Camshaft Installation and Painting

it by hand they'll go through and they'll make sure that they get all the angles and rotate it they'll flip it up so we can paint the bell housing and it gets a really nice finish coming out of the booth it's simple and it's effective and it really works for what we're trying to do just a magnet this is like a refrigerator magnet exactly that's so cool you got some stuff that's like super refined cutting edge technology and then magnets and paint booths yeah and if you think about it like that's just a different size soft plug we're willing to invest but we want our investment to go where it adds the most value for our customers investing in cnc equipment and a really tight tolerance capable equipment is really important for us for us whether you spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a sophisticated paint booth or you use some magnets and have somebody do it by hand the quality ends up being the same in the end so you know as our volume goes up the capital investment to put an automated booth in might make a lot more sense for what we're producing today having somebody do it by hand still works for us very well now you can see like this is for like a to be like for a ford you can see how it's blue the water pump surface on a ford is different than a water pump surface on a small block chevy and the finished ones roll over there yeah we've got we've we're in the process because of our volume of splitting up the line so this line right here is is a is a lower volume high mix line so this line would run this is a big block chevy this is a big block chevy that's a 509 we would run our 632s 572s down this line eventually our ls's will run down this line and you can see everywhere you see a blue station the operators have built their own workstation for use inside of the line so we give them the ability to set up their workstation in a way that means more to them instead of me saying this is how your station is going to be they get the chance to go through and set that up so this is a new line that's in development for us um where we'll be installing technology like a head robot which we're going to see here in a little bit