Brazil Day 2… Five factory visit!

Our second day in Brazil started in carburetor factory Brosol….

Right at the assembly lines! Up to 400 different parts goes into one carburetor!

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Quality control does matter for a carburetor production process! Every single carburetor is vacuum AND fluid tested even in different airflow and even in different gears!!

The testing lady works 43 years in this factory!

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Busy assembly lines, produce up to 3000 carburetors a month!!

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Mandatory picture…

Walter, the man who’s right from me in the picture, is the plant engineer and work 55(!) years for this factory, he’s the walking carburetor encyclopedia!

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Next….We visited the push rod tube manufacturer, first we stick a BBT sticker to the owner, Mr Wilson, his Fusca…

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The main machine in the production of push rod tubes… every 6 seconds a push rod comes out!

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I can operate a machine like that…. LOL!

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Final pressing…

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….and liquid pressure test of every of our push rods!

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This company makes also a lot of pulleys etc… excentre stamp presses enough… oh yes they’re still my favourite machinery!

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The original VW blueprint is still the holy bible for the production!

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The cut away gives us the right views of the inner structure… what can be improved???

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Next we go to a factory specialised in Alu and Zinc Alloy pressure injection… very wide product range… as long as its aluminum or zinc alloy…:)

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This is NOT soup! This is liquid aluminum!!

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Enough half products and castings to fill an entire warehouse!!

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Main reason for this visit was our production of ignition steering locks, for split window bus and for beetle… we getting close! Two more internal parts to develop and we can start assembly process development…

This will be a BBT exclusive product!

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Ok lunch!! Let’s get some Brazilian BBQ…. what called Churascaria… ever heard of Picanha? It’s the best beef money can buy!

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Up to the next factory… we lined up behind this cool Vw model we don’t have in Europe…

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This factory makes our window winder mechanisms… bullet proof and super solid! A couple of euro’s more expensive as the Chinese crap on the market.

We follow these for years and don’t get returns at all! The BBT window regulators do work like they supposed to do… hope You buy them already?

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we came here to understand the production process and for sure we’re impressed by the incredible nice organised production process!

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They even have their own zinc facilities!

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Assembly was well thought out and again very well organised with a very good lay out… Up to 6000(!) window regulators a day, very impressive!

Every window regulator is fully tested on its own!

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Last factory make BBT bumper brackets, unfortunately no pictures allowed. sorry…:(

Tomorrow we see more productions, so stay tuned! we’re not home yet!

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