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Chinese mini-lathe factory pictures etc.
If you are curious how chinese manufactures build the
mini-lathes and mini-mills that are sold by grizzly and harbor frieght etc, here is a nice picture tour of a modern chinese manufacturing plant that makes them. http://www.littlemachineshop.com/photos/lmsphotos.php Best Regards Tom. I love the inspection dept. |
Chinese mini-lathe factory pictures etc.
Very interesting pix, Tom. Thanx.
Bob Swinney "AZOTIC" wrote in message ... If you are curious how chinese manufactures build the mini-lathes and mini-mills that are sold by grizzly and harbor frieght etc, here is a nice picture tour of a modern chinese manufacturing plant that makes them. http://www.littlemachineshop.com/photos/lmsphotos.php Best Regards Tom. I love the inspection dept. |
Chinese mini-lathe factory pictures etc.
"AZOTIC" wrote in message ... If you are curious how chinese manufactures build the mini-lathes and mini-mills that are sold by grizzly and harbor frieght etc, here is a nice picture tour of a modern chinese manufacturing plant that makes them. http://www.littlemachineshop.com/photos/lmsphotos.php Best Regards Tom. I love the inspection dept. Notice how few of the guys in the shop are wearing safety glasses? -- Roger Shoaf About the time I had mastered getting the toothpaste back in the tube, then they come up with this striped stuff. |
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(AZOTIC) wrote in message ...
If you are curious how chinese manufactures build the mini-lathes and mini-mills that are sold by grizzly and harbor frieght etc, here is a nice picture tour of a modern chinese manufacturing plant that makes them. http://www.littlemachineshop.com/photos/lmsphotos.php Best Regards Tom. I love the inspection dept. Interesting. By coincidence, I just had a short "looky-see" tour of a Paris machine shop near where we are living for the summer. Not terribly different, although the Paris shop does have several CNC machines -- a couple mini vertical machining centers and a cnc lathe. However, they have a LOT of manual machines, and seem to be using them. I was walking by on my way to french class and the door was open, so I stuck my head in and asked if I could see the shop. Owner was happy to show me around. Several of the manual mills were in use, and a shaper. This is in a mixed residential and commercial neighborhood only a few metro stops from the center of Paris -- you don't find that kind of thing in the US cities anymore, of course. This shop does one-offs, modelmaking, production work, etc. |
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(AZOTIC) wrote in message ...
If you are curious how chinese manufactures build the mini-lathes and mini-mills that are sold by grizzly and harbor frieght etc, here is a nice picture tour of a modern chinese manufacturing plant that makes them. http://www.littlemachineshop.com/photos/lmsphotos.php Great series of photos. Thanks for posting them. And yes, their inspection department appears to be in the need of a most serious upgrade! Harry C. |
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"Bob Edwards" wrote in message
m... (AZOTIC) wrote in message ... If you are curious how chinese manufactures build the mini-lathes and mini-mills that are sold by grizzly and harbor frieght etc, here is a nice picture tour of a modern chinese manufacturing plant that makes them. http://www.littlemachineshop.com/photos/lmsphotos.php Best Regards Tom. I love the inspection dept. Interesting. By coincidence, I just had a short "looky-see" tour of a Paris machine shop near where we are living for the summer. Not terribly different, although the Paris shop does have several CNC machines -- a couple mini vertical machining centers and a cnc lathe. However, they have a LOT of manual machines, and seem to be using them. I was walking by on my way to french class and the door was open, so I stuck my head in and asked if I could see the shop. Owner was happy to show me around. Several of the manual mills were in use, and a shaper. This is in a mixed residential and commercial neighborhood only a few metro stops from the center of Paris -- you don't find that kind of thing in the US cities anymore, of course. This shop does one-offs, modelmaking, production work, etc. That sort of facility is still around in the UK, as well. Where I used to work we used to get prototypes made by a chap with a very well-equipped workshop, everything was manual. He was very busy. Leon -- Leon Heller, G1HSM http://www.geocities.com/leon_heller |
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"Bob Edwards" wrote in message
Interesting. By coincidence, I just had a short "looky-see" tour of a [...] you don't find that kind of thing in the US cities anymore, of course. This shop does one-offs, modelmaking, production work, etc. Maybe there are fewer than before, but I still see plenty of operations like that here in Seattle. Maritime industry (shafts & screws), aerospace (Boeing parts) and model-making for high tech products. |
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Notice in most pics they are not running the overhead lights...saving money over
being able to see detail???? "AZOTIC" wrote in message ... If you are curious how chinese manufactures build the mini-lathes and mini-mills that are sold by grizzly and harbor frieght etc, here is a nice picture tour of a modern chinese manufacturing plant that makes them. http://www.littlemachineshop.com/photos/lmsphotos.php Best Regards Tom. I love the inspection dept. Notice in most pics they are not running the overhead lights...saving money over being able to see detail???? |
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On 17 Jul 2004 12:03:34 -0700, (Harry Conover) wrote:
And yes, their inspection department appears to be in the need of a most serious upgrade! How can you upgrade the process of sticking a little QA sticker on something regardless of runout, slop, alignment or whatever :-) And for the record, I have a minilathe that I love (now that I've taken the time to blueprint it) so I'm not simply knocking the Chinese -- it's just that the paperwork that came with mine bore no resemblence to the actual measurements I made as to the machine's "out of the box" accuracy or alignment. -- you can contact me via http://aardvark.co.nz/contact/ Need a cruise missile? http://www.interestingprojects.com/needamissile.shtml |
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On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 10:17:03 -0700, "Roger Shoaf"
calmly ranted: http://www.littlemachineshop.com/photos/lmsphotos.php Tom. I love the inspection dept. Hey, NIIIICE surface plate! Notice how few of the guys in the shop are wearing safety glasses? Safety glasses? What are those? - This product cruelly tested on defenseless furry animals - -------------------------------------------------------- http://diversify.com Web App & Database Programming |
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On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 17:20:43 -0700, Larry Jaques
wrote: On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 10:17:03 -0700, "Roger Shoaf" calmly ranted: http://www.littlemachineshop.com/photos/lmsphotos.php Tom. I love the inspection dept. Hey, NIIIICE surface plate! Notice how few of the guys in the shop are wearing safety glasses? Safety glasses? What are those? I fancy the sandals for lathe operators..... - This product cruelly tested on defenseless furry animals - -------------------------------------------------------- http://diversify.com Web App & Database Programming Jon ---------------------------------------------------- Anything being cooked a second time needs a hot oven. |
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Leon Heller wrote:
"Bob Edwards" ... wrote ... Interesting. By coincidence, I just had a short "looky-see" tour of a Paris machine shop near where we are living for the summer. .... This is in a mixed residential and commercial neighborhood only a few metro stops from the center of Paris -- you don't find that kind of thing in the US cities anymore, of course. This shop does one-offs, modelmaking, production work, etc. That sort of facility is still around in the UK, as well. Where I used to work we used to get prototypes made by a chap with a very well-equipped workshop, everything was manual. He was very busy. .... I saw several little workshops ("engineering companies") in Coimbatore, India last month, and while I don't have pictures of those, I took pictures of some companies that supply the workshops; see http://pat7.com/ii/shops/ . One of the welding shops I saw does its larger work (like gates) on the sidewalk. Some stores put lathes and mills on the sidewalk for passers-by to look at. There are a couple of lathe manufacturers in Coimbatore, I think, but I doubt that they export much. -jiw |
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James Waldby wrote:
I took pictures of some companies that supply the workshops Fascinating. Every available space has a sign on it. Can you imagine Wal Mart trying to figure out how to put a big box store in a country like that. |
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On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 21:25:00 +0000, Rick wrote:
Notice in most pics they are not running the overhead lights...saving money over being able to see detail???? I suspect that they really don't need the overheads except at night or when there's heavy cloud cover. Those work areas seemed to all have lots of windows and nothing really beats the sun for illumination. -- The instructions said to use Windows 98 or better, so I installed RedHat. |
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As I was going through the pics I was thinking of how most
of them had large windows and natural lighting. Not like the dungeons that we in the U.S. have to work in. Wayne. "Rick" wrote in message ... Notice in most pics they are not running the overhead lights...saving money over being able to see detail???? "AZOTIC" wrote in message ... If you are curious how chinese manufactures build the mini-lathes and mini-mills that are sold by grizzly and harbor frieght etc, here is a nice picture tour of a modern chinese manufacturing plant that makes them. http://www.littlemachineshop.com/photos/lmsphotos.php Best Regards Tom. I love the inspection dept. Notice in most pics they are not running the overhead lights...saving money over being able to see detail???? |
Chinese mini-lathe factory pictures etc.
Look closely and you will see electrical panels that appear to have no covers
on them...... tim |
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On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 01:33:30 GMT, Shiver Me Timbers
calmly ranted: James Waldby wrote: I took pictures of some companies that supply the workshops Fascinating. Every available space has a sign on it. Can you imagine Wal Mart trying to figure out how to put a big box store in a country like that. They're already there, Shiv. WalMart has _many_ stores in 3rd world countries like Canada, Mexico, Germany, Korea, China, and the UK. - This product cruelly tested on defenseless furry animals - -------------------------------------------------------- http://diversify.com Web App & Database Programming |
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On 18 Jul 2004 03:25:13 GMT, (TSJABS) wrote:
Look closely and you will see electrical panels that appear to have no covers on them...... Wow, a country where they assume that the average worker *is* smart enough not to touch the live wires :-) -- you can contact me via http://aardvark.co.nz/contact/ Need a cruise missile? http://www.interestingprojects.com/needamissile.shtml |
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TSJABS writes:
Look closely and you will see electrical panels that appear to have no covers on them. Knob-and-tube, I presume? |
Chinese mini-lathe factory pictures etc.
That was a nice look into another culture. The safety glasses and open
electrical enclosures are open to interpretation. A dining hall/cafeteria and showers are mentioned, which might be seen as a sign of worker appreciation and/or respect. It seemed a little unusual that basketball was implied as a popular pastime exercise. I noticed that there were a few bicycles in one image. The contrast to U.S. facilities would be a huge parking lot with lots of financed overpowered new vehicles (or the usual amount of a mix of late model and older vehicles we see every day). Public transportation seems to be a viable replacement for individual image in some cultures. Another interesting aspect was that in the overall work areas and the engineering department image, there weren't a lot of cutesy personal items sitting around (as if the workers apparently go to work for a purpose). Few things **** me off more than going to a place of business or public office to find adults surrounded with toys and decorations, where their work area looks like a teen's room, or just a cool place to hang out. They're working a lot of cast iron, that's for sure. On the imported machines that I have, there are numerous cast parts where you'd normally expect to see steel. I'm generally suspicious of their circuit board work and electrical wiring connections inside their power tools. It's usually fairly low quality work, with poor solder connections and loose wire terminals. I can't say that I've heard a lot of complaints about component failures, so they're probably an average quality for most of Asia. Their AC motors typically don't include any thermal protection, which can be expected in most european and U.S. consumer and commercial equipment. I think more folks are finding out that some of the machinery from China isn't too bad for getting started in the metalworking hobby, particularly for something like the mini-lathes. WB ............ "AZOTIC" wrote in message ... If you are curious how chinese manufactures build the mini-lathes and mini-mills that are sold by grizzly and harbor frieght etc, here is a nice picture tour of a modern chinese manufacturing plant that makes them. http://www.littlemachineshop.com/photos/lmsphotos.php Best Regards Tom. I love the inspection dept. |
Chinese mini-lathe factory pictures etc.
That was a nice look into another culture. The safety glasses and open
electrical enclosures are open to interpretation. A dining hall/cafeteria and showers are mentioned, which might be seen as a sign of worker appreciation and/or respect. What i found interesting is the lack of multiple layers of management, it seems that a buyer can deal directly with the plant owner and negotiate a price for 1000 machines and have a done deal in one day. It's amazing to see what can be accomplished when management doesn't get in the way. Perhaps the chinese have a better business model than most US corporations can offer. Best Regards Tom. |
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Larry Jaques wrote:
They're already there, Shiv. WalMart has _many_ stores in 3rd world countries like Canada, Mexico, Germany, Korea, China, and the UK. And there's the attitude that you share with your president that's going to turn the USA into a third world country real soon. Lance |
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In article , Roger Shoaf says...
Notice how few of the guys in the shop are wearing safety glasses? That's odd. I didn't see *any* safety glasses at all. Honest - and I looked! Jim ================================================== please reply to: JRR(zero) at yktvmv (dot) vnet (dot) ibm (dot) com ================================================== |
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Canada, Germany and the UK are third world countries?
You're an intellectual retard!!! Larry Jaques wrote in : They're already there, Shiv. WalMart has _many_ stores in 3rd world countries like Canada, Mexico, Germany, Korea, China, and the UK. |
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In article , C.A. Decker says...
Canada, Germany and the UK are third world countries? They're already there, Shiv. WalMart has _many_ stores in 3rd world countries like Canada, Mexico, Germany, Korea, China, and the UK. LOL. I *missed* that the first time. Thanks for pointing out the funny. Jim ================================================== please reply to: JRR(zero) at yktvmv (dot) vnet (dot) ibm (dot) com ================================================== |
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On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 16:34:19 GMT, "C.A. Decker"
wrote: Canada, Germany and the UK are third world countries? You're an intellectual retard!!! Larry Jaques wrote in : They're already there, Shiv. WalMart has _many_ stores in 3rd world countries like Canada, Mexico, Germany, Korea, China, and the UK. According to a lot of 'murkanz. Gerry :-)} London, Canada |
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On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 14:20:03 GMT, Lance A Boyle
calmly ranted: Larry Jaques wrote: They're already there, Shiv. WalMart has _many_ stores in 3rd world countries like Canada, Mexico, Germany, Korea, China, and the UK. And there's the attitude that you share with your president that's going to turn the USA into a third world country real soon. You can't even take a joke, eh, hoser? - Better Living Through Denial ------------ http://diversify.com Dynamic Websites, PHP Apps, MySQL databases |
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On 18 Jul 2004 11:49:53 -0700, jim rozen
calmly ranted: In article , C.A. Decker says... Canada, Germany and the UK are third world countries? They're already there, Shiv. WalMart has _many_ stores in 3rd world countries like Canada, Mexico, Germany, Korea, China, and the UK. LOL. I *missed* that the first time. Thanks for pointing out the funny. I caught two on that hook in one day, and the day's not over yet, Jim. I wonder what my score will be by tomorrow... - Better Living Through Denial ------------ http://diversify.com Dynamic Websites, PHP Apps, MySQL databases |
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On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 20:24:52 +0000, James Waldby wrote:
I saw several little workshops ("engineering companies") in Coimbatore, India last month, and while I don't have pictures of those, I took pictures of some companies that supply the workshops; see http://pat7.com/ii/shops/ . One of the welding shops I saw does its larger work (like gates) on the sidewalk. Some stores put lathes and mills on the sidewalk for passers-by to look at. There are a couple of lathe manufacturers in Coimbatore, I think, but I doubt that they export much. -jiw Is the red tank in http://pat7.com/ii/shops/0601_022r.jpg a compressor? It somewhat resembles an acetylene generator. More to the left of the pic and partially hidden by the lamp post there is another one, with a small tank attached to it ( acetylene reservoir?) -- Regards, Mongke |
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Learn how to tell an intelligent joke, loser.
Larry Jaques wrote in : You can't even take a joke, eh, hoser? |
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Is the red tank in http://pat7.com/ii/shops/0601_022r.jpg a compressor?
It somewhat resembles an acetylene generator. More to the left of the pic and partially hidden by the lamp post there is another one, with a small tank attached to it ( acetylene reservoir?) -- Regards, Mongke They look like a couple of pressure sandblasters to me. GTO(John) |
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"jim rozen" wrote in message ... In article , Roger Shoaf says... Notice how few of the guys in the shop are wearing safety glasses? That's odd. I didn't see *any* safety glasses at all. Honest - and I looked! Second photo, guy on lathe wearing blue shirt. Inspection department. Maybe these guys were wearing regular glasses rather than safety glasses, but those were the only shots of people in the shop wearing glasses. -- Roger Shoaf About the time I had mastered getting the toothpaste back in the tube, then they come up with this striped stuff. |
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Look closely and you will see electrical panels that appear to have no
covers on them...... Wow, a country where they assume that the average worker *is* smart enough not to touch the live wires :-) Or perhaps a country that enforces Darwinism and actually hopes that someone WILL touch the live wires and help cleanse the gene pool. From everything I've seen of population counts, they have LOTS of bodies to spare. Mike |
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On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 20:20:18 -0500, "The Davenports"
wrote: Look closely and you will see electrical panels that appear to have no covers on them...... Wow, a country where they assume that the average worker *is* smart enough not to touch the live wires :-) Or perhaps a country that enforces Darwinism and actually hopes that someone WILL touch the live wires and help cleanse the gene pool. From everything I've seen of population counts, they have LOTS of bodies to spare. Perhaps it's there way of making sure there are plenty of cornea donors for those guys without their safety-glasses. :-) -- you can contact me via http://aardvark.co.nz/contact/ Need a cruise missile? http://www.interestingprojects.com/needamissile.shtml |
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"Wild Bill" wrote in message ...
.... Another interesting aspect was that in the overall work areas and the engineering department image, there weren't a lot of cutesy personal items sitting around (as if the workers apparently go to work for a purpose). Few things **** me off more than going to a place of business or public office to find adults surrounded with toys and decorations, where their work area looks like a teen's room, or just a cool place to hang out. Why would that **** you off? Just because someone likes an adorned work area doesn't mean they have a poor work ethic. I used to practically live in my office (I owned the company), so having it "comfortable" made it a whole lot more tolerable than a sterile, white office. In fact, I encouraged my employees to personalize their office space to make life at the office enjoyable. In return, we had happy and loyal employees and an extremely productive business. |
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On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 23:45:36 GMT, "C.A. Decker"
calmly ranted: Learn how to tell an intelligent joke, loser. My, my, my, aren't we touchy? How does that hook in your lip feel, anyway? ;) - Press HERE to arm. (Release to detonate.) ----------- http://diversify.com Website Application Programming |
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"T.Inoue" wrote in message om... "Wild Bill" wrote in message ... ... Another interesting aspect was that in the overall work areas and the engineering department image, there weren't a lot of cutesy personal items sitting around (as if the workers apparently go to work for a purpose). Few things **** me off more than going to a place of business or public office to find adults surrounded with toys and decorations, where their work area looks like a teen's room, or just a cool place to hang out. Why would that **** you off? Just because someone likes an adorned work area doesn't mean they have a poor work ethic. I used to practically live in my office (I owned the company), so having it "comfortable" made it a whole lot more tolerable than a sterile, white office. In fact, I encouraged my employees to personalize their office space to make life at the office enjoyable. In return, we had happy and loyal employees and an extremely productive business. Its "Nesting" and its integral to human nature. If you want your employees to be "replaceable drones" you put them in a standardised box, view them as drain on the business .. and get the quality of work, the desire to unionise/strike, the complete lack of loyalty and the hostile work environment you've created. You allow them their trinkets, their personalisation, allow them to put their imprint on the company and even help build it and you have employees who will work their butt off for you when you need it. Who if you ever do have to lay them off will speak highly of you and your prroducts to everyone they know and realise it wasnt something you could avoid, and who will try to find ways to improve the business and help it make more money. Its also the model american business has forgotten about (and is paying for). Isnt it nice that the republicans are helping make the tyrannical chinese communists the worlds industrial superpower? |
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GTO69RA4 wrote:
mongke wrote: [re http://pat7.com/ii/shops/ ] Is the red tank in http://pat7.com/ii/shops/0601_022r.jpg a compressor? It somewhat resembles an acetylene generator. More to the left of the pic and partially hidden by the lamp post there is another one, with a small tank attached to it ( acetylene reservoir?) .... They look like a couple of pressure sandblasters to me. .... I don't know which it is - maybe I'll find out on my next trip, this winter. I've put up some more pictures (trucks, bullocks, motorcycles) at http://pat7.com/ii/traffic/ . -jiw |
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James Waldby wrote:
I've put up some more pictures (trucks, bullocks, motorcycles) at http://pat7.com/ii/traffic/ . Keep them coming James.... They are very interesting to view. Please and thank you. |
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