Re: [CR]Question for all you frame builders on the list

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From: <Philcycles@aol.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 00:05:46 EDT
Subject: Re: [CR]Question for all you frame builders on the list
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org


In a message dated 4/15/01 9:17:11 AM, Wornoutguy@aol.com writes:

<< My question is when you talk about filed lugs do they actually file them all around on the outside to thin them? Do they round the edges? What else should I do to this frame before assembly that would make it Special. >>

All of the above. Some like the well filed look a la Eisentraut, some like a fuller look. I like a little filing with a defined edge. It's all what you like. One practical consideration: a thin lug edge is harder to braze than a
thicker one.
Phil Brown