Currently TAC is a volunteer program, and I know several TAC inspectors
that have gone significantly out of their way in order to help out a
current or prospective Tiger owner, and the TAC program has been
expanded from California, to the West coast, to the East coast, only
through dedicated effort both by the inspectors and the Tiger owners
that wanted the program to come to their area.
TAC'ing a Tiger requires three inspectors and one of them has to be a
senior inspector. It may be that the person you contacted is working
behind the scenes to get something organized before getting back to you.
Or maybe he's on vacation. Even though email is nearly instantaneous
these days, other circumstances may be keeping him from getting back to
you.
The TAC group has tried to make the program available at as many as
possible of the Sunbeam events in the last couple of years, and as a
result of that there are currently some 600 TAC'ed Tigers. Mine was done
in '99 and it's #357, so over 250 Tigers have been TAC'ed in the last
eight years - pretty good effort for such a small group of people,
especially considering the increased area of the globe that is being
covered. But, because TAC is still contentious with some people, they
will not inspect a Tiger if the owner does not specifically request it.
There have been many arguments, both online and face to face, about the
merits and perceived politics behind TAC, and nobody wants to revisit
all that stuff... The mailing list archives chronicle some of the past
discussion (search for "TAC wars") if you're interested.
Best regards,
Theo (not a TAC inspector, but I may throw my hat in the ring when the
opportunity arises)
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