Brass lugs - London Fixed-gear and Single-speed

melon · 5th August 2008

i love the look of cycling wmds brass lugs on this bike: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dancing...7603154992936/

how can go about creating this look? i cant imagine painting them would achieve the same aestetic, is there some kind of electrolite plating involved?

looking at the rest of the flicker gallery you can see the bike being made, the lugs are clearly made from steel, so they must have had some treatment to create that look.

pilky · 5th August 2008

i think it gold paint, might be wrong though

VelocityBoy · 5th August 2008

Brass is a soft metal, lugs are not somewhere that you want a soft metal. It is paint.

freezing77 · 5th August 2008

Possibly steel that has been zinc/nickel plated and then gold passivated.

gusyup. · 5th August 2008

deadly fanny pack · 5th August 2008

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Originally Posted by VelocityBoy

Brass is a soft metal, lugs are not somewhere that you want a soft metal. It is paint.

I thought lugs were brazed on with brass?

Dylan · 5th August 2008

brass plated lugs ?

VelocityBoy · 6th August 2008

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Originally Posted by deadly fanny pack

I thought lugs were brazed on with brass?

There's quite a difference between brazing on with brass and actually making the lugs out of brass. Where's a frame-builder when you want one!

andyp · 6th August 2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by deadly fanny pack

I thought lugs were brazed on with brass?

They are. Because, as VB has said, it's a soft metal that has a low melting point which can be used to braze steel tubes into cast steel lugs.

melon · 6th August 2008

i assumed they were made of brass at first, but having seen the construction pictures im guesing thier either plated or painted. they dont look painted though, they have a certain quality that would indictae otherwise.

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melon	Brass lugs i love the look of cycling wmds brass lugs on this bike: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dancing...7603154992936/ how can go about creating this look? i cant imagine painting them would achieve the same aestetic, is there some kind of electrolite plating involved? looking at the rest of the flicker gallery you can see the bike being made, the lugs are clearly made from steel, so they must have had some treatment to create that look.
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freezing77	Possibly steel that has been zinc/nickel plated and then gold passivated. Last edited by freezing77; 5th August 2008 at 22:17.. Reason: Missing info
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gusyup.	uh?
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5th August 2008	#2
pilky	i think it gold paint, might be wrong though
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5th August 2008	#3
VelocityBoy	Brass is a soft metal, lugs are not somewhere that you want a soft metal. It is paint.
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6th August 2008	#10
melon	i assumed they were made of brass at first, but having seen the construction pictures im guesing thier either plated or painted. they dont look painted though, they have a certain quality that would indictae otherwise.
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