Travis tour day

[Swedishchef]

Wow BeGreen. That is an impressive factory. I'd love to get a peek at it some day.

Andrew

 

[webbie]

I have some pics from the tour I took back when.....they can be found at the internet archive and other places (Jim has them somewhere buried here on the site....but they were in the old CMS, so cannot be easily found. I will see what I have on my machine from the originals.

 

[webbie]

Ah, here is the one I was looking for - a pano!

 

[begreen]

Yes, that looks like the sandblast/paint area. The place is enormous.

 

[webbie]

Yes, that looks like the sandblast/paint area. The place is enormous.

2005 - I put that together as a pano with a couple shots from my old 5MP Sony DSC-707.
loved that cam! I have the rest of the pics...maybe I'll figure out this galley thing and start loading some of the old stuff up that may have wandered off the site due to age (old CMS, static galleries, etc.).

 

[Espartaco]

Would love to do this tour of day. It has been a long stove buying journey for me but have a Lopi Evergreen sitting on a dolly waiting for the pipe with to finish. Hold I can catch the train end of the storm with a fire. My with and I opted for the Evergreen with the pedestal. When we picked it up a couple of days ago I got to see the Rockport, loved the size.

 

[begreen]

If you're going to be up for more than a day. combine it with the Boeing tour while you are up in the area. Both operations are very large. You can do both in a day by booking the Travis tour in the morning, have lunch, then the Boeing tour in the afternoon.

 

[georgepds]

......
One thing I really wanted to take a picture of was the fellow hammering out the details for the iron finish on the fireplace on an anvil. Every piece is unique and beautiful....., etc..

Slightly off topic...I once visited the McCauley propeller factory ( props for Cessna 172 and the like). I believe the initial aluminium form was forged ( perhaps cast) and the final form hand sanded. The final finish on the prop was done by a guy with the biggest forearms I've ever seen, I swear they'd put Easter hams to shame for size. He'd sand for a bit, and then match the finished surface to a template at each radii.

This was late 70's.. probably all done numerically controlled now

 

[begreen]

Wish I could have taken a picture of the big fellow pounding out their hammered surrounds on an anvil. His arms were bigger than my legs. I was surprised that each one is custom hammered that way. the shop was full of the latest tech and here was this one guy pounding out the hammered pattern and edges by hand.