About a week ago I mentioned a marked difference in wall tube thickness between my Plain Guage Jack Taylor and '38 Bates New Club (non Cantiflex Poor Man's Bates). I was just curious about it. Got some interesting replies from Norris, Colin Laing, and couple others. The best explanation came from Colin who used to work there. He said for the economy models Norman would grab any ol tube left over from previous builds and cut it to length. Sounds good to me. Here's the address to my Flickr site for those of you who are sweatin' blood over this mystery. I've put in photos of both seat tubes.
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Craig Montgomery
Tucson