Hooded dropout question

[Erasmus]

I picked up these hooded dropouts from Nova and am planning a build with them, however I can't seem to make sense of what these little tabs are for on the CS face of the hood. The CS doesn't seem to mate nicely on sitting on top of it, nor does it seem like it would slip into the CS. It appears to me that none of the PMW hoods have this. Can someone shed some light to me on what the purpose of these tabs are?

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[Amaro Bikes]

That's ok, I guess those are the original Breeze ones.

Depending on the cs diameter it would fit inside of the mitered chainstay and give some more surface in case you braze it. With my chainstays do usually go fine and do not disturb. But if they don't fit with your chainstays or simply you don't like it just take the files and let them go, it will last not even a minute before you got perfectly roud dropout and nothing happened here! ;)

Cheers

[Will Neide]

I have those dropouts and I filed them off.

[EricKeller]

plugged dropouts usually require some adjustment with a file. Better to have plugs that are too big than too small

[Erasmus]

Thanks for the replies. I figured they were a fashion of plug, but wasn't certain. I'm tigging them, so ill probably just file them off.

[Eric Estlund]

Also provides handy dandy indexing to help insure the drops are clocked to the same position relative to the stays.