In New Zealand in the 70s & 80s, Healing Industries built thousands of fillet brazed ten speed frames. When I visited the factory (for the closing down auction in 1990), there was no sign of any preheating apparatus, but there were several brazing stations equipped with big, dodgy looking gas fluxers. The frames were pretty ugly- the fillets were left unfinished, but back in the day the price was right. DB Auckland, New Zealand
Brandon Ives wrote:
> At 8:05 PM -0700 7/21/02, Mark Bulgier wrote:
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>> Brandon Monkeylad Ives wrote:
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>>> Was there ever a real production fillet brazed frame?
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>> Schwinn, Lambert/Viscount and Santana come to mind as brands that sold
>> thousands of fillet bikes.
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> I guess I wasn't clear on what I meant on production. Methods like
> automated carrousels (Like seen in the video "Bicycle: A History of
> Invention") and some hearth brazing where the joint area is heated as
> one unit and the human's job is to put brass into the joint. Basically
> can a frame be fillet brazed by any other method than a human with a
> torch in one hand and a brazing rod in the other. Sorry about an
> confusion.
> enjoy,
> Brandon"monkeyman"Ives
> SB, CA