Xander Wildeisen Posted September 15, 2016 Share Posted September 15, 2016 You might have seen this, but cool to watch again. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpage Posted September 16, 2016 Share Posted September 16, 2016 Too bad that we can't go back to the days when everything was really made from scratch here in the U.S. Now almost every company prostitutes itself to other countries for low cost but high resale prices, killing our manufacturing base and our workforce and we sell all of our natural resources to these countries for big bucks. what's going to happen when the supply runs out or the world gets entangled in another world war. We won't be able to sustain ourselves and every other country has all our technology! How sad to give our country away for a few measly bucks! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
padgett Posted September 16, 2016 Share Posted September 16, 2016 Ford Rouge plant used to be one stop - raw materials went in one end and Fords came out the other. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xander Wildeisen Posted September 16, 2016 Author Share Posted September 16, 2016 what, What, WHAT? Now I know why my grandfather could not hear anything. And why he all ways said watch your fingers. Love the lack of safety glasses, hearing protection, gloves and one step to the right or left, and you will loose that arm. Back when if you did not pay attention you got hurt at work. Safety has come a long way, and that is good. All of that great tooling was made here as well. What have we done to ourselves in this country? To loose all of this great stuff. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Harwood Posted September 16, 2016 Share Posted September 16, 2016 Keep shopping at Wal-Mart and arguing over the prices of things--that's what chases manufacturing overseas. We've done it to ourselves. We want high-paying jobs and low-cost goods. Can't have it both ways. America, home of the entitled. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
46 woodie Posted September 16, 2016 Share Posted September 16, 2016 The size of the presses was amazing. All those men now replaced by robotics. jpage, you don't have to worry about WW III. It won't be like WW II when we tooled up as a nation and built many thousand planes, boats and tanks. Those days are gone, it will all come down to a push of a button and a mushroom cloud. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xander Wildeisen Posted September 16, 2016 Author Share Posted September 16, 2016 When you watch it, you see guys throwing around stamped roofs. And there is not a over weight guy in the bunch. No need to go to a gym after work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cahartley Posted September 16, 2016 Share Posted September 16, 2016 The thing that most amazes me about these things is the machines that made the machines. That level of automation back then, and much earlier, is truly astounding. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Harwood Posted September 16, 2016 Share Posted September 16, 2016 OMG! Look how careful they're NOT being with those priceless antique car parts! Toss. Smash. Hammer. Shove. Didn't they realize they were building 100-point perfection? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xander Wildeisen Posted September 16, 2016 Author Share Posted September 16, 2016 It is funny that new machines have all of these safety guards on them. If you look at the guys running the presses. Both guys have to be pushing both buttons, in order for the press to work. You can not get your hand smashed when it is on the button. Safety with out the BS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emjay Posted September 16, 2016 Share Posted September 16, 2016 That was no small feat to balance the line and divide each assembly into one second tasks. Then there is all the tooling required - big investment and you can image the time it took for change over. All the new tooling had to be staged and ready for implementation. All done by the human mind, planning and planning. Major problem is only one station broke down, very high reliability. What 36 Ford has semi elliptical springs and a straight 6 with the carburetor on the left side? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 16, 2016 Share Posted September 16, 2016 I thought the film was about building 1936 Chevrolets. I didn't see any reference to Ford. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesBulldogMiller55Buick Posted September 17, 2016 Share Posted September 17, 2016 Thanks for posting that video Most interesting !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
padgett Posted September 17, 2016 Share Posted September 17, 2016 " it will all come down to a push of a button and a mushroom cloud. " - EMP does not create a cloud. Thought the idea was to outsource/import everything we can so the other guy uses up their raw materials and concentrate on the things no-one else can do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xander Wildeisen Posted September 17, 2016 Author Share Posted September 17, 2016 I wonder what one of those guys would say to some one walking through looking for a pokemon on their phone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emjay Posted September 17, 2016 Share Posted September 17, 2016 There go my reading skills again. I turned Footage into Ford. My bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curti Posted September 17, 2016 Share Posted September 17, 2016 Late 1936 after Chevrolet made the change to the new turret top. I found it a bit strange that a truck frame came down the same line as the passenger cars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Zimmermann Posted September 17, 2016 Share Posted September 17, 2016 5 hours ago, emjay said: There go my reading skills again. I turned Footage into Ford. My bad. I did the same mistake! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michel88 Posted September 18, 2016 Share Posted September 18, 2016 My first good job that paid me a good wage was working in the production machine shop at Black & Decker power tools. Back then (1965) almost every part in their power tools was made by them. They even made and wound the armatures. It's hard to imagine that any more. Computers have also led to major job losses. I later became a draftsman and in the early seventies there were huge rooms of draftsman and engineers. One room I remember must have had about 75 draftsman in it. So many that I did not even know the guys in the front of the room. In the nineties it changed to to less than a dozen in cubicles doing the work. This was because of computers . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Skyking Posted September 19, 2016 Share Posted September 19, 2016 "There was time when automobiles were built in Flint and you couldn't drink the water in Mexico.....now the automobiles are built in Mexico and you can't drink the water in Flint" Donald J Trump Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Schramm Posted September 19, 2016 Share Posted September 19, 2016 On 9/16/2016 at 4:37 PM, emjay said: That was no small feat to balance the line and divide each assembly into one second tasks. Then there is all the tooling required - big investment and you can image the time it took for change over. All the new tooling had to be staged and ready for implementation. All done by the human mind, planning and planning. Major problem is only one station broke down, very high reliability. What 36 Ford has semi elliptical springs and a straight 6 with the carburetor on the left side? Years ago like in the 60's & earlier model change over could last up to a month or more. Now there might not even be a day or an hour off. As the car goes down the line one could be a '16 and the next one could be a '17. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xander Wildeisen Posted September 19, 2016 Author Share Posted September 19, 2016 I do not know of any one who would restore/build a car. And put the grill, fenders and running boards on. Then put the body on.(and they wrestle it on) Interesting to see it done that way. Would make sense from a production stand point. When they install the engine, it looks like they hang it from the exhaust manifold. Like said above, they were rough with the parts. But at that point they were building history, now you are restoring/preserving history. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hudsy Wudsy Posted September 19, 2016 Share Posted September 19, 2016 I'm sure that the monotony would be tedious, but these guys were making a decent living wage during the depression. We are lucky that such great film exists. Wouldn't it be neat to see how GM (Fleetwood) wrapped sheet medal around wooden inner frames to make those beautiful, but short lived, bodies of the early to mid thirties? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Schramm Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 I worked on the line producing components while in college. It is/was boring work but it paid well. Got out of school and owed nothing. The first job I had was working on a line where we maid 2,000 fuel tank sending unit on an 8 hour shift. No complaints for my time working manufacturing as it gave me experiences that were valuable in my later positions on product design and customer satisfaction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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