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Just a reminder to keep us sane
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OSH Custodian Lug Data Sheet
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Columbus Spirit for Lugs
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The bench
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The words and music
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Setting up the Marcetti up
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Lathe jobs, square lugs head tube and stem tube
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Items squared off
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Strip of 80 grit to clean inside faces of the dropouts, they are the dautum
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A flat face to register off
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Fronts are done both sides
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I mark and alter the dropouts to get a sexier shoreline
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Carbide burr attack
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Spiro band attack
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The rest is filed to clean up
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120 grit to tidy the shoreline
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The radius is the key to the eye enjoying the shape
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This is for the CS, a lathe is a beautiful thing
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Make a taper bore split bush to match the FB (straight fork) and another for the CS
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Bush over CS
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Take cuts with CS loaded in bush in 3 jaw
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Mill file to take burr off
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Take cuts till tapered CS fits lightly into dropout. Must not be tight
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I know the rake, I know the cut length of the blade, measure and mark
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Fork blade thingie
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Raking a blade
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Curved blade requested by the customer, fiddling the bends and fit till I got 50mm rake
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Small carbide burr to get the very end cleaned out. Stainless must be mechanically clean for correct silver brazing
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Clean out with new sharp bands, note this a stainless steel dropout
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The set up for the cooking up
