Beginning steps - deciding what you want to build.
Materials - what to use and where to get it.
Tools - a bare bones set of tools.
Modifying the fork-ends with stainless faces.
Modifying the bottom bracket shell to work with my mix of angles.
Mitering the tubes.
Soldering the main triangle.
Soldering the rear triangle.
Cleaning up the lugs. Complete with lots of pictures of the naked unpainted frame.
Making transfers.
Painting.
Addendum.
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Here's a list of tools I found invaluable in building this bike:
- Tube and lug preparation:
- Black & Decker workmate (a small fold-up bench with inbuilt vise).
- hacksaw.
- 8 inch 2nd cut half round file.
- 8 inch 2nd cut round file.
- length of 28.6mm and 31.7mm OD heavy pipe.
- ball-peen hammer.
- 3/8th inch brass drift.
- vernier calipers.
- steel rule.
- engineers square.
- scriber.
- hand drill and drill bits.
- center punch.
- assortment of G-clamps.
- Soldering:
- Oxy-acetylene brazing kit.
- Silver soldering rods.
- Flux.
- a 4 foot length of 40mm square section extruded aluminium tube (for jigging bits together).
- assortment of sheet metal pieces of various thicknesses for spacing things out.
- engineers protractor.
- assortment of clamps.
- 80 grit emery cloth.
- Clean-up:
- 80 grit emery cloth.
- Dremel tool with an assortment of bits.
- assortment of needle files.
- 180 grit wet and dry emery cloth.
- Scotchbrite pads.
As the title suggests, this is a very bare-bones list. With great care, it's possible to build a straight bike without an (expensive) frame jig. I found I didn't even need tubing blocks to hold the tubes, as my Workmate clamped them adequately well without crimping them.
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