[Fot] Steel Flywheel Manufacturing-Progress Report

[N197TR4 at cs.com]

FoT,

Being around manufacturing for over 40 years promotes a casual attitude when 
the parts are for tractors. Especially somebody else's tractors.  

The attitude changes when the chips are flying for a car, particularly when 
it's your car.  Today, I caught the new TR3/TR4 steel flywheels Work In Process 
on the production floor.

Even with the sophistication of CNC machining there are several operations 
that are required. The basic turning operations are done. A milling operation 
for removing material (out where it counts most) is in process today.

By next week the drill and tap operations should be complete and ready for 
final inspection.  Shipping should follow shortly. 

(BTW, With a little nudging from Dean Tetterton, we got the big chamfer in 
the center of the flywheel for ease of transmission assembly...this feature has 
been missing on some other steel flywheels and I had not noticed)

Special thanks to our 'Engineering Department'....Sean Alexander. He saved us 
several hundred dollars in the avoidance of outsourced engineering costs.

Now I can take that Lightened OEM flywheel out of the AMBRO project and give 
the AMBRO what it deserves. Debut this year?

Joe A





 

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