Well it was another good day with the build
It started with the eyelets falling off the dropouts
from this :
To this (crappy picture alert
) :
Then I thought I would have a go at brazing the dints ... I took a bit of a flyer and tried on the actual forks I am using :shock: I had done a bit of reading up on the net and wasn’t quite sure if my torch was going to be hot enough (butane / propane mix) but as the steel tubes are relatively thin walled they heat up OK / quickly.
After paint stipping the forks I found a few more small dints so I tried one of the smallest ones first. Note my brazing area, the sink
:
And then flatted back :
I was pleasantly surprised with the results (my first ever go at brazing) so as I gained confidence, I tackled the larger dints :
And then :
And then the big one, the braze area is long as there was a few tiny dints close by and the braze areas run into each other :
This photo was taken to show the reflection is true (the black line is the upper fork blade) – as the forks are going gloss black they need to be perfect as the colour is very unforgiving to imperfections :
I was very happy with how they turned out, just need to finish dressing up the welds / dropouts etc and remove the crown race now
WD