Interesting to hear about the shoddy brazing of the original QB. Better than new now!
Eric On Sunday, August 2, 2020, Birdman <ien...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sure, I can snap BB photo. The only surprise is that once the paint was > stripped, the frame builder found several gaps in various lugs where the > bronze had not properly penetrated when it was originally built, he got all > of those fixed up. His approach to the BB shell was to saw the old shell > into four separate pieces and then remove each piece from the corresponding > tube. This allowed him to remove the old shell without overheating any of > the tubes. He said it was less of a pain than he had expected, because with > the poor welds, the BB shell pieces came off pretty easily. > > On Sunday, August 2, 2020 at 2:46:16 PM UTC-7 Kainalu V. -Brooklyn NY > wrote: > >> Dreamy... >> I've got a couple jealous 68's that are glad to be a few steps back from >> the scrap yard. Can we get a close-up of the new bottom bracket? Any >> surprises? Was it easier/harder than the builder expected? Thanks for doing >> this >> -Kai > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/ec939a62-d06f-4f2f-a474- > 8d61823001ccn%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/ec939a62-d06f-4f2f-a474-8d61823001ccn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CAHFNW5DxZmzbotPXU9WEaKLUZx4JTM-E_SbXepPSLpaGjWJF%3DQ%40mail.gmail.com.
