Agreed, +2 on Bulldog's reply above.

One thing I try to keep in mind is that with the vintage bicycles, we deal with single bikes at a time, we can be as detail oriented as we have the time and money, to be, about our work on bicycles. These people were working on a production schedule, with the middle to beginnings today's mass production, and of bicycles when you stop to think about it.

Not to try and make excuses for the things mentioned as being found when working on vintage Raleighs, in this thread, but as much as we want things to be spot on, reality tends to be different for this kind of manufacturing. We have better made, more precisely built, bicycles available to us, mostly (BSO from the big box stores not included in any way, form, or fashion.)

Besides, it gives us something to carp about here, and sitting around drinking beers. Goodness knows, we need things to gripe about.

Bill