Here we are….way in the back. Notice the palm trees behind the building and the blue sky…..must be California!
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We’d show you a picture of liz’s desk…..
but we can’t find it. Here she is in packaging aisle.
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Lotsa machines…
Drill presses, lathes, milling machines, engravers…
you name it, we have it!
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We have a number of injection molding machines. Plastic pellets are placed in the hopper, travel down to the heating unit and then the melted plastic is forced into the engraved mold.
For many of our small parts, we use hand operated machines which were made in the Grandt shop to suit our needs. The larger molds are placed in the automatic machines,
This is a small hand press. Notice the open die near the operator’s hand. |
One of our automatic presses |
Cutting a die on our HUGE CNC machine…
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Peter writing a program for new windows…
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Big and little dies
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Lotsa dies
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Research and Development
We use prototype items and blue prints to be certain that our parts are accurate.
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This is just some of the research that went into one of our kits: C&S Caboose #1006. Note the C&S blueprint, Cliff’s measurements, photos and the final result.
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We are green! We regrind our waste material.
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Maintenance Department…..
lots of recycling goes on here, too.
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