Thursday and friday we visited more factories, let’s start with a tail light company, who will make our Bay window tail lights soon!
This is the raw material for your tail light lenses!
Very nice and well organised, clean factory!!
and on to the next, just a street view of a Sao Paolo suburb, traffic is NOT alone in Antwerp, but also over here…:)
Next was a real cool and small factory who is specialised in emergency brake handles and smaller quantity parts…
Yes excenter presses are absolutely my favourite machines…
and on to the next, discussing more push rod tubes with Mr Wilson… compare the reproductions with NOS ones, and learn what is changed on a push rod tube in the last 40 years orso…
The cut away model learned us a lot… I could never imagine that there was so much technology in a “stupid” push rod tube!
followed by an extra ordinary mandatory dinner, with many caiparinha, beer, and off course a lot of meat!
Friday morning first stop was IGP, our trusty sheet metal supplier… IGP is a real big factory!
…with many and especially huge presses!
Jerry was pretty impressed for sure!
Floorplates ready for paint…
… and painted…
the IGP parts been “dipped” in a water based coating…
as I said, IGP is a huge operation!
Jerry is inspecting some moulds in the tooling dept.
From IGP we drove to one of the worlds largest ignition cable manufacturers, around two million sets a year been produced here!
Everything is controlled, and even weighted!
A fresh delivery for Bosch, fitted almost in my pockets…:)
From the ignition cable factory we drove to the port for a meeting with our new consolidator, we ship a 40ft container every 4 weeks now out of Santos, so time to talk!
Hey guys, be carefull with the BBT containers, will ya?
… and back to the hotel… finally a full night of sleep, the first full night since we arrived sunday….hmmmm…:)
We will have more Saturday and sunday, so stay tuned!!