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awesome looks like a laugh, paint is excellent

Braze ons are my least favourite part of framebuilding so this frame gives me chills.

nice, yeah i use lanthanated as well, never tried anything else but it works fine. and being less radioactive is handy too hah. I tend to grind them outdoors and with a decent mask on just to make sure.

awesome! Thats exciting. What size filler/tungsten have you got? Its nice to have a mix of different sizes and alloys. I have a stash of 312/309/er70s2 in 1mm and 1.6mm that covers pretty much everything.

sorry i totally forgot to reply. London gases are good, but you can get a lot more gas for the money from air products. (like 4-6 times) but air products charge for delivery and are a bit annoying to deal with. Maybe worth it depending on how much you use.

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made some progress on the DI2 frame, have welded out pretty much the whole thing. Ready for seatstays and other bits asap. Then will get that and the track frame off to powdercoat.

what gas supplier are you going for? While its a bit of a pain, you can save a fair bit by going with the big distributors like air products. Theyre difficult to deal with at times, but not awful, and compared to london gases, for example, they offer way more gas for the same money.

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its this one for reference, the 14mm one for TA

Long shot, but i ordered one a week ago and they sent the wrong one :( would like to get the wheel together ASAP so if anyone has one kicking around for some reason thatd be amazing

Cheers!

Why would recommend against barbastelle?

I just wouldn't sink big money into a builder who hasn't got a really solid catalogue of frames behind them. Their websites a bit average and from the looks of the insta they only have about 10 frames behind them. If you end up paying the same as someone who's done 100 frames you might as well go with someone else.

awesome, +1 for cloud 9 i know the guy who builds for them and he does good work. personally i would steer clear of barbastelle. What made you disregard saffron?

will be a good excuse to build a set of forks

Also, i came across this image on reddit, and now i feel a desperate urge to build one. So that's added to the project list.

hah yeah i think if i switch it round i will do some unintentional endos

yeah for sure

there are a few trek disc forks on ebay at the moment, pretty sure i could route the cables into the headtube with one. But i think it would look strange on a steel bike.

I dont like it when the cable comes round the head tube as it looks a bit funny to me. I could put the hole on the other side, but then the cable would not be routed "correctly" which would bug me also.

The only other option is getting the cable through the headset. I tried filing a notch into a cheap top cup to try and route a hose around the bearing, but there just wasn't really enough material. The last option is trying to find a fork that has a non round steerer, and routing the hose through the headset like that.

Ive also been thinking about the internal routing on the upcoming frame. Would like to put the rear hose into the frame, but dont really like it when it comes round the headtube and enters into the down tube. So would like to avoid that. I experimented a bit with putting a hole into the head tube and welding a bit of stainless tube in, but theres not loads of room in the head tube

Well i haven't really made much progress. The tubes came and i had a few weeks with some free time in early feb, but otherwise have been busy with uni so havent been able to do much . I managed to mitre up the front end of this di2 road frame. Also spent a bit of time making an internal isp topper thing for the track frame. Got most of the way through then realised the enve guts would look way better so will probably just make a new one for that, if i can find some enve guts that is. The aim was to have it fit into the seat tube and have a conical plug to draw into the other end and expand it inside the tube.

oof, will drop you a pm, not sure i can afford it tho :)

3rd? dibs pls

anything considered :)

Cheers