Tom Sanders wrote:
> In the earlier discussion of submitting 753 frames for certification Doug
> Fattic had written "You had to supply them a complete bicycle frame in
> which they did destructive testing." At some point the destructive testing
> must have ceased, because I have had builders put their "Certification
> Frames" into my hands and they certainly were all of a piece. Was it found
> that the destructive testing was too extreme a criteria? When might this
> have been decided?
When I did it in the early 80s you only had to braze and submit single joint, which was then destructively tested by Reynolds. They sold kits for this purpose -- a lug and a couple tube ends for ~US$75 including the cost of testing.
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John Thompson (john@os2.dhs.org)
Appleton WI USA