Re: [CR]RE: Silver in europe

(Example: Framebuilders:Tony Beek)

From: <OROBOYZ@aol.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 09:55:18 EST
Subject: Re: [CR]RE: Silver in europe
To: dirk.feeken@sap.com, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org


In a message dated 3/26/2004 3:43:34 AM Eastern Standard Time, dirk.feeken@sap.com writes:

<< In fact ALL still brazing german frame makers ("our KOFs") use nothing else than 56% silver brazing. Don't know if this really makes sense or if it's just a marketing thing.

http://www.marschall-framework.de/frames/frame_raeder.html http://www.norwid.de/html/randoneur.html http://www.guylaine.de/ http://www.noell-fahrradbau.de/renn_index.htm http://www.krabo.de/max.htm

..but you might be right for the traditional italian brands who doesn't braze anymore. >>

Hey Dirk: Yes, I was not talking about modern builders but those who are in the CR time span or continuation of older enterprises. Most contemporary one man shops will use silver as it is a more "civilized" joining material in the sense that clean up and defluxing is more sanitary, it works best for the extremely thin modern steels and the builders can pass the more substantial cost along easily.

Dale Brown
Greensboro, NC