Re: [CR]Re: bronze welding vs brazing..

(Example: Production Builders:Frejus)

Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2003 09:07:14 -0700
From: "Brandon Ives" <monkeylad@mac.com>
To: Philcycles@aol.com
Subject: Re: [CR]Re: bronze welding vs brazing..
cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org

On Friday, August 01, 2003, at 08:13AM, <Philcycles@aol.com> wrote:
>In a message dated 8/1/03 8:12:19 AM, SoundSourceCDs writes:
>
>>Can anyone tell me why builders like Tesch and Landshark seemed to go from
>>fully lugged to fillet brazed with their frames. Or did they?
>>
>Because they wanted to?

Phil's on right track, but there are a few other factors. I've heard quite a few builders talk about how bored they became of building on a particular style. It's a change of pace. Some of the other factors are that if you cut out the price of good lugs you cut the price of your materials by 30%-40%. Also the flexibility of design is a real bonus in my book. For a long time I thought lugs really were the way to go, but then I got Bill Philbrook frame on loan and changed my mind. http://homepage.mac.com/monkeylad/PhotoAlbum10.html enjoy, Brandon"monkeyman"Ives SB, CA ++++++++++++++++++++ Nobody can do everything, but if everybody did something everything would get done. --Gil Scott-Heron-- ++++++++++++++++++++