BBT panels get a recognition on its own, the Silver weld through coating… no need anymore to grind coating off before welding… our panels can be weld right through our coating!
Massive amount of panels await their coating in this factory department.
First the “E” coating process, E coating is dipped, silver Weld Through is sprayed on, that’s the important difference.
E coating can be compared with powder coating except E coating is dipped (in a bath) while powder coating is sprayed.
The fact the parts are loaded with electricity makes the paint or coat gets equal thickness everywhere… this both for E coating and Silver weld Through.
The E coating needs massive drying tunnels…
The silver Weld through coating is applied by spray gun in a spray booth….
….and dries in open air, it’s very environmental friendly…
Not all parts can be silver weld through coated because of their construction, or assembly, here’s BBT treasure chest door in E coat Black… finished, ready for packing and shipment
We continue our tour in another department, the small parts dept…
Here’s the master tool to laser our Cargo doors…
And the trimming of the tool for the corner window corners…
Headlight bowls… Off course they will be in our fenders, but we want the correct ones, a lot of investigation was done in these, we will have two models, 49-52 (Split) and 53-59 (Oval)
We will also sell separately and we have already both models to cover Bus 55-67…
First hit on our Top Quality 64-66 rear valence… absolute BBT private tooling.
Hot VW’s Shin is checking out our door lock assemblies for bus cab doors…
Also here a very cool banner moment!
