Re: [CR]Reynolds 753 question

(Example: Framebuilders:Dario Pegoretti)

Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 17:21:12 +0000
Subject: Re: [CR]Reynolds 753 question
From: "Hilary Stone" <hilary.stone@blueyonder.co.uk>
To: Chris Beyer <beyerc@mail.volvo.com>, garry nold <lksbks@ix.netcom.com>
Cc: Classic Rendezvous <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
In-Reply-To: <3C04F3A7.2AD5F862@mail.volvo.com>


More than one builder has built lugless 753 frames in Britain - Argos here in Bristol built a few and so has Dave Yates in Newcastle. Both used silver solder for very small fillets - silver does not build up like the bronze alloys so the fillets are always miniscule. If the fillets were large I am sure they would be bronze.

Hilary Stone, from the home of silver soldered frame construction, Bristol - Thanet Cycles based in Bristol were probably the first to use silver solder for frame construction and the very early Silverlights were lugless!
>
> garry nold wrote:
>
>> He is the only builder that I know to be Reynolds
>> 753 certified for fillet braseing.

Chris Beyer added:>
> Huh? 753, as I understand it, is suitable only for silver-brazing, and I
> don't
> recall ever having seen any mention of anyone fillet-brazing with silver. The
> equivalent tubing suitable for fillet brazing (bronze/brass) is 853.
>
> Framebuilders on the list: your recollections match mine?