Im in the process of stripping a Flying Scot down in prep for a new paint job
Being new to stripping down 50-60 year old bikes is the brazing would become apparent and id see how it was all made
Except the ends of the forks and its beginning to look the ends at the dropouts might have been originally chromed. Reason for think this is where the dropouts are brazed in there is not brass braze. Its there in other sections of the tubing but the ends seem to be two tone base metal and i wondered if this difference in colour was due to it maybe being chromed at the front/rear dropouts and a bit up the tubes
On the fork, this 2 colour extends right to way up to about 3" below the crown
Im stripping bits at the mo and its really tough to clean off the paint,so lots of stripper being employed and i cant do a pic till ive at least cleaned it back
Thoughts??
If it turns out to be ill have it redone
Being new to stripping down 50-60 year old bikes is the brazing would become apparent and id see how it was all made
Except the ends of the forks and its beginning to look the ends at the dropouts might have been originally chromed. Reason for think this is where the dropouts are brazed in there is not brass braze. Its there in other sections of the tubing but the ends seem to be two tone base metal and i wondered if this difference in colour was due to it maybe being chromed at the front/rear dropouts and a bit up the tubes
On the fork, this 2 colour extends right to way up to about 3" below the crown
Im stripping bits at the mo and its really tough to clean off the paint,so lots of stripper being employed and i cant do a pic till ive at least cleaned it back
Thoughts??
If it turns out to be ill have it redone
