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Old 12-08-2023, 03:33 AM
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Most frequent would be fenders/hoods that get painted wrong (either wrong color or two tone wrong)
You guys have heard the story of the C3 Corvette painted blue on one side and green on the other??....
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You guys have heard the story of the C3 Corvette painted blue on one side and green on the other??....
No. Due tell please!!
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In 2019 I was at a St Louis Chapter NCRS judging meet. Three or four Corvette plant retirees were telling stories.

Corvette bodies were painted with a painter on each side, they sprayed from the bottom up meeting top center.

Story goes that a painter was color blind, but he knew which paint tank had which color, so no problem switching to the appropriate color as bodies came through.
Well, while he was on break the tanks were refilled, but the color order was mixed up, so after break he connected to the wrong tank resulting in a body green on one side and blue on the other. - Bill W
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Oh my.

Seems like the kind of thing one would take into consideration when passing out job assignments.

But - far be it from me to judge.

I had a little lady who put the LH fender grille trim on. The only problem was every 12th job was a military vehicle (aka "CUCV") and she was supposed to put the battery in on those.

She was so tiny, couldn't heft the battery and couldn't get it up over the fender. Guess who put every one of those batteries in?

I don't know why we didn't move her to a different job. I didn't even think of it until just a couple months ago when telling this story.

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When I first started working at the Ford plant, workers would put cans of soup and such just inside the paint bake ovens to warm for lunch. The seasoned workers knew where to put the cans so they didn't overheat....see where this is going ?? One day a car came down the final checkout line I was working that day and the entire side looked like it had projectile vomit on it. Yep, a newbie put a can of chili too close to the heat and it exploded. Word went around the plant very quickly that the practice was to be stopped immediately. As most things like that go, the workers started sneaking cans back in after a couple months.
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When I first started working at the Ford plant, workers would put cans of soup and such just inside the paint bake ovens to warm for lunch. The seasoned workers knew where to put the cans so they didn't overheat....see where this is going ?? One day a car came down the final checkout line I was working that day and the entire side looked like it had projectile vomit on it. Yep, a newbie put a can of chili too close to the heat and it exploded. Word went around the plant very quickly that the practice was to be stopped immediately. As most things like that go, the workers started sneaking cans back in after a couple months.
Yep; we'd warm our pasties in the paint oven.

We also used K05 block heaters to heat our coffee/tea water.

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