If I remember the quad and triple butted tubing was seamed and could not be made by the seamless method with mandrels. Seamed tubing is cheaper to make and generally inferior to seamed tubing. However seamed tubing can be made to equal the quality of seamless tubing. But rather than explain how good your seamed tubing is, it is easier to talk about triple and quad butting, which no seamless tubing manufacturer could offer.
I believe True Temper was/is also a high quality seamed tubing.
Joe Bender-Zanoni
Grat Notch, NJ
Tesch under assembly now!
> On Wed, 23 Apr 2003 20:21:39 EDT LouDeeter@aol.com writes:
> "Why did more or the Japanese manufacturers use triple and quad butted
> tubing
> than the European builders? Was it simply Japanese used Ishiwata and
> Tange
> and Europeans used Reynolds and Columbus, et al and the Japanese steel
> makers
> offered the multi-butted tubing?"
>
>
> lou,
> i don't know.
> e-RICHIE
> chester, ct