[TheForge] Re: wrought VW

[Mike Spencer]

PF wrote:

> No longer a VW..it's art now. Practical considerations have faded.

Yeah, yeah, well, okay. Pronounced "Ot".  It's my years as a mekanik
-- for a while there I was a VW hot shot -- peeking through.

> I figure one can replace the critical parts of an english wheel with
> 2 bearings..the difficult part being a bearing replacement from a
> self aligning bearing with a crowned outer race.

Right, plus all that tedious cutting and welding of heavy, relatively
expensive structural shapes for the frame.  I forget the price at
Princess Auto but, as I recall, it was cheap enough to offset a lot of
tedious welding.  Chinese manufacture, of course, with whatever random
imperfections that might entail.


- Mike

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