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

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Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 16:54:00 -0700
To: "davebohm" <davebohm@cox.net>, "'Amir Avitzur'" <avitzur@013.net>, "'framebuilders list'" <framebuilders@phred.org>
From: "Jan Heine" <heine94@earthlink.net>
Cc: 'Classicrendezvous' <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: Re: [CR] [Frame] 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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