I think the body of the dropout is plain steel and thus can be welded or brazed in any fashion, the stainless piece is an insert that is probably silver brazed in to reinforce the dropout, and look good! My wife's Heron touring has them.
On Saturday, March 21, 2015 at 6:20:36 PM UTC-7, Dave Hallerman wrote: > > Yes, it seems to be a Waterford thing, as with the Gunnar frame that came > to live with me only yesterday and has shiny stainless steel dropouts. > > But I don't know if they need to be brazed, since the Gunnar is a welded > frame. > > > > On Mar 21, 2015, at 8:53 PM, Dave Johnston <jdi...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > wrote: > > Looks like the dropouts on my waterford built Heron, which are stainless > steel and were masked off during paint to show the bare stainless. > > It's probably a Waterford thing, the Toyo built Atlantis were not > stainless. I believe stainless has to be silver brazed as well, which is an > additional expense. > > -Dave > > > > On Saturday, March 21, 2015 at 10:14:23 AM UTC-4, Zach A wrote: >> >> I might be mistaken, but my non-drive dropout on my Atlantis seems to be >> stainless. I'm guessing the drive side probably is too, but it was fully >> painted. Chipping after maiden build shows steel with a similar luster and >> lack of corrosion. Anyone else's steed have these? >> >> - Z >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rbw-owners-bun...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com > <javascript:>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
