The Birth of a Phaeton - Part 5

8/14 - 9/1

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Three days and counting.  We've gone from a bare chassis to this rolling wreck coming out of the scaffold area.  It still doesn't look like much but wait until the next step.  Instant transformation.

As I've said before, much of this assembly plant runs on JIT principles, the next two stations being really good examples.

Slides are assembled in an area adjacent to the assembly line.

Bed Slide

Kitchen and Living Room

Other half of Living Room and Dining area

The other half of the bedroom

The 36GH uses a different slide mechanism arrangement than the 40 ft Phaetons.  The front slides are HWH hydraulics and the rear slides are Schwintec electric.  Very different than its 40 ft cousins which I believe use three different slide mechanisms to move the four slides.

First slide in - the kitchen/living room

Passenger side looking in.  Notice the refrigerator siting there.

Passenger side bedroom slide

Bed slide

Passenger side slide

Front of coach

Looking forward from about the TV cabinet

Front Cap installation

At the end of day three, it was pretty much a motorhome.  Slides were in and operating, rear cap was on, front cap was on but missing the generator cover, all the interior cabinets were in, and so on.  Only thing missing were the compartment doors and the generator cap.