I second Mark's comments about Tim. Trek spent a lot of money on this steel lug frame production process. Just shortly after it was perfected the glued alloy frame made it mostly useless. Tim tried to make steel lugged frames in the Seattle (in 2000 or so) area using all state of the art frame building machines. He made the last lugged Paramount frames there. For various reasons the company did not make it. 70 deg. today here, I got a ride in.
Jim Merz Big Sur CA
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Mark Petry <mark@petry.org> wrote:
> A lot of the tooling and jig work at Trek was done by Tim Isaacs who is a
> process engineer par excellence. I once saw his special machine that did
> the seat tube, seat lug and stays, all in one assemble / cut / miter /
> brazing pass. Very impressive - accurate, fast, and repeatable.
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> I think Tim is now working in China - or at least he was a couple years
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> Mark Petry
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> Bainbridge Island, WA
> 206 618 9642 <mailto:mark@petry.org> mark@petry.org