Originally Posted by
jethro56
One thing that really slowed the project down (6 weeks) was an idiot at at LBS made it sound as though the headtube required reaming and refacing. They didn't have the tooling and messed around getting it. I even sent them this.
http://surlybikes.com/info_hole/spew...ur_steel_frame After too many "The tools will be here in two weeks." I realized I was the bigger idiot. I went and got my frame back. I took it to another LBS and 20 minutes later had the BB Faced and Chased.
FWIW, I've turned a number of bare frames into bicycles over the last few years and I've yet to find one that needed any reaming, facing, or chasing. My Nashbar double-butted aluminum touring frame is about as cheap as they come and the factory prep was good enough that I didn't have to do any additional work to it...