Hullo,
Freddy is still around. He still sells flux and brazing alloys. All very fine products.
I'm pretty sure he was not joking about a flux to braze titanium to stainless steel. I believe it already exist in the exotic world of aerospace. Freddy told me it would be a two-part compound and very expensive.
Try Googling Brazage, or CycleDesign.
Cheers!
James Valiensi
Northridge, CA USA
On Wednesday, October 15, 2008, at 05:58PM, "Jan Heine" <heine94@earthlink.net> wrote:
>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.
>
>Jan Heine
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