Re: [CR] KOF Drillium

(Example: Framebuilders:Alex Singer)

Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 21:57:36 +0100
From: "Simon Pulman-Jones" <simonpj@mac.com>
To: Jerome & Elizabeth Moos <jerrymoos@sbcglobal.net>, <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>, Otis <otis@otisrecords.com>
In-Reply-To: <440488.55120.qm@web82208.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [CR] KOF Drillium


And, here, an example of a pretty comprehensive Zeuss 2000 factory drillium job on a triple - all the way through crank arms and spider, with very regular patterns on the rings:

http://www.wooljersey.com/gallery/simonpj/Bespoke+1981/Bespoke+08Feb09296. jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=1

Regards,

Wyndham Pulman-Jones Girton, Cambs., UK.

On 26/5/09 20:59, "Jerome & Elizabeth Moos" <jerrymoos@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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> Very tasteful and sane, but check out the Zeus 2000 arms on my early 80's
> Austro-Daimler Superleicht on the CR site:
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> http://www.classicrendezvous.com/Austria/A-D_Moos1.htm
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> These came from the factory this way. The factory drillium jobs on Zeus 2000
> cranks varied a good bit. These arms are among the more radical ones. Some
> were only deeply milled, sometimes on multiple levels, but not all the way
> through the crankarm. But this is by no means the only pair I have seen that
> were slotted all the way through. I've not heard any reports of an inordinate
> failure rate for Zeus 2000 cranks, so I guess the boys at Eibar knew what they
> were doing.
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> Regards,
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> Jerry Moos
> Bog Spring, Texas, USA
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> --- On Tue, 5/26/09, Otis <otis@otisrecords.com> wrote:
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>> From: Otis <otis@otisrecords.com>
>> Subject: [CR] KOF Drillium
>> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
>> Date: Tuesday, May 26, 2009, 2:36 PM
>> As long as we're on the subject I
>> thought I'd share some millium-drillium pieces I've been
>> working on lately.
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>> I'm trying to subscribe to a "safe and sane" approach with
>> pretty minimal material removal (except for that last stem).
>> There will be no holes punched through crank-arms.
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>> I think it's a cool way to personalize your bike.
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>> http://www.otis.g2solutions.biz/ebayimages/temp-drill-1.jpg
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>> http://www.otis.g2solutions.biz/ebayimages/temp-drill-2.jpg
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>> http://www.otis.g2solutions.biz/ebayimages/temp-drill-3.jpg
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>> http://www.otis.g2solutions.biz/ebayimages/temp-drill-4.jpg
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>> http://www.otis.g2solutions.biz/ebayimages/temp-drill-5.jpg
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>> Jon Williams
>> Grants Pass OR USA