{"id":1979,"date":"2010-12-12T11:32:18","date_gmt":"2010-12-12T10:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.otmbikes.com\/blog\/?p=1860"},"modified":"2015-09-14T18:28:25","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T17:28:25","slug":"titanium-frame-modification-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.otmbikes.com\/wpblog\/2010\/12\/titanium-frame-modification-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Titanium frame upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"en\" src=\"\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/en.gif\" alt=\"en\" width=\"27\" height=\"21\" \/>I received Laurent's parts for the modification of his titanium frame,  he wanted me to add an ISO disc tab to his dearly beloved RVT frame, made out of Russian Ti apparently. I drilled some small purge holes in all the needed places to let the Argon inside the weld-effected tubes (chainstay-reinforcement-seatstay) and used CP titanium for the TIG weld wire and the parts. Here's the result. PS: Thanks to <a title=\"Crisp Titanium\" href=\"http:\/\/www.crisptitanium.com\" target=\"_blank\">Darren Crisp<\/a> and <a title=\"Kish Fabrication\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kishbike.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Kish<\/a> for the advice on Russian Ti :-)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"fr\" src=\"\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/fr.gif\" alt=\"en\" width=\"27\" height=\"21\" \/>J'ai recu les pi\u00e8ces pour la modification du cadre de Laurent, il voulait ajouter une patte de frein ISO \u00e0 son cadre RVT, un cadre en titane russe apparament. Apr\u00e8s pr\u00e9paration du cadre (percage de petits trous pour la purge \u00e0 l'Argon, decoupe du petit tube de renfort base-hauban, nettoyage), j'ai soud\u00e9 le tout en utilisant du titane CP (bagettes de soudage + tube de renfort). Voila le r\u00e9sultat. PS: Mer\u00e7i \u00e0 <a title=\"Crisp Titanium\" href=\"http:\/\/www.crisptitanium.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Darren Crisp<\/a> et <a title=\"Kish Fabrication\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kishbike.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Kish<\/a> pour les conseils avec le titane Russe :-)<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 25%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1979 gallery-columns-4 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.otmbikes.com\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/DSC027381.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"110\" height=\"110\" src=\"https:\/\/www.otmbikes.com\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/DSC027381-110x110.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.otmbikes.com\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/DSC027411.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"110\" height=\"110\" src=\"https:\/\/www.otmbikes.com\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/DSC027411-110x110.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.otmbikes.com\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/DSC027431.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"110\" height=\"110\" src=\"https:\/\/www.otmbikes.com\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/DSC027431-110x110.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.otmbikes.com\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/DSC027531.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"110\" height=\"110\" src=\"https:\/\/www.otmbikes.com\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/DSC027531-110x110.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received Laurent&#8217;s parts for the modification of his titanium frame, he wanted me to add an ISO disc tab to his dearly beloved RVT frame, made out of Russian Ti apparently. I drilled some small purge holes in all the needed places to let the Argon inside the weld-effected tubes (chainstay-reinforcement-seatstay) and used CP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-1979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-workshop","tag-titan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otmbikes.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otmbikes.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otmbikes.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otmbikes.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otmbikes.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.otmbikes.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7979,"href":"https:\/\/www.otmbikes.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979\/revisions\/7979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otmbikes.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otmbikes.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otmbikes.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}