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Today I held a new gear from an F1 gearbox (remarkably light) and watched a Bugati Veyron gearbox casing being made.
Not sure I can say where this was but it's a hugely impressive facility.
I ve worked at a similar facility, i will tell anyone for the right price !
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Leamington Spa by any chance ?
Nice one CR500! I've been to a couple of places that do serious machining work but not on the same scale, fascinating.
No pics I'm afraid - they stuck a sticker over the camera on my phone
ricardo
I've machined bits of F1 cars, nuclear submarines, satellites, all sorts really.
indeed pj. 🙂
My brother used to work at Ricardo; they sent him to Detroit and gave him the job of launching a civvy version of Humvee, to be called Hummer 2. I tell you this with a mixture of pride and embarrassment!
It could have been worse, it could have been the Nissan Juke.
I've held and photographed a fully engineered replica Trident warhead, a little more costly and powerful than a puny F1 car. 🙂
The nasty bits were obviously dummy but the rest of it was for real.
Interestingly as long as we photographed it without a scale in the photo it was unclassified.
Did I bump into you at FOD last Friday Sharkbait?
Brother in law quite often used to turn up with interesting Nascar bits and pieces shock pistons etc. 😀
He's in F1 now, don't see any of those bits, still waiting for my Oris watch 👿
No LC - I was just down from Chester collecting some work from Ricardo..... it's the only time I ever go to the midlands really.
Ah ok, it was another Ricardo stwer then. 😀