That is awesome! Congrats on the progress!
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That is awesome! Congrats on the progress!
"friday night lights"
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my "throw away frame" is finished, refinished ! for fun and training...
Hi
First of all, congrats for the result and more than nothing for having the patience to build test frames. And I love the friday light result! ;)
About welding, well, I'm not the most experienced at all, and for sure your father knows a ton on that, but just in case it can be of any help, my experience with thin steel has been that using stainless 1mm wire not only makes for a more reliable weld, but also kind of easier to keep a thin bead and faster speed, so you avoid overheating (too matt colors).
Also, for the ss-st join, wich is one of the worst pains of all, if you can get a gas lensed torch with a 8-10mm cup, gas coverage will be much better and allows you to take the tugnsten quite out and reach sharp tight angles without losing gas protection.
Again, congrats for your work and I hope to see more. I love seeing some eurotrash here! ;)
A bien tôt!
Thank you and you're right for the two points : I used now a 1mm wire on the second test-frame (and not throw away frame I hope) and after a post on gaz saver I tried a gas lensed torch with 7 and 8 mm cup, 7mm seems to be enough and good for tight angles... It's difficult to imagine but I used these on SS-ST of the "frame" on the previous pic, but I made the joins twice to find and improve my placement with the torch, it was not easy, so the overheating is impotant...
Sorry I was too busy to introduce the bike... Thanks to this frame I learnt a lot, MAX bi-oval tubes, thin CS ans SS... It was a great experience and not the last I hope... my next frame is for my father, a light frame with OS Zona 7/10eme tubeset.
Nice work! You must be doing good with the tig welding, that's some pretty thin tubing. You must have you heat control figured out, I'm sure it will ride great:)
cheers
andy walker
Attachment 66048A new project for one of my best friends : he would like a rigid bike for training near Paris, in "chevreuse valley" and on the "Rungis track"... So MAX front triangle was mandatory, and a rear in Zona with MTB seat tube. New for me : TIG dropouts and thanks to master Dario a D11 headtube which match perfectly with MAX tubes and works fine for welding. Soon other pics
Attachment 66065Attachment 66066Attachment 66063Attachment 66064Attachment 66067]more pics with Easton 90SL fork... ready for campy grouset...
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This guy not only builds bikes. He rides them fast. And he flies airplanes! What an amazing man! ;-)
It looks really nice. Who does the painting? BTW, those dropouts are huge. No stiffness issues there I'd say.
The painting is made by a motorcycle painter... He does a good job and he likes the old school schemes so everybody is happy !