Greetings and introduction

[MarkInVermont]

I here you guys on the scratch built.

Two things though: the tank has been repaired in the past with some sort of stuff that almost looks like refractory cement with aluminum powder in it. So it is a low confidence tank. Second, I have wire welded tanks before using low heat and high wire speed successfully and I have this tank that looks good. But it's too long for the frame.

So it needs the pan repaired anyway, I have it, and I have no other use for it.

I have a good tank to fit the third bike frame; just needs paint.

The fourth frame has no tank. Saving my pennies to get a good used (if I'm lucky) or not-so-good new Harbor Freight English Wheel. Don't know what that tank will be like yet but it will fun to do! I have imagined a vintage-style seat pan, bolster, and gas tank that is completely one unit, though. I know for sure it will be soft edged and flowing, and I have a sewing machine so the seat pad will be sculpted to flow with the tank and rear seat bump/cowl.

But that's quite some time off in the future cuz I have two other bikes before it to reassemble from puzzle pieces. Ya, I have two frames and most of their parts, but they came in cardboard boxes with little or no organization- just boxes of bolts and such. By the time I get the next so bikes done it think And I expect I will find myself short of some stuff. Gas tank included.

Thanks for the encouragement. I've enjoyed what I've seen here so far!