought a doughnut seat clamp off ebay, and was wondering what make it may be.

It's silver polished, and has a chrome alen bolt, and the only thing on it is "25.4" hand engraved on the inside of the clamp. It's the hand engraving that got me wondering (it's not the sort of thing I'd expect from a cheap taiwan copy).

Does anyone have a hutch seat clamp that could tell me if there are any other markings on the genuine article ?

I'm not worried if it's a copy, as I only paid £6 for it, but it would be a result if it turned out to be made by Hutch......
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Re: How can you tell if it's Hutch ???
« Reply #1 on: October 03, 2009, 12:47 PM »
Saw that and thought about bidding, original hutch clamps were chrome, not polished. The bolt was also 5/16 unc thread. not metric.
I fairly sure of this, others probably know more.
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Re: How can you tell if it's Hutch ???
« Reply #2 on: October 03, 2009, 12:50 PM »
none of mine have any markings.the concentric ones are machined inside where as the ecentric japanese "hutch" stamped ones appear to be forged.
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Re: How can you tell if it's Hutch ???
« Reply #3 on: October 03, 2009, 12:59 PM »
Cheers for the replies.

It's concentric and is machined on the inside too. I think it's polished but I'll take a closer look now  :daumenhoch:

I'm pretty sure it's polished, so I guess that means it's a copy, but it's really nice quality, so will do me fine !
« Last Edit: October 03, 2009, 01:37 PM by Faze7-Ade »
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Re: How can you tell if it's Hutch ???
« Reply #4 on: October 03, 2009, 10:33 PM »
I guess if it doesnt cost an arm and a leg, then its not hutch  :LolLolLolLol:
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Re: How can you tell if it's Hutch ???
« Reply #5 on: October 03, 2009, 10:50 PM »
gis a look
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Re: How can you tell if it's Hutch ???
« Reply #6 on: October 03, 2009, 11:15 PM »
i only wish i knew what concentric meant.lol
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Offline Faze7-Ade

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Re: How can you tell if it's Hutch ???
« Reply #7 on: October 04, 2009, 07:51 PM »
Quote from: HUTCHMAN on October 03, 2009, 10:50 PM
gis a look

Here you go......


Machined inside face with 25.4 dia hand engraving


Nice shine !

What do you think ???
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Re: How can you tell if it's Hutch ???
« Reply #8 on: October 04, 2009, 08:05 PM »
I have had around four or five of these, one was gold & the gold was worn off, so I had it polished, so just because its not chrome does not mean its not Hutch  :daumenhoch:
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Re: How can you tell if it's Hutch ???
« Reply #9 on: October 04, 2009, 08:38 PM »
erm, mine's got a hutch logo on the side :buck2:
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Re: How can you tell if it's Hutch ???
« Reply #10 on: October 04, 2009, 08:58 PM »
from your pics,it looks like it has a tiny flange to stop it being slip all the way over the seat tube.never seen a Hutch clamp like that! like it though.wouldn't say no to it any day of the week.looks nicely made.
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Re: How can you tell if it's Hutch ???
« Reply #11 on: October 04, 2009, 09:00 PM »
the stamped one are the hi cali versions  alot more common
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Offline Faze7-Ade

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Re: How can you tell if it's Hutch ???
« Reply #12 on: October 04, 2009, 09:34 PM »
Quote from: HUTCHMAN on October 04, 2009, 08:58 PM
from your pics,it looks like it has a tiny flange to stop it being slip all the way over the seat tube.never seen a Hutch clamp like that! like it though.wouldn't say no to it any day of the week.looks nicely made.

Yea - it's got the flange alright !

Still, I do like a bit of flange now and again  ;)

Oh well - that'll be a nice copy then. Cheers for your help  :daumenhoch:
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Re: How can you tell if it's Hutch ???
« Reply #13 on: October 04, 2009, 11:39 PM »
if you find that you don't need it,give us a shout,i'll take it off your hands!
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