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Re: Loose Door Stop Torx Screws
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Posted by Randy Thatcher [Email] (#22) [Profile/Gallery] (more from Randy Thatcher) on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 11:22:53 Share Post by Email
In Reply to: Re: Loose Door Stop Torx Screws, Mike Lynch [Profile/Gallery] , Tue, 11 Sep 2007 11:09:04
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I'm not sure about the steel. Thickness I'm sure is different. Paint is paint, though. It always goes something like this:

phosphate dip tank (cleaning)
e-coat dip tank (protective coating and charging)
oven
pvc / sealer
primer booth
primer oven
topcoat booth (basecoat, topcoat, clearcoat when necessary)
topcoat oven

Things that have changed over the years are applicators (hand paint, gantry sprayers, robots with long paint lines, canister based robots), but the overall steps are similar. What really drives things is the paint vendors: PPG, DuPont, etc. They do waterborne, solvent based, thinner coats, etc.

It's funny, Toyota has different standards. USA has a lower spec than Japan or Middle East. Look at the orange peel on nearly any car sold in the US. Then look at a Bentley. Smooooooooth. Lexus and high end Toyotas in Japan look great. Most people have no idea what orange peel is, or even notice it. But if you look at a restored show car with a perfect wet sanded paint job, or a super high end car, you see a great paint job.

As for keeping me out... Toyota will always do things their way. I just implement their systems. We offer kaizens/improvements, but the concept is always theirs. Every other automaker is coming up with their own way, but let's face it, they're trying to mimic the Toyota way. Something tells me running my mouth could benefit SAAB more than SAAB guys blabbing would help Toyota. Toyota is building so many plants they learn what works and doesn't work all the time. At 3 plants a year, they must be doing something right!

Mike - so who can set me up?

Randy

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