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A dawning realisation that I'm not likely to get access to the brazing facilities again at work before I leave in July means I'm looking for another solution.....
An 853 frame that is stripped, prepped and ready and needs some braze ons and a couple of cable guides added. Then a respray/power coat. Turning an old mk1 Niner Sir9 into a sort of Rohloff world traveller meets bikepacking beast.
Where would you send it that might look at within the next few months? No where I know of local to where I currently live (Hampshire) or where I'll live in a couple of months (Highlands) so I guess it will be a post it job.
Thanks
Brilliant - thanks!
Lee Cooper did the work on my frame before I bought it, disc brake tabs and shortened head tube. Looks a good job.
https://leecoopercycles.webs.com/repairsandbrazeons.htm
Thanks again
I just remember Ben at Kinetics who is occasionally on here - would love to give the work to someone who really needs it at the moment.
He seems to be doing OK
was about to suggest fivelandbikes
Depends what you are doing - if just cable guides and bottle bosses then silver solder is fine with a MAPP gas plumbing torch (actually easier to control as you don't need loads of heat). Bottle bosses can just be made out of M5 nuts, ideally with half the hex flicked in a lathe to a circle so they locate in 6.5mm ish holes drilled in the tubes.
But I'm presuming you might also want a Rohloff specific dropout which is a bigger undertaking.
Argos Cycles in Bristol.
https://argoscycles.com
See renovations/refurbs/resprays.
If you are on the Dorset side of Hampshire then order the bits you want and mark the frame up where you want them and I can do it for you. Happy to do braze-ons but if you want dropouts swapping too then I haven't currently got time to do those.
Depends what you are doing – if just cable guides and bottle bosses then silver solder is fine with a MAPP gas plumbing torch (actually easier to control as you don’t need loads of heat). Bottle bosses can just be made out of M5 nuts, ideally with half the hex flicked in a lathe to a circle so they locate in 6.5mm ish holes drilled in the tubes.
But I’m presuming you might also want a Rohloff specific dropout which is a bigger undertaking.
You have got me thinking now! I have got a MAPP torch to hand - I could just go buy some silver solder and silver flux (am assuming sifbronze flux won't cut it with silver rods) and bodge sort it myself.
If you are on the Dorset side of Hampshire then order the bits you want and mark the frame up where you want them and I can do it for you. Happy to do braze-ons but if you want dropouts swapping too then I haven’t currently got time to do those.
Very kind. If I fail miserably (and I've not knackered the frame!) I'll get in touch. And no - dropouts are fine (frame has a eccentric BB and I'll use a speed bone) - it's just the bosses and braze ons.
55% Johnson Matthey silver on ebay is good stuff. Usually supplied with a little bag of flux powder to mix with water into a paste. Cover everything in flux paste before applying heat. Hardly any heat colour required - just very dull red tint. The flux goes clear when you approach the right temperature. Too hot and you burn the flux / need to start again.
I also sometimes use little cut up bits of brass tube from B&Q to run cable through in lieu of properly guides. I'm sure me of jonm81 could post you a few hose guides etc if needed (ceeway shipping stings for small orders).