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Thanks! Any suggestions for further mods?
Bottle bosses? I don't know why no one has (yet) designed a frame that is literally covered in them. Just every frame tube covered in bosses all spaced at bottle cage distance.
You could have a super-stable bolt-on frame bag, bottles on your top tube, dry bags on your seat-stays, Stem Cell-type bags bolted on your head tube or at the back of the seat tube. Attach your dynamo-powered lights wherever you like. Unlimited rack options. You can have some sort of insane bolt-on fairings if you need to get aero. It would give you absurdly versatile luggage options. You get the idea.
I'm not saying you should necessarily go that far...
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Alloy as in aluminium? Well you have some different options with aluminium, unfortunately my TIG welder isn't capable of running AC so I can't weld aluminium. But there are loads of welders that can.
As far as I know brazing like I did can't be done, but it's a lot easier to glue aluminium parts together as an alternative.
Aluminium does liquify at lower temperatures so casting aluminium parts is a lot easier than steel actually. I have a casting oven and made some Land Rover parts out of aluminium.
Heat treatment is a bit more difficult though.
@swedeee Thanks! Any suggestions for further mods?