When DALE sez
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> Look at this!
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> http://www.popularmechanics.com/
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...you LOOK dammit!
Dale,
You're always going on about rules! Rules for this, rules for that, KOF rules... What next?! ;)
Seriously though, Cool article.
I suppose some picky know-it-all is going to point out the incorrect photo captions, like where it says he's assembling the tubes in the jig before brazing, but he's actually aligning a frame after brazing. Or where it says he's applying silver flux and it's really brass flux.
That wiley e-Richie, he probly told the poor magazine writer incorrect info on purpose, he likes to do that. What a kidder!
The funniest one is where he says that, what builders with a milling machine don't know, is it "can't do the work for them". Dude, have you ever SEEN a milling machine? If it doesn't do the work for you, it's broken.
OK I better add, for those who can't tell I'm kidding, that I like and respect Richie and have gotten my drool on his frames lotsa times, til he asked me to stop that. (Ha, I originally typed that I got my droll on his frames) (Also in fairness I should point out I'm liberally misquoting the article, for comic effect. C'mon, like you never do that? Please.)
Once I raced Glenn Erickson, he filed a miter and I cut one on the milling machine at the same time. I think he might have actually beat me by a little (don't remember for sure) but I think we called it a tie because mine was a little more accurate.
The Pop Mech article states Sachs joints are "hand-mitered so that each end fits perfectly". Damn I wish I knew how he does that. I used to get mine to within a millionth of an inch of perfect, but never achieved perfection. That's why Sachs makes the big bucks I guess.
Of course only Chuck Norris can hand-miter with just his hands.
Mark Bulgier
Seattle WA USA