Originally Posted by
bulgie
Bill D visited Tange's Cr-Mo fork making department and was impressed that they just had a row of single fork brazing stations, each with one guy brazing one fork at a time. Not a "production line".
That is incredibly impressive considering how many forks Tange was turning out. So many bicycle makers used Tange forks. Did they run three shifts? Or was this just for the lower production 531 forks?