Fillet Brazed Schwinn Collection
09-22-15, 04:35 AM
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Since we are on to page two, I might as well put up a picture of "Sporty" my '71 Super Sport Campagnolo project. I really should ride it more.
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09-22-15, 05:42 AM
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Super awesome bikes!
I've always loved fillet brazed frames- I love that look of the tubes flowing into each other.
Thanks for posting them.
Do those Huret ratcheting shifters have a really fine, "micro-ratchet" feel to them? Like finer ratchets than the typical Suntour ratcheting shifter?
I have a set of Sachs/Huret ratcheting shifters- those are awesome- they're shaped differently- but the action is impeccable.
I've always loved fillet brazed frames- I love that look of the tubes flowing into each other.
Thanks for posting them.
Do those Huret ratcheting shifters have a really fine, "micro-ratchet" feel to them? Like finer ratchets than the typical Suntour ratcheting shifter?
I have a set of Sachs/Huret ratcheting shifters- those are awesome- they're shaped differently- but the action is impeccable.
Golden Boy...thanks...and no problem...I will be putting some more on here soon...my son rides a Super Sport, as does a friend of his (I helped them get into these!)...and he is getting my pictures of those as well.
On the ratcheting...I had not noticed it until it was mentioned...but...yes!
09-22-15, 05:53 AM
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I need to get around to shooting an 'after'.
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09-22-15, 06:31 AM
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The shifters used on the '76-'78 Superiors had a patented "retro-friction" clutch design, with a ball-detent adding a "ratchet" feel. They were discussed in more detail here: https://www.bikeforums.net/classic-vi...ion-model.html
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09-22-15, 07:03 AM
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Can someone tell me if the term 'electroforge welding' applies to many of these old Schwinns?
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09-22-15, 11:11 AM
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The bikes discussed in this thread had frames built from 4130 chrome-moly tubing that were fillet-brazed by hand. The more common Schwinn bikes at the time had frames built using low-carbon 1010 steel electro-forged frames.
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09-22-15, 04:45 PM
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Either did I back in the day. I remember looking at the Super Sport and Continental back in '73 and they looked pretty much the same to me. Schwinn didn't really do much to market the differences between the fillet-brazed and electro-forged models besides a terse line in the catalogs. Looking back that may have been intentional given that they were hand-built frames. I don't think anybody else was producing hand-built fillet-brazed frames by the thousands if not tens of thousands, and I'm not sure how many more they would have been able to produce if the demand had been greater at the time.
09-22-15, 05:14 PM
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Here is a better picture of her about 30 minutes before, since this really is a picture thread
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09-23-15, 04:36 AM
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Dang-it! 
So in post 26 at the top of this page I noted that I needed to ride "Sporty" (my '71 Super Sport with the extreme makeover) more. So yesterday I resolved all day that when I came home I'd air up the tires and go for a 20 or more mile ride before dark. I didn't make it 10 feet beyond the garage door! Something was wrong!
Turned out the nut in the jockey wheel had unthreaded, dropping it to the pavement, misplacing the bearing cover, and letting one arm of the cage pivot into the back of the freewheel! Hopefully nothing has bent!
The RD is a Nuovo Gran Sport with a @Henry III custom made long arm attached to handle my wide range freewheel and triple crankset. Maybe tonight I'll have time to see if I can sort all this out.
So in post 26 at the top of this page I noted that I needed to ride "Sporty" (my '71 Super Sport with the extreme makeover) more. So yesterday I resolved all day that when I came home I'd air up the tires and go for a 20 or more mile ride before dark. I didn't make it 10 feet beyond the garage door! Something was wrong!
Turned out the nut in the jockey wheel had unthreaded, dropping it to the pavement, misplacing the bearing cover, and letting one arm of the cage pivot into the back of the freewheel! Hopefully nothing has bent!
The RD is a Nuovo Gran Sport with a @Henry III custom made long arm attached to handle my wide range freewheel and triple crankset. Maybe tonight I'll have time to see if I can sort all this out.
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09-23-15, 05:29 AM
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Dang-it!
So in post 26 at the top of this page I noted that I needed to ride "Sporty" (my '71 Super Sport with the extreme makeover) more. So yesterday I resolved all day that when I came home I'd air up the tires and go for a 20 or more mile ride before dark. I didn't make it 10 feet beyond the garage door! Something was wrong!
Turned out the nut in the jockey wheel had unthreaded, dropping it to the pavement, misplacing the bearing cover, and letting one arm of the cage pivot into the back of the freewheel! Hopefully nothing has bent!
The RD is a Nuovo Gran Sport with a @Henry III custom made long arm attached to handle my wide range freewheel and triple crankset. Maybe tonight I'll have time to see if I can sort all this out.
So in post 26 at the top of this page I noted that I needed to ride "Sporty" (my '71 Super Sport with the extreme makeover) more. So yesterday I resolved all day that when I came home I'd air up the tires and go for a 20 or more mile ride before dark. I didn't make it 10 feet beyond the garage door! Something was wrong!
Turned out the nut in the jockey wheel had unthreaded, dropping it to the pavement, misplacing the bearing cover, and letting one arm of the cage pivot into the back of the freewheel! Hopefully nothing has bent!
The RD is a Nuovo Gran Sport with a @Henry III custom made long arm attached to handle my wide range freewheel and triple crankset. Maybe tonight I'll have time to see if I can sort all this out.
09-23-15, 06:39 AM
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Should be a minor fix. Hopefully I don't get too distracted and pull the chain to clean and lube and then find myself onto the chainrings and freewheel sprockets! I can really get OCD about a clean drivetrain! Even though I probably did a complete cleaning less then 100 miles ago!
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@pastorbobnlnh I hope it gets sorted out and back together with no damage!!!
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09-23-15, 09:24 AM
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Which reminds me to add my High Sierra. Mine is an '88 model. Headtube, downtube and toptube all fillet brazed together. Other points of contact appear to be tig welded.
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09-25-15, 03:51 PM
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Dang-it!
So in post 26 at the top of this page I noted that I needed to ride "Sporty" (my '71 Super Sport with the extreme makeover) more. So yesterday I resolved all day that when I came home I'd air up the tires and go for a 20 or more mile ride before dark. I didn't make it 10 feet beyond the garage door! Something was wrong!
Turned out the nut in the jockey wheel had unthreaded, dropping it to the pavement, misplacing the bearing cover, and letting one arm of the cage pivot into the back of the freewheel! Hopefully nothing has bent!
The RD is a Nuovo Gran Sport with a @Henry III custom made long arm attached to handle my wide range freewheel and triple crankset. Maybe tonight I'll have time to see if I can sort all this out.
So in post 26 at the top of this page I noted that I needed to ride "Sporty" (my '71 Super Sport with the extreme makeover) more. So yesterday I resolved all day that when I came home I'd air up the tires and go for a 20 or more mile ride before dark. I didn't make it 10 feet beyond the garage door! Something was wrong!
Turned out the nut in the jockey wheel had unthreaded, dropping it to the pavement, misplacing the bearing cover, and letting one arm of the cage pivot into the back of the freewheel! Hopefully nothing has bent!
The RD is a Nuovo Gran Sport with a @Henry III custom made long arm attached to handle my wide range freewheel and triple crankset. Maybe tonight I'll have time to see if I can sort all this out.
09-25-15, 04:10 PM
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Lovely!
I've "heard" that the decal shadow can be cleaned up with a Mr. Clean Magic Eraser- it doesn't damage the decal, and cleans up the shadow.
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09-25-15, 05:01 PM
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09-25-15, 05:36 PM
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I've had great luck with the magic eraser. Cleaned up the decals on my 71 Super Sport nicely. This was a few years back and I don't have pictures of before.
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I scrubbed the crap out of my decals with Kitt Scratch Out and it took the yellow off.
Oh, and here's my new 1940 New World. Yeah, I Drewed it with wheels from an even older Raleigh club bike
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The A-S&Co cottered chain rings are really neat.
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09-25-15, 08:37 PM
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Death fork? Naaaah!!
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