Originally Posted by
Andrew R Stewart
There should be no issues with same size tube fillets if done with the usual care. The sides will have a fillet but it will be internal. Not obvious to the untrained builder but it had better be there. If you can't get this internal fillet with your practice joints (you are going to practice something you haven't done as yet...???) then you shouldn't offer to build this design. Andy.
Thanks Andrew.
Yeah I'm taking internal fillets as a given (from pov of my question) - I find they tend to form more readily on (inside) the side of the join (due to the tight internal angle at that point which I guess creates a heat pocket) than they do on the top and underside, so should be no issues there. I've built a couple of fillet frames plus a few stems (not to mention a whole heap of practice fillets), so I'm fairly confident in the integrity of my joins (well as confident as one can be without having tested them through yrs of riding). It's more the geaneral knowedge side of things where I'm lacking, and you only pick that up through yrs of experience.............or coming on somewhere like here of course
