Each main frame rail is fully welded in a single pass. Every other bench on the market is stitch welded to avoid warping or cracking the low quality steel.... Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
This is the actual pull post that straightens out accident damage. Every post is made start to finish in the factory and quality tested before shipping. Image Unavailable, Please Login
This is the actual jig post that takes most of the stress during pulling. Most manufactures bragged how theres is solid steel and how strong it is. The problem is the pulling power of the pull post is stronger then the jig post. So if you bend a post you have no way of knowing so every car after that is pulled to an incorrect tolerance. Carbench made a cast hollow post that intentionally breaks if the pulling force is exceeded. I love the engineering Carbench puts into every single part of the fixture. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
This is a completed main frame of the jib bench. Lorenzo and his wife own Carbench together and proudly knew every design feature start to finish. In this photo Lorenzo is showing me that you can see all the machining marks and welds on the finished product. They dip every bench is a Galvanized bath to prevent rusting. Every other manufacture covers there steel in paint to hide all the imperfections. Image Unavailable, Please Login
This shows the original Ferrari 360 modena front frame structure jigged to the bench. When Ferrari originally built the 360 chassis with Alcoa it was solid Aluminum. Carbench had to reverse engineer the chassis and section is to make it repairable in the future. Image Unavailable, Please Login
This is a completed jig bench in there training center. The cars under the covers are all brand new Ferrari and Lamborghini chassis there teaching OEM repair classes on and writing repair manuals. I got to meet the engineering that writes Ferraris manuals and bring up a few issues I had over the years. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Pisa was near by so I stopped by to visit the leaning tower. It really made my jaw drop when you walk around the city wall and see the tower in the distance. Look at how worn out the marble stairs are. From the top you can see the mountains in the background that they pulled all the absolute white marble from. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
I had to make a pit stop at Ferrari when driving north. Driving on the Autostrada is similar to the autobahn but you have a NYC taxi driver tailgating you beeping and brighting you no matter how fast you drive in a tiny economy car. This is my 4th time doing the owners tour and it blows my mind every single time. It's has to be on your bucket list if your a Ferrari owner. Don't worry even if your wife doesn't care about cars they will love the tour and find it interesting. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Ferrari museum tour -Enzo Ferraris office -First Ferrari engine -"primo Ferrari" -Wire frame used to beat the 250 GTO panels on. -Earlier wood styling buck -LM prototype body -599/612 wind tunnel scale prototypes Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Juan Manuel Fangios D50 and Sennas race cars on display Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Visting USI Italia spray boothes in Verona. We got to see our actual booth packed up and ready for its ocean trip. The factory is almost fully automated down to even the warehouse is run by compute. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Our actual spray booth packed up for shipping. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Even the burners are built in house and tested before shipping. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
We went with the Master series booth with a 3 sided mixing room attached to the side. This will allow the painter to mix paint and step right into the booth avoiding contamination. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Are you doing a full downdraft? Or semi? Platform or in concrete? Ironically, we have a new custom booth, clean room system arriving next week too. We are installing ours. Big erector set.
Full downdraft heated. Platform above ground with a basement. Very nice congrats, what did you end up going with? Exactly, all just bolts together with basic hand tools.
Congrats on the expansion and new equipment!! Great to see Ours is totally custom. It's 2 identical booths connected by a vestibule clean room. The booths are down draft tables and positive pressure (auto balancing). LED lighting. No heat as we oven bake our parts. I designed the concept and found a great company to built it. I don't want to post the manufacturer or very specific details given this is a very custom system for small parts. I have a thread going in the general section and will post some general photos as we erect the system.
Thank you I've been planning and saving for 4 years now, nice/scary to pull the trigger finally. Thats nice the company auto body tool mart uses to make there booths colmet? is based in the US and will make anything you can think of. Will check out the thread in the general forum and congrats!
We paired our frame jig with a digital measuring system. The contact evolution from Carbench allows us to measure pre and post accident chassis data to make sure its brought back to factory tolerances. What I really liked about it was the 5 axis travel to measure difficult to reach areas. This will guarantee maximum precision and extremely low tolerances on every single check point of the frame and body. Image Unavailable, Please Login
I spoke with Colmet but most of these companies insist on going thru a distributor and I'm not wired for that. I didn't want to explain it all to a distributor who then explained it (wrong) to the manufacture. So, I found a premier company that would work directly with me.
I'm the same way can't blame you. The best advice I can give anyone buying a spray booth. Contact your file marshals office to get a blessing before you install anything. And registered with the NY DEC as an emissions producer even if you feel its on a hobby level. Contact your local paint supplier and sign up for a 6H certification class. I had to learn the hard way and it wasn't fun or cheap.
I had a hard time deciding on what welding system to go with. I narrowed it down to Cebora and Weilander and Schill based off there OEM approvals. Both companies had booths at SEMA show in vegas so I figured it would be a good place to try them out in person. With more cars switching over from traditional steel to High strength steel, aluminum, Boron, etc I wanted a welder that was modern and easy to use. In a production shop having an easy to use system that consistently produces factory production assembly line quality welds is very important. We ended up going with a Cebora Techna smart plus resistance spot welder. It can recognize what material and thickness is being used and self adjust giving you a perfect weld. For mig welding we picked the Cebora Jaquar welder that can do steel and aluminum. Both are OEM approved by Ferrari, Porsche, Mercedes, BMW, and Bentley to name a few. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
If anyone gets a chance I highly recommend going to the SEMA show. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
