Originally Posted by
unterhausen
I wouldn't mind being able to make the old reynolds domes, but I have no good way to clean the insides of the stays.
Yes that is the one way that I think DIY domes are better. I got the insides good and clean before forging the domes, which is done cold.
I wasn't really trying to mimic the Reynolds shape; I got a longer tapered dome with a sort of parabola shoreline as opposed to the semicircle on Reynolds. A bit more like the domes on a '40s-'50s Bianchi Folgore:
OK maybe not that tapered; mine were somewhere between that and Reynolds.
They lend themselves well to brazing with pre-placed brass (or silver) in the joint, just heat from the outside until you see filler everywhere.
Originally Posted by
guy153
[snip] nobody cares
Ooh good thing you put a smiley after that or you 'n' me would have a problem!
