| Who's Who
of Long Island Indicator Service | George Meyer |  | | | | 
The name of George Meyer is well known among old-timers who had occasion to do business with Alina Corporation during the 1960's and 70's. He was the chief service technician at that time and has taught us the ins, the outs, the techniques, and the high standards required of reliable repair work. George brought us all to Long Island from a lovely lake-side hamlet on the Greifensee in Swiss-German speaking Switzerland. You'll recognize his accent the moment he says "Long Island Indicator Serwiss, can I help you?" When he left Alina Corporation (after more than 20 years) he expanded on his small family business, incorporated, and gave us all our training. We're quite a team now. George still is the master of Etalon, Tesa and Compac products, mastering his apprenticeship in Switzerland as a tool-and-die maker. Subsequently, he returned to spend time in the manufacturers' factories learning up-to-date repair and calibration procedures. | René Meyer | | | | | 
René , principal manager of Long Island Indicator Service since 1980, and president since 2001, is the indicator specialist. You will more than likely speak to him about repairs, sales and spare parts. Born in Switzerland, living on Long Island, he has a degree in biology from Long Island University and studied plant genetics as a graduate student at the University of Massachusetts. During high-school he helped design the Compac and Etalon spare parts lists for the US market. His first encounter with precision instruments was weekends spent assembling the Alina Model 88 test indicators. He's listed in Who's Who of Contemporary Swiss Composers (and "Who's That?" of New York composers) and is the designer and web master of this site. | Roy Meyer | | 
Roy, Long Island born and educated, first-class machinist, has hands-on knowledge on gage applications. He's the master of the micrometers, height gages, intrimiks and dial bore gages. He learned his trade at BOCES and subsequently worked as a prototype machinist at both Beucher Laboratories and Robotic Vision Systems on Long Island. He was a member of the team which installed robotic inspection equipment at the Philadelphia Naval Ship Yards. Roy and his wife Laura maintain a menagerie of farm animals at LRM Farm in Yaphank where they are also busy raising Peter, the newest member of the Meyer clan and mascot of The Zwerglipatch Gardens. | John William Garand | | | | | 
John, a New Hampshire native of British and Canadian French stock, was the US coordinator of sales for Compac (Geneva) before he joined us. He created an expanded network of distributors in the US for the company. He is currently the corporate treasurer and handles customer accounts. John has retired from an active 20-year career as professional puppeteer. His work has been seen at the Smithsonian Institution, Lincoln Center, the Atlanta Center for Puppetry, virtually every state east of the Mississippi and also a late-night comedy series on Showtime. He is the master gardener of The Zwerglipatch Gardens and creator of the annual Zombie Mouse puppet play. | Nuts and Bolts | | | | | 
Peter is our newest member-in-training. We give him the Starrett micrometers to fix. (Starrett doesn't think that's very funny.) Obviously there's more to our lives than nuts and bolts; yet, we are dedicated to providing the best repair service money can buy, thinking of ourselves more as rebuilders of tools rather than repairmen. Because we have a large supply of factory-fresh parts, we can afford to replace any used or damaged items. This gives the repaired tool a longer useful life than if we just repaired a little here, a little there. It also assures an accuracy meeting, or exceeding, the manufacturer's original specifications. Give us a try! By the way, if a woman answers, don't hang up! That's our Mom. She's the greatest! | | | | | Shopping Cart | Sales Terms | Repair Service | Home | | | | | 
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