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Jason the Red
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Car plants are where I make a living. Some of the conveyor technology hasn't changed for many years. At the 7:50 mark is what I do a lot of, body/chassis marriage w/ overhead gantry cranes.
Bruce from Can.
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- Woodville, Ontario, Canada
I didn?t see even one fat gut man working that line. And most men had either bib overalls or work pants with suspenders keeping them up and shirts tucked in.
Not what I saw when I toured the Ford truck plant last spring.
Not what I saw when I toured the Ford truck plant last spring.
1948CaseVAI
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Would love to see the control systems.
Steve@Advance
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What amazes me is they can revamp everything every few years when there is a major model change, and have it all back up, running in tolerance parts within just a few days!
Think of how many different die sets they need to produce a single model line, then all the variations, 2 door, sedan, coupe, 4 door, convertible...
And were still able to produce an affordable vehicle!
Think of how many different die sets they need to produce a single model line, then all the variations, 2 door, sedan, coupe, 4 door, convertible...
And were still able to produce an affordable vehicle!
Steve@Advance
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"I would lose my mind."
Me too! That would be incredibly boring and mind numbing work.
But standing in one place... You better be standing in the right place! Lose more than your mind if you didn't!
I don't see any way to stop the assembly line in time if someone got caught up in it!
Me too! That would be incredibly boring and mind numbing work.
But standing in one place... You better be standing in the right place! Lose more than your mind if you didn't!
I don't see any way to stop the assembly line in time if someone got caught up in it!
Mike(NEOhio)
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- Newbury, Ohio
Cool film. I started at a GM plant in '68 and the equipment wasn't much different then. Served my die maker apprenticeship and spent a lot of time around similar presses and dies.
Steve@Advance
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The controls were basic limit switches, multi contact relays with reversible contacts to make NO or NC contacts, time delay relays were pneumatic (a small bellows with a metered adjustable air leak that set the time).
Overkill and heavy duty was the game, built to last!
Overkill and heavy duty was the game, built to last!
fastfarmall
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Steve, did u know the 57 Chev was suppose to look like the 58 Chev, but they didn't get it done in time for release date, that's why the 55,56 and 57 had so many interchangable parts, the 58 was a stand alone body style. I read that in a Dentist office in a magazine years ago!
fastfarmall
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In 1936 there wasn't as much surgar consumed, in the world as there is now!
Interesting you should say that! I worked for 1 year at the Rawsonville, MI Ford plant in 1965-66. The theory then was "If you're really stupid, it takes all your concentration to do the job, and it you're really smart, you can do the job with your mind being somewhere else, those in the middle go nuts"...
gtractorfan
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It's a wonder OSHA even allows us to LOOK at this! How many days did they go without a lost time injury?
"YOU GOTTA FIGHT THAT LINE" by Joe Glazer.
They put me to work on the assembly line.
My clock-card number was 90-90-9.
Those Fords rolled by on that factory floor,
And every fourteen seconds I slapped on a door.
Those Fords rolled by all day and all night,
My job was that front door on the right.
Foreman told me the day I was hired,
"You miss one door, Mr Jones...you're fired."
I slapped those doors on, always on the run,
Every fourteen seconds, never missed a one.
And I staggered home from work each night,
Still slappin 'em on, front door right.
They put me to work on the assembly line.
My clock-card number was 90-90-9.
Those Fords rolled by on that factory floor,
And every fourteen seconds I slapped on a door.
Those Fords rolled by all day and all night,
My job was that front door on the right.
Foreman told me the day I was hired,
"You miss one door, Mr Jones...you're fired."
I slapped those doors on, always on the run,
Every fourteen seconds, never missed a one.
And I staggered home from work each night,
Still slappin 'em on, front door right.
47fivewindow
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- Location
- Davidsonville Md.
Those cars had ball bearings instead of tapered roller bearings on the front spindles.
Crazy Horse
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Just think, every one of those workers had a story of some kind ..... a family, friends, enemies, hobbies, interests, bad habits ...... some went to war a few years later, some never came back. One or two might still be with us but that's unlikely. Not sure why those things came to mind, I guess because one of them looked a lot like my dad who would have been 20 at the time ..... except dad was working in a butcher shop instead of putting cars together.
Johnnypopper
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- Location
- Michigan
I have spent 43 years in an auto parts plant. I am amazed at all the changes in technology during this period.
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