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@Rik_Van_Looy
I let him keep the change
I felt it reinforced the fact that demonstrated how happy I was with my side of the bargain.
In hindsight I should have requested the penny ....
Being a bit impatient I wanted to get cracking and stick the dropouts back on...
Since I'm a died-in-the-wool cheapskate This bike ain't going near an actual framebuilder... Below my lab we have a little workshop area which has some natural gas/compressed air torches.
I'm not exactly Ricky Feather when it comes to torchmanship and barely know which end of the torch to put in my mouth, Not done it since school etc - (#excusesexcuses).
Anyway at lunch today I found some flux and solder sanded the paint off and started filling the crack with silver solder. It was all going well when I noticed the frame was on fire....
The inside of the frame burned merrily away and when the flames died down I observed that everything that wasn't cracked steel been filler, not 853...
It looks like the little drainage hole inside the seatstay had got blocked, the frame filled with water and rusted from the inside out... someone has then filled the absent metal with plastic padding
I'll get some photos of the war zone once I've recovered from my disappointment....
Then it'll be time for some gussets