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I’ve used silver in the lugs, flows easier but it is a bit more expensive. I could do with learning to just put it in the jumping, not all over the surrounding tubes as I must have filed/sanded a fair value of it off!
Other than that, I think lugs definitely make things easier. Because I’m building without a jig, fillet brazing is a bit, stick this to this, then this to that. With the lugs I was able to mock up the entire front triangle before I brazed anything.
Tubing for the stems is coming from LAS aero. It’s 0.053” wall thickness which is around 1.3mm so pretty heavy yeah.
I want to try and make a lighter weight stem for this new bike but the wall thickness determines the ID so I need to stick with that for the clamps anyway.
Faced, chased and reamed at work today.
Want to be able to give it a quick ride before painting it incase I’ve screwed anything (else) up.