Originally Posted by
Kontact
Silver is used with lighter, thinner walled tubing and tighter fitting, invest cast lugs. It is hard to build a lighter weight steel bike at bronze temps because the thin tubing can't take it.
I suppose silver is used with lighter thinner walled tubing and investment cast ligs, but the frame i am building is .8/.5/.8 tubing with cast lugs and its brazed with both brass and silver. The brass penetrates.
Perhaps .8/.5/.8 isnt thin enough, but very few bikes have .7/.4/.7 tubing.
Ive seen classic tange 1 tubing...typically pretty light...brass brazed.
Really not trying to argue and moreso just understand how silver is on inherently better(how thenoriginal comment i responded to sounded) bikes.