24 février 2018 - BBT Travels
Thursday and friday we visited more factories, let’s start with a tail light company, who will make our Bay window tail lights soon!
This is the raw material for your tail light lenses!
Very nice and well organised, clean factory!!
and on to the next, just a street view of a Sao Paolo suburb, traffic is NOT alone in Antwerp, but also over here…:)
Next was a real cool and small factory who is specialised in emergency brake handles and smaller quantity parts…
Yes excenter presses are absolutely my favourite machines…
and on to the next, discussing more push rod tubes with Mr Wilson… compare the reproductions with NOS ones, and learn what is changed on a push rod tube in the last 40 years orso…
The cut away model learned us a lot… I could never imagine that there was so much technology in a “stupid” push rod tube!
followed by an extra ordinary mandatory dinner, with many caiparinha, beer, and off course a lot of meat!
Friday morning first stop was IGP, our trusty sheet metal supplier… IGP is a real big factory!
…with many and especially huge presses!
Jerry was pretty impressed for sure!
Floorplates ready for paint…
… and painted…
the IGP parts been “dipped” in a water based coating…
as I said, IGP is a huge operation!
Jerry is inspecting some moulds in the tooling dept.
From IGP we drove to one of the worlds largest ignition cable manufacturers, around two million sets a year been produced here!
Everything is controlled, and even weighted!
A fresh delivery for Bosch, fitted almost in my pockets…:)
From the ignition cable factory we drove to the port for a meeting with our new consolidator, we ship a 40ft container every 4 weeks now out of Santos, so time to talk!
Hey guys, be carefull with the BBT containers, will ya?
… and back to the hotel… finally a full night of sleep, the first full night since we arrived sunday….hmmmm…:)
We will have more Saturday and sunday, so stay tuned!!
23 février 2018 - NEW
Welcome to BBT’s Friday Product Update…
Now that Bob and Jerry are visiting our Brazilian suppliers and manufacturers, it doesn’t mean our purchase department is taking it easy.
To complete our range of wiring harnesses we now have the missing ones for VW beetle convertibles AND for 181… We know the pictures all look the same or about, but if you click on the picture it guides you directly to the right product in our online catalogue!
Are you ready to order?
0692-5859 Wiring harness Beetle Convertible 1958-59
0692-6060 Wiring harness Beetle Convertible 1960
0692-6161 Wiring harness Beetle Convertible 1961
0692-6264 Wiring harness Beetle Convertible 1962-64
0692-7171 Wiring harness Beetle Convertible 1971
0692-7272 Wiring harness Beetle Convertible 1972
0693-181 Main wiring harness Type 181
They were for a long time unavailable, but now we have these cool products back in stock !
0307 Cal-Look front window rubber Super Beetle 73-
0343-1 Outer pop-out seal (pair) Beetle -64
7417 Side Window seal fixed – Bus -07/67
We have these cool vent wing locks in our program since 2014, but…. we’ve found out that our description wasn’t very accurate!
We tested and fitted on to our buses to figure exactly out what it’s all about…
0517-950 and 0517-955 are for center and rear side ventwing for your Bay window, our 0517-05 and 0517-06 are for the front vent wings (yes, the ones in your cab doors), these are the same as for Beetle 68- and type 3 71-
0517-950 Ventwing lock middle and rear – Bus 08/67-07/79 left
0517-955 Ventwing lock middle and rear – Bus 08/67-07/79 right
The BBT FPU team wishes you all a fantastic weekend, and to Bob and Jerry safe travels!!
22 février 2018 - Random
Yesterday we visit five more factories, and yes, we really worked hard on new and existing product lines!
First we visit the factory that is making for us the new camgear for our 30 DIN (36 SAE) HP okrasa camshafts…
Samples been displayed upon arrival in the meeting room!
The machine park was amazing!
Jerry got the whole explanation from Eloah!!
78 years and still going strong! Who told You working shouldn’t be good for you?
Next we went to a factory that makes only king and link pin components, we’re working on a big project with this company…
They have their own copper foundry for the bushing… like yesterday… this is not soup, but fluid copper!
From there we went to a factory that does specialise in forged bolts and nuts….
Fuscas as they call beetles over here are still everywhere, this yellow sunshine beetle we spotted on a parking of a shopping mall!
The bumper factory didn’t like pictures too much… respect, but our trusty supplier Universal (Locks and small parts) didn’t mind, we visit their state of the art distribution centre… 600 orders a day! Driven on latest technology!
Jerry tried to mess up there central computer centre…. believe me or not over 500 devices been connected here!
The export team that ALWAYS helps us out…is glad to pose with us!
State of the art building too… 12.000m2! Can you spot Jerry in the picture?
and back to the hotel… we spot this little Kombi just down the road!
Tomorrow another day and more visits, so stay tuned!