Tim James

“A new arrival to Albuquerque and Zomeworks” (per the August 2004 progress report) who plumbed the interior storage array for the Double Play system installed at Bruce W. Davis‘s Albuquerque studio in 2004: 42 vertical 4″ PVC drain pipes holding 200 gallons of water with 300 sq ft of surface area, connected by thermosiphon (no pump) to 12 polypropylene Sky Mat radiator/absorbers on the garage roof (127 sq ft). Baer singled out the workmanship: “His very careful work made the plumbing of the forty-two 4″ PVC drain pipes a pleasing part of the design. The specially plumbed vertical storage tanks with their 168 connections had not one leak!” The installation cooled a 236 sq ft studio through 95°F summer days; Davis reported “great satisfaction: no noise, no fan and no added moisture.” See Steve Baer and the double-play thermosiphon.

By September 2004, per Baer’s “Dear Shareholders” letter, James was looking for a property for a Double Play spec house, and might “install a system on his own recently acquired double-wide.” The same letter names him — alongside Steve Baer, David Harrison, and Kent Johnson — in the four-person team budgeted for about four months of continued Double Play refinement and testing while Zomeworks awaited its roll-forming machine. See Dear shareholders.

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Full biography and whether the spec house was ever built are not documented in the archive.

See also

• Steve Baer and the double-play thermosiphon
• Dear shareholders
• Bruce W. Davis
• Thermosiphon
• Zomeworks Corporation
• Steve Baer
• Bruce Davis Studio — the 2004 Double Play installation whose storage array James plumbed