Isen workshop: adventures in batch production (or not...)

Moved your cleats back?

If you want the extenders and cleats PM your deets.

Knew I had something to do!

Take care that it is swollen and not an actual bulge, IIRC tendon itself can't swell but perhaps the sheath can. Tendinopathy is no fun, as I've found out. Only just found that with achilles problems you shouldn't have cleats to the front, now moved back to midway and monitoring for an improvement.

Thousands of pounds of little bits of metal.

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And the snazzy solution to flat mount rear brakes. This should be nice and quick.

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And the cunning plugs that stop us having to slot the stays. Again should speed things along nicely. They're hollowed out, so not too much weight either.

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The eagle eyed will be able to tell from my awful trainers that I still can't get my work boots on...

from my wife's trainers

I've boought a second tig welder. This will be set up next to the chainstay subassembly mitring fixture. I'll tack them together, along with brake bosses, whilst in fixture, and before mitring, to minimize the risk of movement during or post cut and pre mounting to the frame, and therefore less need to make adjustments with handfiles when mounting to main frame fixture.

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I hadn't realised the extent to which you were changing how you build (both process and components).

Thinking about the earlier production methods-chat, how does the fact you've sold all thirty affect how you will build? It sounds like you will be producing sub-assemblies en masse, rather than building one frame at a time.

We are going to do, all the seat tube bb mitres, then all the down tube/ bb mitres, then all the down tube/ head tube mitred and so on...
the fixtures we use are all easily adjusted and calibrated, so its less to do with the set up time and more to do with being in the right head space, in that I find it easy to get confused what I'm doing if I'm flitting between cuts over and over.
Rough overall plan is:
All the mitres
All the tacking
All the welding

One of the annoying wastes of time at the moment is going to the main fixture to tack the stays before cutting, or cutting without tacking and running the risk of it having slipped and I've used this as an excuse to buy another welder.

Ideally we would have a consistent amount of orders allowing us to build in a quite regimented way. What will happen in real life is anyone's guess.

31 -60 should be sinch after you have ironed out all the technical stuff.

Hoping so. I already build more than one bike at a time, but never more than 7, so its just about whether this scales up. Its also pretty workshop specific, as space is at a massive premium, it being london etc...

Ready to demo at the cycleshow in Birmingham!

Any progress in the last week?

Some good piccies on Caren's insta.

12k worth of tubes and forks coming from columbus, got in there just before Italian month long shut down.

Deda stuff to come and then we are good to go.

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Brass liners for the internal brake line. They aren't the drain pipes that they look like in this photo, it's just perspective

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I sense its time for some of us to come out of the woodwork.
Received 2x groupsets yesterday. They are very E-xciting things.

What group set are you installing? You doing his n hers isens?

c wat u did ther

Got back from volunteering at LEL to this lovely sight. 30 frames in kit form all boxed up. A few minor things left to turn up and then we are ready to roll!

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Has the box with the serial numbers in it been delivered?

That's what we are waiting on