Here you see a broach machine milling an engine block. The above photo is showing heads being milled on this same machine. Factory #36 is still operating this equipment in 2008. |
Department #1 rough case line. |
Factory #36 lunch room. |
Meeting area in the case department. |
The Hot Test area. |
The case department for the rough end. |
Gen IV crank department. |
The automatic stacker in the crib. |
A new line going in at factory #36. I did not go in here more than a handful of times so I do not recognize the area. Rollert 1960 |
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I ran a broach in the head department from 1996-2004. I heard that the broach was made by the Cincinatti Broach company in the 1950s. According to what I heard the broach was made to machine v-8 heads and when Buick bought the V-6 tooling back from in the 1970s they were retrofitted.
The broach uses a long series of carbide cutters to shave off metal. This process is quicker that milling but cruder. We used to have a .004 limit on flatness variation. The broach could run one hundred and fifty parts in a good hour. Chris Balog
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