Originally Posted by
Andrew R Stewart
Agree with Ceeway being very easy to order from. Got my order this week after only 4 days! And that's across the Atlantic pond.
I do disagree with the comment about pressed (soft) lugs being hard to work with. They are more bendable and cut/file quicker. Granted they often mean that you're using brass (due to the gaps and fit being greater) but when you need to push the angles a lot their malleability is a godsend, and you'd be using brass with cast lugs stretched a lot anyways.
My first 25% of frames had pressed lugs. When I went to cast lugs some things got easier to do, some got harder and the time I spent didn't change much. Andy.
Originally Posted by
Andrew R Stewart
Agree with Ceeway being very easy to order from. Got my order this week after only 4 days! And that's across the Atlantic pond.
I do disagree with the comment about pressed (soft) lugs being hard to work with. They are more bendable and cut/file quicker. Granted they often mean that you're using brass (due to the gaps and fit being greater) but when you need to push the angles a lot their malleability is a godsend, and you'd be using brass with cast lugs stretched a lot anyways.
My first 25% of frames had pressed lugs. When I went to cast lugs some things got easier to do, some got harder and the time I spent didn't change much. Andy.
Point taken that pressed lugs are good. I feel its fair to point out, the origin of the idea that pressed lugs are an inferior product and difficult to work which you have objected to -is in the above quote- not in my shared personal observations and questions.
My speculation (?) about whether lugs might harden
A Little Bit is because steels for scraper burnishers etc can be tempered at lower temps than even silver joints are made at, Ive only built a handful of frames, cutting windows and designs in
some really soft pressed lugsets made me feel they shouldnt be as big but I have also bought prugnats etc were every bit the equal of cast, just seemed to depend. I posted to exchange perspectives rather than stamp authority because i have similar interests to epicbike