Re: [CR]Outside Fork Tangs?!

(Example: Framebuilding:Brazing Technique)

Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 07:35:35 -0600
From: "John Thompson" <JohnThompson@new.rr.com>
Organization: The Crimson Permanent Assurance
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]Outside Fork Tangs?!
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Kurt Sperry wrote:
>>Hetchins did a whole lot of forks with the reinforcing tangs brazed on
>>the outside of the fork blades...
>>
>>Example:
>><http://www.hetchins.org/pix/ALF-10.jpg>
> Can't see why it would really matter which side the tangs were added...

Well, they're certainly a lot easier to admire when they're on the outside... :-)

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-John Thompson (john@os2.dhs.org)
Appleton WI USA