Originally Posted by
unterhausen
actually, at that time TIG didn't really have that wide of an influence, and nobody was doing it on bikes until (? speculating) Teledyne stunk up the bike world.
I bought my first nice bike, a Peugeot, back in the early 70s. I remember around 1980 seeing a Kelty back packing frame and trying to figure out what this TIG was. The first Aircraft tubing was welded back in world war 1. And bikes followed not long after, probably not even in 4130 at that time, don't know. Not sure how they built stuff like penny farthings, maybe someone even forge welded them.
I think it's funny about my bias about TIG, because I know TIG welders that have an equal and opposite bias against brazing. At least I recognize my bias is wrong.
Brazing is cool. I can't do without it. Like you I think the process wars are pointless. Mainly because it is obvious they all work.