Originally Posted by
meech151
As to the Trek 1000, what type of bonding agent or glue did they use to glue aluminum tubes together, must have been super-glue. I have seen a few of those frames but never knew they were glued, its a trip that they hold up. Gluing my frames together sure would save me a lot of time, had I known this I never would've started fillet-brazing.
Those Treks used epoxy to hold the frame together. They are internally lugged to provide sufficient contact area in the joints for the epoxy to bond with.