At 4:57 PM -0700 10/15/08, Jason Cloutier wrote:
>Fred Parr, the framebuilder and framebuilding parts supplier, was
>developing a flux for brazing titanium. This topic was being
>discussed on the Framebuilder's list a couple years ago. Fred
>hasn't participated on that list in quite a while and I've lost
>touch with him, so I don't know if this product ever made it to
>market. I think the idea was to get build titanium frames in a
>classic style (lugs, not TIG welded).
>
>Does anyone have any recent information on Fred PArr or his product line?
I was under the impression that some of Fred Parr's posts were intended as April Fool's jokes, rather than based on actual facts. Certainly his reminiscences of what his father told him about working with Rene Herse in Paris fell into that category. They did not match what my other sources have said about Herse.
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