Re: [CR] [Frame] How was Philippe's Adjustable Stem Made?

From: "davebohm" <davebohm@cox.net>
To: "'Jan Heine'" <heine94@earthlink.net>, "'Amir Avitzur'" <avitzur@013.net>, "'framebuilders list'" <framebuilders@phred.org>
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 17:12:07 -0700
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Subject: Re: [CR] [Frame] How was Philippe's Adjustable Stem Made?

Naw, I misunderstood....I flipped flop my French builders.

But I did modify/fix a Rene Herse stem from a 1975 demountable and it was definitely fillet brazed.

Dave Bohm

-----Original Message----- From: Jan Heine [mailto:heine94@earthlink.net] Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 4:54 To: davebohm; 'Amir Avitzur'; 'framebuilders list' Cc: 'Classicrendezvous' Subject: RE: [Frame] [CR] How was Philippe's Adjustable Stem Made?

At 2:36 PM -0700 4/20/10, davebohm wrote:
>I have only repaired one Rene Herse stem and interestingly enough it was
>fillet brazed but the filler metal was very copper in color compared to what
>we typically use today.

You mean "Alex Singer" stem. Since Roland Csuka died, the Singer stems have been fillet-brazed. So yours probably was a post-1994 stem.

Jan Heine
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