http://www.pinkbike.com/news/To-the-Point-Heat-Treating-Aluminum-Frames.html

Lots of engineering detail (well some at least!).

The only interesting part was they bought the Ht oven we designed at Mc

There alignment bench makes my 1/2″ steel topped one look like a childs’.

Comedy comments regarding alignment

This is an excellent article, his explainations of the effects of heat treatment are the best I’ve seen for a while without getting technical or using jargon.

Also nice to know that if you sent a frame back for repair they would re-heat treat it. This would be much harder to achieve if your manufacturing operation was on a different continent..

Also nice to know that if you sent a frame back for repair they would re-heat treat it. This would be much harder to achieve if your manufacturing operation was on a different continent..

I saw an almost identical article to this some years ago, but about Orange. I think it may have been the article where Chipps welded a frame. I know a couple of people who have cracked their Orange frames, and always wondered why they couldn’t offer a repair service that brought the frame back to strength via heat treatment. It would be nice to know their take on this, particularly in light of the expense of replacing a broken frame.

I’m a bit of an Orange Fanboi, but I can’t help thinking there’s a certain degree of reluctance because it results a new frame sale. I’m not saying this is right or wrong but a repair option would be nice.

That really is interesting. Cheers.

now that Intense have brought their heat treating ‘in house’, are we going to see an end to the absolutely shocking mis-alignment we have seen on many of their VPP frames for the previous seasons?