At 9:46 That big press has to be moved inside and then unloaded. I wonder how many cranes that's going to take. Heavy duty trailers going to make it through the doorways? At 10:45 reminds me of playing Tic-Tac-Toe. At 18:55 crane installing the high voltage switch. Power, big time! Thanks, Randy for the great video and closeups.
Great job, Randy! That new parking lot is enormous. Could the plan be to consolidate all the workers' vehicles in one spot with buses rotating through all shift. It would make sense to clear the random parking all over the site for safety and efficiency.
@@andrewjameson5918 It may look chaotic, but it's actually very well coordinated. The "mess" comes from different companies working on different phases in the same area. It looks messy, but is just how they are pushing overlapping phases. It's why they can do something like this in a quarter or less time than a standard build. The hidden precision is revealed by the lack of industrial accidents on the site.
@@clintatk I agree there is hidden precision there, but it is also pretty obvious that the level of coordination from the top is more limited to “big picture.” One easy example is the way that the ironworkers don’t do partial handovers of the structure. The one that completely baffles me though continues to be the roofing contractor or lack thereof.
@@patrickkenny2077 The roofing has mystified me too, but there appears to be ongoing roof penetrations happening such as the installation of interior walls through the roof. They also seem to be keeping lots of options open as they continually modify the plans.
@@andrewjameson5918 I have been watching this construction from the beginning as well as Giga Berlin. I have always felt it was pretty well organized considering the grand scope of the thing. The coordination and management has been extraordinary. What can construction in the UK can you compare with this?
Have you heard anything about what is going on on the other side of the tollway? Or the area codenamed "grid line" at the southwest corner of the foundation?
@@zacadams7070 no sir. It was a mess in there this morning. Plant #2 went down, so I went next door to the Green Plant. Was trying to get out of there before 1 of the other 4 drivers beat me over there. So I didn't get to see the blueprints
That's unfortunate. So Musk is going to make his employees walk an extra 1,000 feet just so he can park new cars right next to the building? Doesn't surprise me though.
@@DavidJohnson-tv2nn You might want to wait and see the finished product before you criticize. One question I have is construction employees or plant employees?
Randy, good morning... those trailers hauling the stamping machines are wild.. Thank you for the views of them., I've been looking at the rocky areas around the switchyard and I think it's referred to as a french drain - in this case quite large. Cheers!
@@FutureAZA A number of reasons why they might do it that way, but it could just be space constraint in the east-west direction. One could be for the incoming primaries controlled by the utility, and one for each transformer, but you need a lot more information to know for sure.
They will need huge car parking areas once the plant is fully finished and in production. I believe the BMW Spartanburg plant has the highest number of employees in a single car plant in the USA, about 25,000. Of course not all are there at the same time with shift working but at shift changes there are double the number of employees cars as actually working at that time. Also parking is needed for finished cars, look at any car assembly plant worldwide on Google maps and see the cars parked up awaiting delivery.
Employee parking needs to be as close as possible to the factory. "F" the finished cars. They can be parked further out. Employees first! Without employees, there would be no finished cars.
@@DavidJohnson-tv2nn In my experience it's just the opposite. The employees walk a mile on their own time and the finished inventory is kept under close supervision. Completed car inventory is worth a lot of money and vulnerable to everything. Rank and file workers are a commodity that can be replaced easily unfortunately.
@@cratecruncher6687 That is exactly why I despise greedy, evil billionaires! Yet Musk has fans that love him. I don't understand why. Now, I hate Musk even more! The only reason I watch these videos is that I love large construction projects.
Recall that originally, Fremont was supposed to have zero employees; everything was supposed to be done by robots. They sadly discovered that robots are not capable of handling fabric, which is what you need to make car seats. So they gave up on the idea of a "lights-out" factory, and I guess they decided that there are a few other tasks that are not worth automating. So, yes, there will be employees - if nothing else, for robot-maintenance. But there might not be all that many, grand total. BMW Spartanburg -- how old is that plant? If its from the 1980's it's only going to be lightly automated (compared to the 1930's Ford River Rouge plant) and even in the 2000's, robot arms were still pretty finicky and hard to deploy. Robot arms have improved a *lot* in the last few decades.
@@LinasVepstas Even Musk has admitted they went to far trying to automate in the Nevada factory. They spent way too much and had inferior quality on some thigs a human can do much more easily. Frankly, I think the American worker is a pretty good deal in 2021 (as a result of competing with the third world for his job for 30 years!)
with that new parking lot, an additional workers onsite they are going to have to adjust start and stop time otherwise thare will be an even larger traffic jam.
A number of the existing workers are simply being moved to the central lot to free up more space on site for staging and sitework, so the problem shouldn’t get much worse... although I agree staggering things makes a lot of sense.
The area where they are dropping in internal concrete walls.... Does anyone know what that's for? Maybe a fire proof room(s) for storing flammables? Would love to hear other peoples ideas.
Definitely fireproof storing flammables, or containing something that can burn violently. Paint or maybe batteries? Notice how the walls extend above the roofline?
Another great video today, Randy! We can see that they have delivered the parapet attachments over on the east side of the stamping area, and they are sitting on the ground in front of where they will be installed. You can see them around 7:35. I believe this will add 24 to the total number of wall panels that need to be installed, but I'll wait to update that until the extensions get put into place and we can confirm that is the case! Wall panel installation was a little slower over the weekend, and there are only 7 more in the staging area waiting to be installed, so I'm unsure if they will shift focus to something else or if we will see a lot more wall panels delivered in the next 24 hours! They had been installing about 10 per day, so there are less panels stored than they typically complete in a day. Stamping wall panels update: Completed: 204 (78%) (+5 from last video) Remaining: 59 Total: 263 panels East side has 12 sections that each take 6 panels (72 panels) (61 completed) South side including angled corner has 9 sections that each take 8 panels (72 panels) (26 completed) West side has 17 sections that take 7 panels (119 panels) (117 completed)
Hi Zac. Interesting that they have installed a temporary wall in the northernmost panel location in the west wall, at 10:07. Wonder if they will do the same for the other opening in the middle of the wall. btw, I count 4 panels total to complete the west wall, getting 115 completed.
@@DessieDoolan I'm wondering if that is a temporary wall or if they decided to use that blue wall that will eventually be covered instead of putting in wall panels? I had the total at 115 but changed it to 117 today once I saw that temporary wall go in! It looks like it is framed out to be the same size as the panels on the eastern and southern walls that will have roll-up doors. I'll definitely be keeping a close eye on it to see what happens!
@@zacadams7070 Well a change of plans is a definite possibility. There is a panel with a small doorway that has been on site for 5 or 6 weeks now, but has just been moved to the south west corner along with all the other panels for some reason (maybe geo-piering starting again, or the last footings. That particular panel I had earmarked for where the temp wall is now, it can only go there because of the location of the recess to take the hanging lug on the back of the panel. You probably saw the panel arrive at 17:03. Interesting that the stamping plant panels are transported on edge, but the panels for the mysterious central bunker are transported on the flat. They seem to be around the same height. Might be highly re-inforced.
@@DessieDoolan Yeah we have definitely seen a lot of changes on this site! And that definitely makes sense, my eyes hadn't picked up on the bracket being place in the overhang so I'm glad you caught that! I'm hoping they will start on the last footing in the southwest section because I am pretty sure they put geopiers all the way up to the southern terminus of the foundation. And I had missed the wall coming! Hopefully the east wall will get finished today with the exception of the ones that will make up the parapet. And I noticed that also with the central bunker panels. I wonder if they are made by a different company that ships them differently? They are definitely not as long as the ones by the stamping pit, but I agree that they look to be the same height as the others. Highly reinforced is certainly a possibility also because this area had more than twice the amount of steel in other areas so I would suspect these wall panels will be pretty intense also
@@DessieDoolan Guessing those are so they can seal off the area temporarily, but still allow for truck access. I would still expect the precast panels to eventually be installed.
Wow what a traffic jam near the end, I can't believe how many vehicles are driving around the site, it looks like a main road is going through the center of the site
I was actually looking for them, but couldn't find them anywhere. I wonder if they were taken inside of the stamping machine structure on the south end? I'm definitely keeping an eye out for clues!
New Robots in the Giga Press Area! Suggests more casting machines to go in soon. Think about front and back castings and 600 out of 1000 robot reduction. I gotta think this place is going to crank out closer to 1M annual production rather than 500k originally expected.
Seems to be a lot of standing water puddles inside the covered structures ... roof panels not yet sealed? ... blowing rain?? ... hosing things down to control the pace of curing???
The roof panels leak like a colander right now. During a light rain last week JoeT zoomed in revealing quite a shower under those steel roof panels. I'm not sure what they will seal the roof with but there's certainly another step left to do.
At 10:06, is that blue wall added to the sides of the doorway on the concrete structure the same as the other blue walls? I’d like to get a closeup someday so the logo can be read. The openings in this west wall look like a tight squeeze for the new stamping presses. I wonder if they plan to back the semi trailers into the building? BTW there is more blue wall inside on the north wall.
Is the blue partition wall in the stamping area temporary only? The crane rails go through it without end stops by the wall. The wall of course prevents the crane from moving the whole length of the press shop. Is the wall temporary to keep dust out or prying eyes from seeing the presses assembly?
It wouldn't be the first time a temporary wall was put up like that for various reasons. Without a crane installed on the south side of the wall there would not be a reason for rail stops that would be seen from the drone's view, there may well be stops on the north side.
If the wall is temporary, they went through a lot of trouble putting up a massive steel structure to support the wall. I noticed crane movement along the rails was blocked a few weeks ago, when that began erecting steel to support the wall. Mentioned it in the comments. So far, it remains a mystery. Which we may never know the answer. Because as soon as the exterior wall panels are placed, we can't see inside.
@@DavidJohnson-tv2nn Well, look, the wall is 75 feet tall. You can't use flimsy sheet-metal studs for the entire height; they needed something more substantial to frame it out. The "massive steel structure" wasn't all that massive, just tall, and it was good-n-rusty to begin with and was never painted. Cheap construction. Nothing else in that place is cheap/shoddy.
Anybody has any idea what is the concrete bunker for? (at 14:25) From below grade to above roof? Is that a water tank? or something reaaally flamable will be in there?
Bast containment. In case of fire of volatile or explosive material the concrete walls will contain the blast and direct the pressure up through the roof which will be designed to give way.
7:00 We see two machines here -- the one on the left that corrugates then spindles the sheet steel into the pipe. I'm guessing that yellow one on the right trims the ends of the pipes generated by the first machine.
I think the yellow machine on the right rerolls the ends for the joint so the connecting bands can seal tighter for less leakage. The machine rerolls corrugations in the steel parrellel to the end of the pipe back about afoot from the ends. Then I think the rack to the far right that has a tarp under it is where they put some kind of sealant at the joint that the connecting bands can seal into. The pipe machine on the left roof the corrugations in and folds the edges for a folded and crimped joint at the edge of the rolls.
Did I get it right? It's not the same paint shop (world's most advanced environmental friendly) Giga Berlin is getting? So North America is SOL for those fancy painted tesla Europe will be getting? Why? Why? Why?
I believe they will be the same! Berlin is getting a paint shop from Geico, a subsidiary of Taikisha, and this paint shop is from TKS Industrial, which is the US subsidiary of Taikisha!
@@zacadams7070 I thought the Berlin paint operation is an Italian company which has phenomenal abilities to create a color shifting process, which Elon mentioned the time he was interviewed while standing on the road in Berlin with a black Model X behind him accompanied by a Secret Service looking dude in sunglasses. The point is -Italian super company with futuristic capabilities which doesn't paint with dirt under the paint like in Fremont - ala Sandy Munro review.
@@JamesWoodTN Both TKS Industrial (Giga Texas) and Geico Taikisha (Giga Berlin) are subsidiaries of Taikisha, the global parent company. TKS Industrial is based out of the US and Geico is based out of Italy. If you check out the TKS Industrial website, they actually link to youtube videos posted on the Geico Taikisha site, so I assume it is the same technology, just under a different company name
@@zacadams7070 I hope it the same because I already started to look at how much more it would cost to get Model Y from Germany ... Or just get cyber track - no paint issues whatsoever :)
At 9:46 That big press has to be moved inside and then unloaded. I wonder how many cranes that's going to take. Heavy duty trailers going to make it through the doorways?
At 10:45 reminds me of playing Tic-Tac-Toe.
At 18:55 crane installing the high voltage switch. Power, big time!
Thanks, Randy for the great video and closeups.
Great job, Randy! That new parking lot is enormous. Could the plan be to consolidate all the workers' vehicles in one spot with buses rotating through all shift. It would make sense to clear the random parking all over the site for safety and efficiency.
I am from the UK and the site is a mess but then I need to understand that things are done differently in the USA.
@@andrewjameson5918 It may look chaotic, but it's actually very well coordinated. The "mess" comes from different companies working on different phases in the same area. It looks messy, but is just how they are pushing overlapping phases. It's why they can do something like this in a quarter or less time than a standard build. The hidden precision is revealed by the lack of industrial accidents on the site.
@@clintatk I agree there is hidden precision there, but it is also pretty obvious that the level of coordination from the top is more limited to “big picture.” One easy example is the way that the ironworkers don’t do partial handovers of the structure. The one that completely baffles me though continues to be the roofing contractor or lack thereof.
@@patrickkenny2077 The roofing has mystified me too, but there appears to be ongoing roof penetrations happening such as the installation of interior walls through the roof. They also seem to be keeping lots of options open as they continually modify the plans.
@@andrewjameson5918 I have been watching this construction from the beginning as well as Giga Berlin. I have always felt it was pretty well organized considering the grand scope of the thing. The coordination and management has been extraordinary. What can construction in the UK can you compare with this?
52-wheeler trucks... yep, that's a new one on me.
Just left from there, and it is new employee parking
Have you heard anything about what is going on on the other side of the tollway? Or the area codenamed "grid line" at the southwest corner of the foundation?
@@zacadams7070 no sir. It was a mess in there this morning. Plant #2 went down, so I went next door to the Green Plant. Was trying to get out of there before 1 of the other 4 drivers beat me over there. So I didn't get to see the blueprints
That's unfortunate. So Musk is going to make his employees walk an extra 1,000 feet just so he can park new cars right next to the building? Doesn't surprise me though.
@@DavidJohnson-tv2nn You might want to wait and see the finished product before you criticize. One question I have is construction employees or plant employees?
@@forwardthinkingtrucker Gotcha, not a problem! I always enjoy when you have updates so thought I'd ask!
Great review. Thx TEXLA Randy !
Thanks Randy!
You're welcome James!
Excellent breakdown.
Glad it helped!
Link to the paint mfg is great! It will be sad day when we can not see what is going on inside!
moving those stamping presses inside looks tricky
Randy, good morning... those trailers hauling the stamping machines are wild.. Thank you for the views of them., I've been looking at the rocky areas around the switchyard and I think it's referred to as a french drain - in this case quite large.
Cheers!
That was my reaction upon seeing the trailers as well James! Thanks for the info on the french drain!
I think those rows of wooden columns that you spoke about possibly being parking for employees could be covered parking,
of course with Solar Panels
18:30 The electrical substation is looking pretty spiffy with that new textured drainage ditch.
Any guess what the three buildings are?
@@FutureAZA Substation controls.
@@patrickkenny2077 3 them though? Interesting.
@@FutureAZA 3 phase power. My guess is the buildings may contain backup generators for critical loads like lighting.
@@FutureAZA A number of reasons why they might do it that way, but it could just be space constraint in the east-west direction. One could be for the incoming primaries controlled by the utility, and one for each transformer, but you need a lot more information to know for sure.
They will need huge car parking areas once the plant is fully finished and in production. I believe the BMW Spartanburg plant has the highest number of employees in a single car plant in the USA, about 25,000. Of course not all are there at the same time with shift working but at shift changes there are double the number of employees cars as actually working at that time.
Also parking is needed for finished cars, look at any car assembly plant worldwide on Google maps and see the cars parked up awaiting delivery.
Employee parking needs to be as close as possible to the factory. "F" the finished cars. They can be parked further out. Employees first! Without employees, there would be no finished cars.
@@DavidJohnson-tv2nn In my experience it's just the opposite. The employees walk a mile on their own time and the finished inventory is kept under close supervision. Completed car inventory is worth a lot of money and vulnerable to everything. Rank and file workers are a commodity that can be replaced easily unfortunately.
@@cratecruncher6687 That is exactly why I despise greedy, evil billionaires! Yet Musk has fans that love him. I don't understand why. Now, I hate Musk even more!
The only reason I watch these videos is that I love large construction projects.
Recall that originally, Fremont was supposed to have zero employees; everything was supposed to be done by robots. They sadly discovered that robots are not capable of handling fabric, which is what you need to make car seats. So they gave up on the idea of a "lights-out" factory, and I guess they decided that there are a few other tasks that are not worth automating. So, yes, there will be employees - if nothing else, for robot-maintenance. But there might not be all that many, grand total.
BMW Spartanburg -- how old is that plant? If its from the 1980's it's only going to be lightly automated (compared to the 1930's Ford River Rouge plant) and even in the 2000's, robot arms were still pretty finicky and hard to deploy. Robot arms have improved a *lot* in the last few decades.
@@LinasVepstas Even Musk has admitted they went to far trying to automate in the Nevada factory. They spent way too much and had inferior quality on some thigs a human can do much more easily. Frankly, I think the American worker is a pretty good deal in 2021 (as a result of competing with the third world for his job for 30 years!)
Thanks Randy!! My morning is complete👍🏾
Yes sir
The factory that subsidie paid for
They are getting very close to having production workers on site for training. Model Ys will be rolling out of the eastern building soon.
How close ?
Only after they get the sides of the building put up. Then all the robotics moved in and positioned.
Thought about something yesterday, Will Model Ys start being produced while Cybertruck assembly facility is still being constructed?
@@keithfranklin214 Yes, but not a lot of overlap- primarily interior work I would guess.
Sorry, but I have to disagree. They are no where close to production. They don't even have a completed roof.
with that new parking lot, an additional workers onsite they are going to have to adjust start and stop time otherwise thare will be an even larger traffic jam.
A number of the existing workers are simply being moved to the central lot to free up more space on site for staging and sitework, so the problem shouldn’t get much worse... although I agree staggering things makes a lot of sense.
Thanks Randy.
Can you show some of the area to the west of the highway? Seems like there has been more activity and they have been stirring up some dirt over there.
The area where they are dropping in internal concrete walls.... Does anyone know what that's for? Maybe a fire proof room(s) for storing flammables? Would love to hear other peoples ideas.
Definitely fireproof storing flammables, or containing something that can burn violently. Paint or maybe batteries? Notice how the walls extend above the roofline?
Another great video today, Randy! We can see that they have delivered the parapet attachments over on the east side of the stamping area, and they are sitting on the ground in front of where they will be installed. You can see them around 7:35. I believe this will add 24 to the total number of wall panels that need to be installed, but I'll wait to update that until the extensions get put into place and we can confirm that is the case! Wall panel installation was a little slower over the weekend, and there are only 7 more in the staging area waiting to be installed, so I'm unsure if they will shift focus to something else or if we will see a lot more wall panels delivered in the next 24 hours! They had been installing about 10 per day, so there are less panels stored than they typically complete in a day.
Stamping wall panels update:
Completed: 204 (78%) (+5 from last video)
Remaining: 59
Total: 263 panels
East side has 12 sections that each take 6 panels (72 panels) (61 completed)
South side including angled corner has 9 sections that each take 8 panels (72 panels) (26 completed)
West side has 17 sections that take 7 panels (119 panels) (117 completed)
Hi Zac. Interesting that they have installed a temporary wall in the northernmost panel location in the west wall, at 10:07. Wonder if they will do the same for the other opening in the middle of the wall. btw, I count 4 panels total to complete the west wall, getting 115 completed.
@@DessieDoolan I'm wondering if that is a temporary wall or if they decided to use that blue wall that will eventually be covered instead of putting in wall panels? I had the total at 115 but changed it to 117 today once I saw that temporary wall go in! It looks like it is framed out to be the same size as the panels on the eastern and southern walls that will have roll-up doors. I'll definitely be keeping a close eye on it to see what happens!
@@zacadams7070 Well a change of plans is a definite possibility. There is a panel with a small doorway that has been on site for 5 or 6 weeks now, but has just been moved to the south west corner along with all the other panels for some reason (maybe geo-piering starting again, or the last footings. That particular panel I had earmarked for where the temp wall is now, it can only go there because of the location of the recess to take the hanging lug on the back of the panel. You probably saw the panel arrive at 17:03. Interesting that the stamping plant panels are transported on edge, but the panels for the mysterious central bunker are transported on the flat. They seem to be around the same height. Might be highly re-inforced.
@@DessieDoolan Yeah we have definitely seen a lot of changes on this site! And that definitely makes sense, my eyes hadn't picked up on the bracket being place in the overhang so I'm glad you caught that! I'm hoping they will start on the last footing in the southwest section because I am pretty sure they put geopiers all the way up to the southern terminus of the foundation. And I had missed the wall coming! Hopefully the east wall will get finished today with the exception of the ones that will make up the parapet. And I noticed that also with the central bunker panels. I wonder if they are made by a different company that ships them differently? They are definitely not as long as the ones by the stamping pit, but I agree that they look to be the same height as the others. Highly reinforced is certainly a possibility also because this area had more than twice the amount of steel in other areas so I would suspect these wall panels will be pretty intense also
@@DessieDoolan Guessing those are so they can seal off the area temporarily, but still allow for truck access. I would still expect the precast panels to eventually be installed.
Texas sized storm shelter?
Wow what a traffic jam near the end, I can't believe how many vehicles are driving around the site, it looks like a main road is going through the center of the site
I hope this is the end of shift or something otherwise this is a significant bottleneck slowing everyone’s work.
@@kubismatik2 It is, he films at the 5pm shift change!
@@kubismatik2 It is a significant bottleneck slowing everyone’s ability to LEAVE work and go home.
10:26 4 of the green tarp covered stacks have gone. Did anyone see where they went or what they were?
I was actually looking for them, but couldn't find them anywhere. I wonder if they were taken inside of the stamping machine structure on the south end? I'm definitely keeping an eye out for clues!
How did they do the NW perimeter grade beam so quickly? I didn't even notice it until today.
New Robots in the Giga Press Area! Suggests more casting machines to go in soon. Think about front and back castings and 600 out of 1000 robot reduction. I gotta think this place is going to crank out closer to 1M annual production rather than 500k originally expected.
Yeah. This whole Texas site will be producing a few millions. Maybe several when all the factories are built.
0:14 looks like they are missing a row of footers for the battery building. The very last row
I guess that will be part of the perimeter footings that are approaching from the south
They will have to finish with the three portable purge tanks and get that north edge cleared before they can finish digging that last row
@@dirkkruisheer ahhh yes. That could be it!
Seems to be a lot of standing water puddles inside the covered structures ... roof panels not yet sealed? ... blowing rain?? ... hosing things down to control the pace of curing???
The roof panels leak like a colander right now. During a light rain last week JoeT zoomed in revealing quite a shower under those steel roof panels. I'm not sure what they will seal the roof with but there's certainly another step left to do.
Yes, the roof still has steps remaining before leaking is no longer an issue.
Solar farm and parking in large lot
Hi Randy!
in April should be ready if they work in three shifts?!
Why work 3 shifts? We are already doing 12 hr days
@@AM-mq5yc So people can get some rest? ;)
isn't the paint system in Austin the same as the state-of-the-art system in Berlin?
I think so, yes
At 10:06, is that blue wall added to the sides of the doorway on the concrete structure the same as the other blue walls? I’d like to get a closeup someday so the logo can be read. The openings in this west wall look like a tight squeeze for the new stamping presses. I wonder if they plan to back the semi trailers into the building? BTW there is more blue wall inside on the north wall.
Logo is for American Gypsum.
Whats the projected finish date?
My guess is 8 months to 1 year.
#1001
There must be a lot of gravity in those stamping press modules
At 15,000 lbs. an axle, the trailer with 10 axles can haul a 150,000 lb. item.
19:47 How many parking spots in that lot? Guesstimate 1,300 so far.
My guess was 1,200, so we are in the same ballpark.
Is the blue partition wall in the stamping area temporary only? The crane rails go through it without end stops by the wall. The wall of course prevents the crane from moving the whole length of the press shop.
Is the wall temporary to keep dust out or prying eyes from seeing the presses assembly?
It wouldn't be the first time a temporary wall was put up like that for various reasons. Without a crane installed on the south side of the wall there would not be a reason for rail stops that would be seen from the drone's view, there may well be stops on the north side.
If the wall is temporary, they went through a lot of trouble putting up a massive steel structure to support the wall. I noticed crane movement along the rails was blocked a few weeks ago, when that began erecting steel to support the wall. Mentioned it in the comments. So far, it remains a mystery. Which we may never know the answer. Because as soon as the exterior wall panels are placed, we can't see inside.
@@DavidJohnson-tv2nn Well, look, the wall is 75 feet tall. You can't use flimsy sheet-metal studs for the entire height; they needed something more substantial to frame it out. The "massive steel structure" wasn't all that massive, just tall, and it was good-n-rusty to begin with and was never painted. Cheap construction. Nothing else in that place is cheap/shoddy.
Anybody has any idea what is the concrete bunker for? (at 14:25) From below grade to above roof? Is that a water tank? or something reaaally flamable will be in there?
Painting related material storage? Flammable stuff.
Bast containment. In case of fire of volatile or explosive material the concrete walls will contain the blast and direct the pressure up through the roof which will be designed to give way.
Ok, but what could be blasty enough in a car factory?
@@PaliVCiernom 10 or 20,000 gallons of thinner and other volatiles comes to mind.
@@PaliVCiernom Paint and solvents
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7:00 We see two machines here -- the one on the left that corrugates then spindles the sheet steel into the pipe. I'm guessing that yellow one on the right trims the ends of the pipes generated by the first machine.
I think that the yellow one makes a smaller dia. pipe.
I think the yellow machine on the right rerolls the ends for the joint so the connecting bands can seal tighter for less leakage. The machine rerolls corrugations in the steel parrellel to the end of the pipe back about afoot from the ends. Then I think the rack to the far right that has a tarp under it is where they put some kind of sealant at the joint that the connecting bands can seal into. The pipe machine on the left roof the corrugations in and folds the edges for a folded and crimped joint at the edge of the rolls.
Did I get it right? It's not the same paint shop (world's most advanced environmental friendly) Giga Berlin is getting? So North America is SOL for those fancy painted tesla Europe will be getting? Why? Why? Why?
I believe they will be the same! Berlin is getting a paint shop from Geico, a subsidiary of Taikisha, and this paint shop is from TKS Industrial, which is the US subsidiary of Taikisha!
@@zacadams7070 I thought the Berlin paint operation is an Italian company which has phenomenal abilities to create a color shifting process, which Elon mentioned the time he was interviewed while standing on the road in Berlin with a black Model X behind him accompanied by a Secret Service looking dude in sunglasses. The point is -Italian super company with futuristic capabilities which doesn't paint with dirt under the paint like in Fremont - ala Sandy Munro review.
@@JamesWoodTN Both TKS Industrial (Giga Texas) and Geico Taikisha (Giga Berlin) are subsidiaries of Taikisha, the global parent company. TKS Industrial is based out of the US and Geico is based out of Italy. If you check out the TKS Industrial website, they actually link to youtube videos posted on the Geico Taikisha site, so I assume it is the same technology, just under a different company name
@@zacadams7070 I hope it the same because I already started to look at how much more it would cost to get Model Y from Germany ... Or just get cyber track - no paint issues whatsoever :)
Just so you'll know. The Texas logo in the upper left of the screen is annoying.
Randy had a lot of his videos stolen early on from some sites that were using his videos without permission, so this has helped to cut down on that
Never mess with Texas pride.