bikes with sachs engines
Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2002 7:53 pm
Bronze brazed? If my memory is not flawed, they (Rickman frames) were
welded using a 125,000 psi nickel-copper-silver rod. The flux was added
into the flame which made the flame green. I think this is probably about
the same stuff that a friend of mine uses to put carbide teeth on saw
blades. He calls it "silver solder" which is probably nearer the truth
than "bronze braze". Either Certainium Alloys and Research or
Eutectic+Castolin can supply something similar.
Reynolds> In England during the 60s-70s, it seems that anyone who could braze
when> 531 tubing became a motorcycle manufacturer > Reynolds 531 is the English equivalent of SAE 4130 chrome moly but 531 has > more nickel content. All of those frames were bronze brazed (not brass) > which is peculiarly English. I tried to find some bronze brazing rods
> I lived in CA and no one ever heard of such a thing > All the Rickman frames were bronze brazed. > > > > >