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From: Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada - burrrrr!
Bikes: 1958 Rabeneick 120D, 1968 Legnano Gran Premio, 196? Torpado Professional, 2000 Marinoni Piuma
This thread is offering some awful advice, in my opinion.
I have no issue with cold setting a tube but I do NOT pass the stress through a brazed or silver soldered tube/lug joint. The tubing can withstand the stress of cold setting. The brazed or silver solder joint, not nearly as much. And...
Drilling a hole will help to end a crack, that is true. But the death stem got its name for a very good reason. Trying to repair an already weakened one is, in my opinion, not a good idea at all.
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