Techniques
Tube Mitering on a Lathe – Update 2
Tube mitering is a fundamental part of custom frame building and I am sure there is always a need to be able to produce good ...
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Framebuilder Tooling – Using a Milling Machine
A Milling Machine is usually the second major machine tool any aspiring metalworker will obtain, after a lathe. More correctly known as a vertical mill ...
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Polishing Stainless Steel – Updated
I love using stainless steel because I have always hated rust and especially when used for dropouts, fork crowns and brake bridges. It means your ...
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Making a template to mitre Seat Stays
I wish there was a clever software program to produce mitre templates for complex seat stay mitres. However it only recently occurred to me to ...
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Oxy Acetylene – some observations from an amateur framebuilder
By Neill Hughes 1 – The projects: I’ve built a couple of steel bicycle frames using fillet brazing as the tube joining method. I use ...
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Flux Removal – Updated
Probably most novice framebuilders use flux and getting it off can be particularly tedious. I admit that I have only used cycle design fluxes for ...
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Vents and Drain Holes
There seems to be some disagreement as to when and where it is necessary to drill holes in a bicycle frame, so I decided I ...
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David Mercer – Mercer Bikes, Cape Town, South Africa
I met David Mercer at the Bespoke Bike Show in London in April 2014. I was impressed with the bicycle he had brought to the ...
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Brass, Silver and Flux
Thus far I have used the following filler rods and fluxes on my projects and suspect they are the most widely used: BRASS: SIF 101, relatively ...
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Hot and Cold setting
The only adjustment needed on the first frame I built on my course was to adjust the chain stays for wheel twist before fitting the ...
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