Last night I worked on the fork; cut it to length by taking about 2 inchs off the upper leg and about a half inch of the lower leg. comparing it to a really tight carbon race fork, it will have about a 1/4 inch more room between tire and crown all the way around the tire. I prefer this fit incase I want to ever put fenders on (they would still need to be speed fenders as I am not putting eyelet braze-ons on)
I also mitered the steerer tube to fit the profile of the crown but I will still need to file off about 2mm once I am done brazing.
After lining everything up my big concern here is making sure the legs are parrallel to each other after brazing because they both rock back and forth a little bit. I am think of pinning them and then tack brazing then first to insure as little movement as possible. I also need to come up with a couple C clamps to hold the tips of the lugs flat to the tubes for brazing.
More to come after tonight because I will be brazing tonight and tomorrow... I will get lots of pictures of that.
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