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Has anyone used glue to joint steel lugged frames?

Back in the 80's, there were a slew of bikes made from aluminum glued to aluminum lugs, carbon tubing to aluminum lugs, steel tubing to aluminum lugs, aluminum tubing to steel lugs, titanium to aluminum lugs, and in the 90's we had carbon tubing glued to steel tubing and carbon tubes glued to titanium. Aside from galvanic corrosion issues, it seems like all of these glued together bikes held up just fine.
So how come nobody has tried to just glue steel tubing into the usual steel lugs, instead of brazing them together? This would allow practically anyone to build frames.
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