Situation: dropouts already attached to the stays. I cut out the caliper mount holes and brazed them in yesterday. Put the stays back in the jig and I see the new gap at the BB (see picture below). Note that prior to brazing in the caliper mounts, the NDS stay was as tight as the DS stay as in the picture. It's as if the NDS stay shortened by about 1mm while I brazed in the mounts.
I'm trying to understand how that happened exactly. The mounts were tightly fit in their respective holes and as mentioned the miter at the BB shell was also very tight. Now I'll have to shorten the DS stay to match, which I suppose isn't a huge deal, but not something I wanted to do in the first place.
Maybe in the future I should braze in the caliper mounts after I attached the stays to the BB?
Thoughts are very welcome. Thanks.
Brandon
