27 october 2019 - Random
It’s definitely over 12 years ago since Bob started to find a right manufacturer for the early beetle fenders… He inquired in many factories, in South America, Europe and Asia. Till he found a partner at our Silver Weld Through factory…
We started the tooling in 2015, over 4 years ago, 4 long years, but the result is stunning!
Dear friends,
May Bob introduce you the BBT tooling for the BBT early beetle fenders.
These tooling are an exclusive joint venture between the Silver Weld through factory and BBT and the fenders will be exclusively available through the BBT distribution network.
Worldwide that is….
This is what we need to press you one pair of fenders, actually the last restrike tool is not finished yet, and the tools for the headlight buckets are neither in the picture…
US$ 350.000 investment, only to bring you, the Volkswagen aficionado, the perfect fender!
No compromise!
See the series of tooling compared to Bob or the big 10 ton capacity forklift (or to Bob somewhere in between)…
Can You imagine the size and weight????
The VW journalists who joined me this trip went all over the place when they saw our tooling.
They captured at least a thousand pictures!!
Hot VW’s magazine editor Shin brought out his drone to capture our tooling for the tetris challenge, and for his feature in HOT VW’s magazine, this blog is written with his personal permission…
Make sure not to miss out on Hot VWs magazine that feature this trip and the fender tooling!
They need a 10 ton forklift to drive the tooling around…
This is only the female tooling of the first hit tool…
There’s 8 stampings needed , so 8 sets of tools, male, female and drophead…
Times two for left and right… that’s a LOT of castings!
… and we didn’t talk about the headlight bowl yet…:)
Next “flat tetris picture” is voted the most funny shot of the trip by all of us…
Picture credit goes 100% to Airmighty editor Niels.
Thanks for sharing this with us Niels!
Ok, now… some words… words of Thank You….and deep respect.
Especially and before all to Mr GT, the deep drawing pressing genius, unbelievable. If I was hindoe, and believed in reincarnation, MR GT was a deep draw press in his previous life. Because he was so good and stamped so well, he came back as a human being to operate and coordinate presses! Unbelievable knowledge this man has!
Second, Kevin LO my direct and daily contact in the factory; Kevin, I know You went very deep on “our” fender project, I like to thank You very personally. Also out of the complete VW community for bringing this product to us… it will help to make so much more cars so much better…
I also like to thank Hot VW’s Shin, Airmighty Niels and Camper and Commercial Andy for their support during this trip on my project… the many pictures, posts and the fun we had!
Last but no last I like to thank out of the deepest of my heart my whole BBT team, without you guys, this fender project could not had even started!
Thank You, thank You, thank You to everybody, we made it!!
The 49-59 beetle front fender is almost finished,
First container estimated to arrive @ BBT HQ February or March 2020.
Pre orders been taking now…
Dealer inquires always welcome!
Don’t delay contact BBT today…
Frederik@BBT4VW.com or Stephan@BBT4VW.com
Info@BBT4VW.com
26 october 2019 - Friends of the house
25 october 2019 - NEW
Headlines that keep on dominating the news is Trump and China (are they a couple perhaps?) and Brexit from Mr Johnson, or it look that it’s his anyway… it gets a little boring, isn’t it?
Well, here at BBT we will fresh up your day, as we have a lot of exciting new products this week…
Let’s start with the new silver weld through panels we received recently…
As a first we have the side panels for the pick-up truck, these are the panels from the rockers all the way up to the loading bed…. We started production of the short ones first (from the side of the treasure chest) what we can deliver from our shelves now.
The long ones are under development, but the tooling takes a little longer as expected.
0890-949 Side flank short left pick-up (single cab) – Bus -07/62
0890-951 Side flank short right pick-up (single cab) – Bus -07/62
To continue with the very specific bulkhead for the single cab pick-up truck… this does not have the embossement below to create the extra foot space like a bus….
The double cab uses the same as the normal (late model) bus.
0890-797 Bulkhead Pick-up – Bus -07/67 BBT
And we add also a couple of C posts this week… the C post is the post right behind the cargo door that holds the hinges of your rear cargo door… the complete C-post for left side 03/55-12/60 we supply already longer time under BBT ref 0890-920, so now we have the family complete
0890-921 C-post Complete Right, cargodoor – Bus 03/55-12/60
0890-922 C-post Complete Left, cargodoor – Bus 12/60-07/67
0890-923 C-post Complete Right, cargodoor – Bus 12/60-07/67
To mount your window washer rubber line to your window washer bottle you will need this very specific nut.
The exactly like original rubber window washer hose we deliver from our shelves under BBT ref 2462
We’ve been way too long out of the valve adjuster screws for Type 1 engines. The simple reason was we didn’t find anything to match the by us required quality!
The top of the screw that touch the valve needs to have a certain hardness. We tested many parts on the market, but only this one fulfilled our requirements.
Want to do the test on your adjusting screws? Very easy, put a file on the top, if the file bytes into the metal your metal is too soft, unfortunately. If the file goes over the metal like you filing on glass or a mirror (or at least You get that feeling) your screws are hard enough. Simple and efficient…:)
The ones we stock now are good and tested to correct hardness on a Rockwell hardness tester.
To assure the correct hardness, buy ours, there’s no better on the market….
Don’t blow your engine because of stupid incorrect cheap valve adjusting screws.
1784-15 Stock style adjuster screw rocker arm (1 pc) – German
Yes they’re back!!
The BBT 25/30Din Hp (that’s 36 SAE for our American friends) camshafts for as well the stock engines, as the “Okrasa” style for the vintage speed engines.
We supply also the correct BBT camgear for these camshafts under BBT ref 1624-900 and cam gear bolts under BBT ref 1623-900.
1629-90 Camshaft T1 25-30HP BBT
1629-91 Camshaft T1 25/30HP Okrasa BBT
The BBT News team wish you a wonderful and exciting weekend…