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Who'd have thunk it?
Posted by Joe Johnson, Engineer on team #47, Chief Delphi, from Pontiac Central High School and Delphi Automotive Systems.
Posted on 4/21/99 4:56 AM MST
In Reply to: Yep posted by Bill Beatty on 4/20/99 11:37 PM MST:
Bill,
I never would have guessed that F-P would rather deal with different housings rather than simply a different cluster gear on the first stage.
I suppose that means that
1) they are assembling them by hand and/or
2) the volume is huge so they can justify spending the extra bucks to tool up the different housings.
I would have guessed that the housing tool was much more expensive than a cluster gear tool, so I supposed that that is the choice they would have made. I also supposed that they had a bunch of automatic machines assembling those black beauties. Again, I would have thought that the difference in center distance from one housing to another would be more difficult to deal with than a simple swap of one part for another.
Well, I supposed wrong...
Joe J.
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