Tuesday 14 December 2010

Framebuilding day 2

Enough with the theory and on with the bodging!
Today was about getting the front triangle to look like a triangle and not alphabetti spaghetti.
Fluxed (pink icing) and brazed the seat tube to the bottom bracket shell

Cut the head tube to the right length (second attempt) and slotted the lugs on. Purty ain't it?
Martyn the expert framebuilder checking the alignment (big hammer just out of shot)


Cut the down and top tubes to the right length and mitred the joints so they all fit real nice. Then put them together ready for brazing tomorrow. More pink icing to mix.


Today's new engineering terms - "just a smidge", "that'll do". "i think it'll be OK", "you might want to try that again..."

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