No doubt, but to go one question further, isn't it easier to stamp holes and detail into a pressed steel lug or sheet stock compared to IC lugs? Might this be one possible explanation for the different "style" between Riv lugs and the "classics"? Weren't many stampings done on flat sheets which were then bent into circles to make the lugs? (That was the method with the Butler Bi-laminates, right?) My point is that I suspect that the old lugs were considerably worked over and altered as compared to what is done with the Riv lugs, whether the method was cutting, filing or stamping.
Tom Adams, Shrewsbury NJ
Philcycles@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 3/20/06 5:01:43 PM, thomasthomasa@yahoo.com writes:
>Does the fact that the Rivendell lugs are investment castings have anything
>to do with the way they look? Remeber that the Ephrgraves and Hurlowes
>to which the Rivs are being compared were pressed and/or stampings which
>were then embellished with files and hacksaws.
You'd be shocked at how much of that "hand filing" is actually stamped. Phil Brown I know I was in San Rafael, Calif.
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