Richard,
You might be interested to know that the noted frame builder
Francisco Cuevas made his own brake cable guides out of
automotive, stainless steel brake tubing.
I saw him make some on a couple of occasions. He did it all
by eye without using a pattern.
Cheers,
Fred Rednor - Arlignton, Virginia (USA)
> Well, the painter was waiting with breath held while I
> searched every site
> for vintage parts I could find, plus going through a friends
> warehouse of
> almost 800 old bikes and came up with nada, zip, zulch. So I
> made it myself
> and it turned out nicely thankyou very much. The painter was
> incredulus,
> "You make this!" I would never have attempted such a thing
> if I hadn't
> spent the last six months studying the Paterek Framebuilders
> Manual. The
> guides appear to be stamped from flat stock and rolled into
> shape. However,
> I chose to use stainless tubeing and shape it using a pattern
> made with tape
> applied to one of the originals and transferred to the new
> tubing. I'm not
> a silver brazer by any means, or for that matter a metal
> worker at all up to
> now, but managed to get this piece attached successfully.
> Sense I intend to
> use the bike myself and not sell it as vintage, I'm not
> concerned with this
> method. So please ignore my request for this guide.
>
> Richard Long
> Temecula, CA
> USA
>
>
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