Harvey Sachs wrote:
> Jim Papadopoulos, my wife, and I visited the Schwinn works in Chicago in
> the Fall of 1974. At that time, assembly of run-of-the-mill steel-rim
> wheels was a two part process. Humans spoked the wheels. They were then
> put on a machine that mechanically tensioned the spokes. It was
> certainly "good enough". This had been going on for a long time, so I'm
> pretty sure it was not even computer-controlled.
In the early 80s Trek used a "Holland Mechanics" (distributed by Sturmey-Archer) wheel building machine, with final tensioning done by hand.
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-John Thompson (john@os2.dhs.org)
Appleton WI USA