VINDIC8R

I have watched a couple of BG assembly line videos and they have prompted me to ask, are C7s painted in colour "batches"? The videos allude that they run a couple hours (?), a full day (?) of one colour. I have seen steady streams of one colour.

In other words, my 2015 Crystal Red Tintcoat will not get built until the next batch of CRT C7s are run?

Thoughts?

LIStingray

The bodies are not painted on the cars.
The bodies are painted in batches as BG's spray booths are not dedicated to particular colors. For inventory purposes, it is likely easier to do batches, but I have seen different colors next to one another often there. If you are looking at Torch Red, White or Black, it might just be a function of them being the most popular color - now if you saw 5-10 Yellow cars in a row that would most likely be batching.

TEAShea

Are there any photos or videos of the BG painting process?

Thanks

aj98

Yes, the SOP is to paint in batches. Makes the process go faster, and it is more cost effective.

All body panels for one car are hung on racks, and the robots paint them all at the same time.

One-off colors do get into the line, but how/why that happens, they didn't tell us, and I didn't ask.

Theres a couple recent threads with links to a how its made: c7 corvette and another "birth of your car" that show/talk about the process.

C6FirstVette

Painting process…although shows C6 painting process has not changed much if at all

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=...18DF63A03FCE24

VINDIC8R

Thanks folks!!!

monicatomokc

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About half way through this video excerpt from the recent airing of "How It's Made: C7 Corvette Stingray," they show the painting process.

Calif Vetteman

I would like to know how the sprayers are cleaned when they change colors, and the feed lines. Are the lines disconnected from say the Red paint supply and reconnected to the Blue supply lines, which brings back the question, how are the spray nozzles cleaned, of any color contamination.
Just a thought.

OnPoint

Just the added enhanced texturizer for the C7.

Down8

Most modern auto paint processes/robots do not need to paint in batches. They do a quick spray out through their bells, which flushes the prior color before switching to the next. Super modern systems keep the lines right next to the robot 'wrist', so the spray out is measured in milliliters.

I suspect - especially given the large investment BG just got - they continue to posting in batches for some reason other than paint efficiency.

-bZj

Calif Vetteman

Thanks. Far cry from individual sprayers attached to individual hoses in the St. Louis plant.
In 56 or 57. Reminds me of the story of one of the painter in the spray booth that was color blind, but he kept the sprayers in an order so he know what color each would dispense. While he was on break the guys switched the sprayers on him and when he came back he started
on the next car, and his partner was on the other side, spraying a different color.
Of course eveyone was in on the joke and when news of a car coming down the line painted in two colors, got upstairs, management was not happy.

The car was eventually sent back and the worker that was color bliind was re-assigned to another position.

///ADMAN

RussM05

They paint approximately 10 cars at a time in the same color. If you think about it, this is pretty logical. There are 10 colors and they run about 150+ minus cars per day. So really doesn't make sense to change colors on every car so what they would do is paint approximately 10 cars one color then move onto the next so at the end of the day they have all the colors for that day. Obviously, there's not an even percent of colors on each day. For example the most popular colors are red black and white. So they would have more in those colors than other less popular.

owc6