Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 13:41:08 -0600
From: "John Thompson" <JohnThompson@new.rr.com>
Organization: The Crimson Permanent Assurance
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]Re: Silver fillited 753 frames
References: <MONKEYFOOD7Lo2VUwWK00000eec@monkeyfood.nt.phred.org> <000c01c5f8ab$9124a0c0$4101a8c0@Compaq>
In-Reply-To: <000c01c5f8ab$9124a0c0$4101a8c0@Compaq>
Mike Mullett wrote:
> The mitres were all filed by hand as they had to be very accurate,
> very tedious and time consuming.
753 is so hard that it wears out cutting tools very quickly. We did a
lot of hand filing as well, as it was easier and probably cheaper to
replace hand files than to resharpen and replace machine cutters on an
accelerated basis.