I hadn't noticed this! I liked the fillet brazed junction better too but it definitely looked like a pain in the butt to fabricate. The new lug (old lug - I am sure Allan's right) does have a clean and tidy look too. A friend's Platy has a pretty noticeable blem in the brazing too, maybe evidence it was problematic for Maxway.
On Sunday, 8 October 2023 at 06:54:04 UTC-7 Marc Irwin wrote: > Cost was probably involved. The fillet brazing on the original Platypus > would be very time consuming and more difficult in a factory setting than > connecting a few tubes with lug. > > Marc > > On Saturday, October 7, 2023 at 5:50:25 PM UTC-4 allan....@gmail.com > wrote: > >> [image: 0F3B224F-E805-48D6-9A22-8F51C4323F9C.jpeg]Perhaps they dusted >> off the Betty Foy/Yves Gomez lug… >> >> On Saturday, October 7, 2023 at 3:23:46 PM UTC-4 CoalTrain wrote: >> >>> Looks like the new run of Platy's are getting a lugged top/seat tube, >>> where as the previous models were welded. Very nice. >> >> -- 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/8d73b56b-02b6-40a0-8cb1-527062b80239n%40googlegroups.com.
