India Photos ~ RMPS

[hotater]

Tom Robbins once wrote:  " As optimistic as a new-born fly in a Mexican resturant."    He obviously never saw an Indian tea shop!

I have a Prakash oil sample if anyone would like to send it off to see if it was 'new' oil or not.     

Great pictures...it's a lot like meeting new in-laws for the first time....and finding they live in a cave with oil drum funiture.

[gpkull]

the idea of no mufflers is so they never hear them knocking

[bitsnpieces1]

We have our ways of cutting fractions of a penny from the cost of a unit (chiefly through use of more cheap energy), and they have theirs (apparently through use of more cheap labor).
  The dyno is a brake horesepower unit.  Just homemade with what they had.  Do the calculations and you can get the same numbers.
  To some extent I can see the situation there with the fast food shop and tea shop.  How clean and well maintained do you think McDonalds would be if they could only charge 26cents for a whopper, but, it was the only way to stay alive. 

[MeanListerGreen]

You have obviously never paid much attention to what it looks like back there where they cook the hamburgers at McDonalds 

[bitsnpieces1]

  Granted about the McDonalds.  But I have eaten at a few one man greasy spoons where you can get a $10.00 meal for $4.50 as long as you willing to accept that the little crevices haven't been scrubbed clean in 20-30 years.  The work surfaces are very clean, however, "High Class" diners at a fancy restaurant would tend to run away from the place rapidly as being eicky!  You know the ones that sue you because they spilled hot coffee on themselves. 

[binnie]

Here is a little tour of the Dursley Lister works in the 1930's. The first few picts of the factory are very reminiscent of the India Picts from Eric. Give them some time & they'll get it together.
http://www.dursleyglos.plus.com/dursleyglos/html/dursley/industry/listers/works_tour/works_tour.htm 
binnie

[biobill]

That was really neat Binnie. I wonder how many miles of overhead belts they had?     Bill

[hotater]

The first few pictures of the Dursley works was the foundry,  not the assembly room!

The Dursley works shows a clean, organized and well thought out manufacturing facility using space, light and energy to best advantage.

  It looks like some of the Indian works haven't made it to 1930 levels yet, but I agree with Binnie.  They WILL catch up.

[DirtbikePilot]

Thanks Eric for those pictures! Those are great. And thanks to binnie too for that link.

I worry that by the time that india catches up to the rest of the world in terms of manufacturing, they will catch up in the products they make too, ie changfa-type high-speed engines. That will be sad.

[RMPS]

Thanks for posting those!

 I'd love to see photos of an Indian foundry. Guys in sandals pouring molten iron

Here are a few...


FOUNDRY POURING MOLTON METAL
Here they are pouring the Petter Type cylinders.


FRESHLY POURED
Freshly poured Petter cylinder - this thing was still smoking.


FOUNDRY METAL CRUSHER PLANT
This is where they break the scrap iron down to small enough pieces to fit in the copula furnace.

[rmchambers]

Wow, I guess with labor like this there's no way the US is ever going to get any decent manufacturing jobs back.

[wrightkiller]

 And we think we have sand problems !!!

[Tom]

I see I'm not the only one who likes to wear sandals while working.

[hotater]

I think it would be fun to print up a big bunch of those pictures with the caption
LET'S KEEP PERSPECTIVE"  and put them on every windshield in the OSHA parking lot.

[mobile_bob]

boy now we know why there are voids in some of the castings
actually under the conditions that they work under it is amazing that the quality is
as good as it is.

thanks for the pics

bob g