[CR] Georg Fischer BB shell [was: Same old ID or date my Masi]

Subject: [CR] Georg Fischer BB shell [was: Same old ID or date my Masi]
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Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 23:46:50 -0700
Thread-Topic: [CR] Georg Fischer BB shell [was: Same old ID or date my Masi]
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From: "Mark Bulgier" <Mark@bulgier.net>
To: "Dan Kehew" <dan.kehew@gmail.com>, <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>

Dan Kehew wrote:
> The only other mark on the bottom bracket is GF

and
> The frameset needs another repaint for rust management purposes
> (unless I'm mistaking unsmoothed sandcastings for rust)

And I replied:
> I have an untouched example of the BB shell, and lemmetellya,
> the work they did to make them look nice is fairly amazing.
> Every square millimeter is filed down quite a bit.

Then I realized is that what the world needs is some bad flash-photography of an unfiled Georg Fischer BB shell, so here ya go: http://bulgier.net/pics/bike/FrameParts/GeorgFischerBBshell-0.jpg http://bulgier.net/pics/bike/FrameParts/GeorgFischerBBshell-1.jpg http://bulgier.net/pics/bike/FrameParts/GeorgFischerBBshell-2.jpg

The pics do show just how rough those castings were.

By the way, Georg Fischer is still in business, still making pipe fittings, just not for bikes anymore. http://www.georgfischer.com (I think that part is in the archives already, oops).

Mark Bulgier
Seattle WA USA