Re: [CR]tapping shifter braze-on on 1953 Claud Butler?

(Example: Framebuilding:Tubing)

Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2007 15:02:01 -0500
To: CR List <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
From: "John Betmanis" <johnb@oxford.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]tapping shifter braze-on on 1953 Claud Butler?
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At 09:18 PM 1/5/07 -0600, John Thompson wrote:
>In a pinch you can grind a common tapered tap to make a functional
>bottoming tap. I have one I use explicitly for lever bosses.

Or more likely, grind a flat end on a broken one. Done that more times than I can remember. ;)

John Betmanis
Woodstock, Ontario
Canada