To-Do List

I find it helpful to write down all the things I need to accomplish from time to time just to wrap my head around what's coming and to sort out the places I need to understand better. This includes what needs done, as well as any points on how to do it that I've thought of.

Things I need to do in order to get the maintube, HT, and BB brazed up. (I'll do rear fork and finishing steps, seat mounting, sprint stays, etc. later)

• Level jig on saw horses
• Decide if I am brazing FD mount along with everything else or later separately, and what size tubing I'm using for it.
  
• machine appropriate spacer blocks
• figure out how to miter the thing.
  
• Prepare jig
  
• Draw out maintube, head tube and BB locations on jig (FD mount?)
  
• mount spacer blocks
  
• machine wooden square blocks for angle alignment brackets and mount
• Drill and prepare for BB fixing bolt
  
• Mark out maintube
• Mark 90 deg longitudinal lines on maintube
• Mark intersections for headtube, BB, and seat mounting penetrations
• Print out tube miters for HT and BB penetrations, align with longitudinal lines, transfer to tube with centerpunch and marker.
  
• Prepare HT
• Use cutoff tool on lathe to cut partway through tube to mark accurate square cutoff for cutting to length later with hacksaw/file (post brazing)
• drill breather holes
• mark intersection with maintube for positioning purposes
• Cut maintube
• Cut out headtube penetration.
  
• start with dremel
• clean up to marked line with 1" drum in die grinder
• Test fit in jig, wash rinse repeat
• Cut out BB penetration
• hacksaw lower bevel & rough out
  
• finish with 10" half round file and 1" drum
• Test fit
  
• Cut and fit plate for lower bevel under BB
• Cut and fit FD mount
• Drill holes for seat mount
• This is important to do before any brazing since I am doing it on the mill and any brazing material could throw it off depending on exactly how I mount it
• Mount HT, BB, lower bevel plate in jig.
• spot braze LH side of headtube, and Top and Bottom of BB (braze both LBP and BB )
• Take frame out of jig and flip over
• remount (if this is hard, something warped)
  
• braze RH side of ht
• take frame out of jig, mount in frame stand and finish braze all joints.
  
• aligning and brazing seat mounts: (assuming working on LH side)
  
• start by running a SS bolt all the way through from the RH side of the frame so that the nuts are tight but it only contacts the first couple threads on the LH nut
• mount a piece of AL flat stock to the LH nut using a short bolt
• sight along the maintube and ensure that the flat stock is parallel with HT, also measure with square.
  
• adjust as needed
• carefully remove flat stock without shifting nut
• braze in nut
  
• repeat for other side