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2. the embee oneThe conversion continues. The frame was very nicely aligned to begin with, so I knew that, as long as I did not do something really stupid in this process, I would prob'ly end up with a nicely aligned converted frame. With that said, I really took my time cutting the new slots for the new dropouts, so as to minimize the amount of cold-setting I would have to do.It was a monstrous deep-breath moment, cutting that first dropout out- definitely no going back at that point. As I composed these pages, an over-the-shoulder viewer asked why I did not just heat the old dropouts with the torch until the filler got soft and pull them out intact, rather than the technique of sawing the bulk of the metal out and cutting new slots. Answer is that the old dropouts were brass-brazed, and because the heat necessary to soften brass filler to the liquid, flowing state is dodgingly close to the irreperable-heat-damage point of the cromoly tubes themselves, and knowing that I would have to heat the tubes again to brass-braze the new dropouts in place, I chose to minimize potential damage and subject the tubes to one intense heat cycle rather than two- hence cutting and slotting anew. |
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