KIF Endstone size for Venus 188.

[DBROWN]

Hello all, 

I'm in the process of putting a Venus 188 back to together and discovered that the end stone in the upper KIF shock setting is missing. I also managed to make the shock spring fly away to neverland whilst I was fiddling with it.  Does anyone know the size of the end stone? Or the shock springs for that matter?  I can measure the lower end stone and see if it is will fit in the upper setting but i was not sure of the thickness as they can be different.  I can't find any documentation listing the Venus 188 and the KIF part numbers.

Thanks,

Darren Brown

 

 

[mikepilk]

Looking on Cousins, they don't have Venus in their KIF documents. But they do have Valjoux

What year is it? Ranfft says from 1966 it's the same as a Valjoux 7730

 

[DBROWN]

I went down that road but the picture of the shock setting on Ranfft looks different than the Venus 188 I have and the Valjoux 7730 is not listed in Cousins documentation anyway so no love there.