What is mercurius tensor tubing?
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What is mercurius tensor tubing?
What is mercurius tensor tubing? Anyone ever hear of this?
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I'm not surprised this has come up, considering Mercury is in retrograde.
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According to the fine print it's just a high tensile steel. (acciaio alta resistenza).
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we still have me mum's Tensor high intensity lamp from the nineteen sixties -
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we still have me mum's Tensor high intensity lamp from the nineteen sixties -
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Interesting seat lug. Double lugged?
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I'm not surprised this has come up, considering Mercury is in retrograde.
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By the late 1980s their were some quite nice frames being produced with less than stellar tubesets, such as Oria 0.9TT, which was a plain gauge tubeset with quite thick 0.9mm walls. You can find lots of examples from quite prestigious marques, with features such as brazed-on front derailleur hangers, investment cast fittings and lots of chrome.
Cromovelato is not exclusively the domain of high end bicycles. When I was wrenching at the LBS in the early 1970s, the entry level Chiorda and Torpado used cromovelato finishes.
Similarly, fluted tubing can also be found on entry level bicycles. Some early examples can be found on entry level Japanese bicycles from the early 1970s.
So, while the frame's attributes may appear inconsistent the level of tubing, there are precedents. I wouldn't rule it out, However, I also wouldn't rule out the decal not being OEM to the frame, though if it was a replacement, I would think they would use a more recognizable tubeset. Regardless, my original statement was made based on face value of the tubing decal itself, which is what the OP was inquiring about.
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We rode around in a Mercury Meteor wagon in the late sixties. The third bench seat faced backward.
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^^^^ A lot of late '60s American station wagons had a rear facing third seat, since you hopped in from the back. Some Fords (including that Meteor, probably) actually had a back gate that opened like a door and dropped down like a tailgate.
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I’ve never heard of it, but in my opinion squashing the tubes like that would weaken them. Nothing is stronger than good quality round tubing. To be honest though, all steel has similar characteristics all dimensions being the same. You could make a frame from straight gauge high tensile steel, and straight gauge 531, or stainless and they’d all have “similar” ride characteristics if the thicknesses of the tube walls etc were all basically the same.
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