1995 Raleigh Torus with a little bit of anodising.
- Thread starter Rampage
- Start date
The headset was put in today.
Managed to find the correct crown. It was stripped, polished and re-anodised. These Pace crowns are always very good to do. You can see how good a finish it has from the reflections of the wires in the pictures.
The bolts had the top machined off to give a flat surface them polished. They need some washers making so that the heads are flush with the crown.
Managed to find the correct crown. It was stripped, polished and re-anodised. These Pace crowns are always very good to do. You can see how good a finish it has from the reflections of the wires in the pictures.
The bolts had the top machined off to give a flat surface them polished. They need some washers making so that the heads are flush with the crown.
.Thanks, I will be taking it to Warwick.
Finally found the correct crown and it was fairly local, thanks Colin!
The steerer I made from titanium tube, it's mirror polished just to prove that it is possible to mirror polish titanium, because apparently it isn't.
Think we all know the what the forks are now?
The bosses were welded by Danson67 on here, who is the only titanium welder I think that will do smaller jobs in titanium.
Gil_m on here did all the decals, including the custom ones, https://www.facebook.com/retrodecals
And Gordon on here and the chap who owns BML advised me on bonding the dropouts. I will answer your question later syncrosfan!
So, a lot of work from different people went into these, thanks to all of them.
The forks need to decals put on them, top caps making and the decals put on. I will have to cut them down a bit as the axle-crown is around 450mm!
Finally found the correct crown and it was fairly local, thanks Colin!
The steerer I made from titanium tube, it's mirror polished just to prove that it is possible to mirror polish titanium, because apparently it isn't.
Think we all know the what the forks are now?
The bosses were welded by Danson67 on here, who is the only titanium welder I think that will do smaller jobs in titanium.
Gil_m on here did all the decals, including the custom ones, https://www.facebook.com/retrodecals
And Gordon on here and the chap who owns BML advised me on bonding the dropouts. I will answer your question later syncrosfan!
So, a lot of work from different people went into these, thanks to all of them.
The forks need to decals put on them, top caps making and the decals put on. I will have to cut them down a bit as the axle-crown is around 450mm!
syncrosfan
Senior Retro Guru
Hell Yeah! Can't wait to see it finished. Love this build thread.
syncrosfan":1e5m35dt said:
That's a problem I had. I was originally wanted to make pressfit dropouts. But after speaking to a couple of people much more experienced than me we decided on bonded, the originals were bonded as were the titanium prototypes. I've heard there were problems with the dropouts coming unbonded from the titanium legs. The wall thickness of the dropouts I made is around 5mm, the originals were around 1.5-2mm, I made mine thicker so I can drill through the legs and thread the dropouts if needed to have a bolt hold them together.
