"with the nay sayers being led by Jobst Brandt." QUOTE.
The "other side of the coin", has GERD SCHRANER giving us his "Professional", take
on the subject which I tend to discount eg:
1) "A long forgotten art," Oh ya?
2) "pre-tinned iron wire." Dissimilar metals, the iron will pit the stainless steel spoke!
3) "or propane gas soldering torch" He does mention before this about the annealing
problem with the spokes; why take this chance, it's a "how to", publication!
4) He mentions again about the above problem; I suppose that he had forgotten. (in print?)
5) The book was "endorsed", by DT; poorly written, many errors, a "rush job".
Regards,
J T