Originally Posted by
Michael Angelo
I'll have to take a look at the Competition to see if there is a visible line on any of the lugs.
Probably not - the later Comp GS lugs were not as prone to gaps. They might have been investment cast.
The Sports, Superbe, Sprite, et. al, however, were severely prone to it, for Raleigh - during the TI era - hardly filed the weld mark at the bottom of the lug. This isn't present on the 1950's examples, which use different lugs - I'm almost certain they used Hayden blanks during this period.
-Kurt