At 1:49 PM -0700 6/29/02, Mark Bulgier wrote:
>Joints to be brazed are heated by fixed torches and come to the
>human already hot, probably too hot
>. . . . (SNIP). . . .
>The video can be downloaded from
>http://bulgier.net/vids/colnago.mpeg
Thanks for the video, quite interesting and quite scary. I watched the video and when the BB assembly came out of the carousel it looked a little too hot. I finished the video and the fork looked a little cooked too. I looked at it again and paused it as the BB came out of the flame, yep that puppy is yellow where the center of the flame was and bright orange everywhere else. I was taught that that was way too hot and by looking at the chart on p.29 of Talbot's book it says that that would place it in the 1700 to 1800 degrees fahrenheit which is cooked by Columbus's standards. Have I just been drinking too much beer in the sun or are the tubes on that Colnago cooked? ciao, Brandon"monkeyman"Ives enjoying the non-el lay weather in Santa Barbara, Calif
PS: I've seen plenty of over heated frames come out "just fine" so this isn't a comment on the "quality" of Colnago, but just on the corners that are cut in sake of production. I still want an early Master.