Another Convert

[John Lewis]

G'day all,

Just to introduce myself.

I live in Western Australia and I'm a retired school Principal.

I've built a number of bents now. SWB Bentechs, LWB Tourezy style and a tadpole trike. Seven in all but never a delta. I have brazed them all and hope that will also be strong enough with the Delta Wolf especially the hubs as I'm hopeless with an arc welder.

Got the plans a week or three back and have all the materials to hand so now its time to start cutting metal.

My wife says when I finish this one she wants a Kyoto Cruiser.

John Lewis

[gbbwolf]

Welcome John
Will love to see how brazing a wolf turns out.
Plenty Of Pics. Please.

nelson

[rykoala]

As far as I understand, brazing rod has a tensile strength of 70k pounds, and welding rod is either 60k or 70k pounds depending on what you use. I think you'll be fine. Brazing was around LONG before welding was ;)

[John Lewis]

Thanks for the welcome guys,

Good to know the strength of bronze. I wondered about it. All my other bikes are bronzed and no problem but its easier to get nice fillets on round tube. Thanks for that papa and rykoala.

Hey gbbwolf. I'll be sure to post pics. In the meantime here are some pics of my other builds. The yellow and purple one are mine. The rest built for friends. The blue trike is for a guy who intends to ride round Aus.

http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh98/lew2au/TE-Clone.jpg
http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh98/lew2au/Robs-Bike.jpg
http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh98/lew2au/Dicks-bike.jpg
http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh98/lew2au/Davids-Frame.jpg
http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh98/lew2au/Bentech.jpg
http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh98/lew2au/Painted.jpg

It's a nice day out. Been raining all weekso I'm off for a ride then into the building

John Lewis

[John Lewis]

John,

The purple TE-Clone. One of the few clones i've seen which has nearly no trail and only about 100-125mm of tiller. The CoG also looks quite good. How do you like it?

G'day papa,

That purple bike is my favorite ride. It's fairly quick and has no vices. It was the first bike I built.

It has only about 25mm of trail and the tiller is not really detectable.
My friends all predicted dire results with the amount of rake. They reckoned the fork would break. Well, it hasn't in several thousand km of riding. It is pretty lightly loaded only about 25kg on it.

It is based on mark2 from the recycled recumbents website.

Started on the Wolf yesterday. The hub disks looked the most trouble so that's where I started. Just have to countersink the holes and they will be ready to weld on when I get that far.
John Lewis

[John Lewis]

G'day guys,
I,ve just posted some pics of my progress in the About to Start thread in the Delta Wolf section.

I'll post the pictures there unless you want me to post here too. Probably better to keep them in one place.

Ended up using the arc welder instead of brazing.

John Lewis

[gbbwolf]

I was about to ask what happened to brazing.
I came here to check your post cause I thought I was losing my mind.

Nelson