[CR]Now:Filet brazed lugless Was:"Mojo" or B. S. Confente/Baylis/Herse

(Example: Framebuilding:Tubing)

Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2002 13:45:56 -0700
From: "Chuck Schmidt" <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net>
To: Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
References: <00a801c22783$967452c0$4e8d56d8@sterlinp>
Subject: [CR]Now:Filet brazed lugless Was:"Mojo" or B. S. Confente/Baylis/Herse

Sterling Peters wrote:
> (cut) This best reason for not brazing the tubes inside the head tube is all the extra work , only Rene Herse and Alex Singer were willing to go the extra mile.

I know that in the 1980s Santana Tandem and Peugeot did filet brazed lugless frames and put a brass ring inside the tube, which then melted during the brazing process to make a filet inside the mitered junction. I don't know how common this trick was...

Chuck Schmidt SoPas, SoCal

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