I'd be interested to hear others' opinions about this; I hope it's true -- ie, I hope fillet brazing is one of the stronger joining methods. Ideas?
Chauncey Matthews used bilaminate construction on my Matthews 1 (Fat tire road bike) and all fillet brazing on the 2020 road bike. Speaking of which: Blast from past? As I Googled bilaminate construction just now, the top entry in a page of irrelevant biochemical links just happened to be this: http://www.halletthandbuiltcycles.com/methods.html Richard Hallet, frame builder, prices in GBPs. Can this be the by now very old Richard Hallet who for decades owned World Champion Bicycles at the intersection of Lead and Yale SE here in ABQ, NM? He was a curmudgeon, but he had the best collection of important old bikes that I've seen, including a pristine, probably repro boneshaker and, in the window, an 1890s men's cycling costume that, he claimed, he repeatedly refused to sell to the Smithsonian. I got onto his good side and he took me a couple of blocks to his warehouse where he had a huge collection of museum-quality historical bikes, including a track frame used by Reg Harris. He also showed me a new-in-box Cyclo rear derailleur, the rod-and-pulley model, notable as much for being NOS as for being a Cyclo rod/pulley rd. He retired and left ABQ circa 2002 -- I gave him a broken Orbit tandem just before he moved. Does anyone know? On Wed, Feb 1, 2023 at 6:24 AM lconley <lcon...@brph.com> wrote: > ... From what I think I know, fillet brazing is stronger than TIG, as it > spreads the stress over a greater area. I think I also read once that > fillet brazing is sometime used over top of TIG -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CALuTfgvtBgJ7PDHzBhe2FcjD8FiQwj77jNUzC-CWMEXsQ%3DS%2BYg%40mail.gmail.com.
