Originally Posted by
unterhausen
I think the powder coater may have had a little trouble underneath the stays.
I don't understand that first picture at all though. The sharp edge has a discontinuity in it in the pic. Can you take another picture from closer to the downtube looking up at it?
It looks competently done and doesn't look like it's cracking. Could have had a little more filler on the bottom. That is one joint where I don't believe in filing, I just move the filler around with the torch until it looks good. Takes a little effort, but with the right amount of filler it just lays in as a nice fillet. Well, to be honest, my motto is "no file." I like the looks of surface tension at work.
I'll try for another photo, but it may be a while before I can get to it. I'm on Long Island for the summer.
The discontinuity you see, in the edge, is a fairly large flake of powder coat peeling up. The powder coat has split somewhere in the crevice where you can't see, and along a crescent shaped crack on the outer surface. It's hanging by a narrow bridge at the bottom.