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--- Quote from: hotdog on November 26, 2018, 07:01 PM ---I've got a U.S. made '84 TS and the welds are very good and nothing like yours. Going off your platform supports,it looks like yours could be 'far eastern' made with the baseball stamped serial number.

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I didn’t know that Koizuni made Hutch framesets, but I would not denegrate the build quality of their gear, “Far Eastern” or not.

There is many a Diamond Back out there rolling around which sports the - much sought after, in fact - baseball stamp.

Just sayin’, like.

 :daumenhoch:

Quadog:
Yep it has the baseball symbol the brake bridge is way to high as well hence the calliper on the underside must have been a Friday bike or they were on sake 🇯🇵

hotdog:
Clearly Quadog isn't happy with the quality of his Trick Star. Maybe Diamond Back were on the case when it came to Quality Control and Hutch were not. I use the words "far eastern' as I can't remember exactly which country the baseball stamped frames were made. At one time though,I did have a pair of Trick Star forks that were stamped 'Tange' which was an eye-opener for me.
As for issues with peeling chrome,I can only speak from personal experience. I've owned mine since 1985 and have never had the chrome peel. Just the usual fading in the nooks 'n crannies which I partly put down to using autosol on it in the 90's. Autosol is way too abrasive.

Quadog:
Just picked up F&F and parts today freshly powdered ordered some new decals from Del then I’ll probably make an arse of it and scratch and chip it up putting it back together as I’m a right clumsy bastard 🙈

tfi_friday:
Looks well :)

Japanese Trickstar quality is all over the place, some nice examples that even look like a US built frame (with regards frame stander support and brake bridge) and some that you can't even mount a rear brake on due to the bridge being mounted too high.

I've a Japanese Koizumi made frame ("baseball" stamped) and couldn't be happier with the quality of the welds and build.




That being said... from what I've heard the Japanese quality is still better that the Tawain made frames

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