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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.
M_V
Lovely, really smart. Big fan of the wishbone seatstay. How did you find switching to lugs with brass after fillet joints?
Are you getting your tubing for the stems from Ceeway? I'm guessing it's fairly thick walled tubing?