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I'm the Wiz, and nobody beats me!
The serial is LO7178. After I reached the last layer of grease mushrooms the hub is stamped 56
Well that takes care of the brake lever question. Lots of confusion here on a couple pieces during the last few days and that's all due to Schwinn reusing the serial numbers in multiple years. And not that many years apart! One has to wonder what the heck they were thinking. Or why weren't they thinking! LOL The early post war serial numbers are such a mess and everyone with an early 1948 bike or prior year's Schwinn say their bike is a 1946 model. The early post war C series numbers seem to have been used in the first 3 postwar years starting in 1945.