Daiwa UK Factory Tour

hi welcome today were sports we've been making fishing rods here since 1977 were based in Russia just don't say Glasgow my name's Steve McKinley and today we're going to show you how it's done every road that we make here at divert Sports uses carbon fiber the material is pre impregnated with heat reactive resins that's for the name beep reg comes from in this department here in the cutting room we've cut the part owns the rod lands the reinforcements and all the elements that make up a fuel rod section and we're gonna show you that in detail now he's one of the details of describing earlier the cutting of the carbon patterns we have a variety of a tedious here to behind for the reinforcements that go with either end of the rods but the longer part has been cut here by tom measured manually and cut manually eight layers ten layers at a time every single rod to be make is completely different they contain a whole variety of different patterns and a multitude of different materials all the patterns were etched every Royd are actually presented in these drawings by the engineering department and all the cutting is done manually to the millimeter novanet the next stage we're taking all the fathoms and component parts of material that we've cuts and we're tacking them together in advance of being a tear to the mandles which form the shape of the rod section so what we're doing now is actually attacking the assembled patterns to the mandrel using the small hot iron to activate a seam of resin allowing us to Alain the carbon pattern onto the centre of the mandrel and it's from here the material is rolled around the mandrel and what starts to occur is the shape of a rod section that is more familiar to us although spasms that have been cut up intact for the mandrel and have now been rolled all the carbon patterns have now been ruled on to the Mandal but before we cure it we actually have to secure it into place using heat resistant tape and that is applied at precision with this machine here it creates a continuous helix of overlapping tape securing the court onto the mandrel during the curing process and here's a spill of the tape and we actually used to Wayne round the clock before the projections I say put into the oven for curing no tipped into place the Mandelson carbon hung up on these racks put in the ovens 140 degrees which is computer-controlled prior to the next stage that is cooling that the sanctions have been few of them too to remove the mandible from the form the blank and that's what this pneumatic filling Adam is doing it's gripping the mandrel and the steel Chuck is pushing the key attraction of the of the metal component now then we've got a cured broad section we have to prepare it for decorating painting thread wrapping and varnishing and that's what's happened here we drained sand and cut to length all the sections that need to finish rods know that the sanctions have been smooth sanded and prepared for painting they come to the paint shop where we apply quartz or several quarts of clear or pigment paints this is done in a controlled environment and as you can see this has to be done smoothly and evenly to get the best finish know that the rods have been painted and decorated with the screen printing we actually have to go through handle assembly all the component parts of the zento specification and all the design process of the components and the handle parts are actually done through drawings prepared by the engineering department one of the next processes is putting guides on the rods what we're doing here is actually marking up the sections under possessions for each of those guides all the components but assured along with the key point document to the third wrapping team which you'll see next so now that the rods have been decorated painted and been through handle assembly one of the final processes as they're dropping and this is what we're doing here applying the guides to the roids worth thread all done manually all the laymen and judgment done by eye now that you've seen the gauge that I wrapped onto the rods we actually have to varnish them into place what we're doing here is actually machine called an ultraviolet dryer a UV dryer the trade is varnished initially with a non Deportes fastest to Horia chamber and then to UV chamber with its part and then we apply a final second quartz which gives a high bill finish everything all the way through the production process tips and butts are made separate from each other and this is where the batch is actually meet for the first time there's still a lot of finishing required before the products that are finally banked and put to stock accepts of matched with butts we also take into consideration the clearance or inspected rides and we check for little marks blemishes and small parts that need may be cleaned up everything is 100% checked by QE before packing and quitting to stop here we have a batch of carp rods that are ready to go to stock one finishing touch that we do apply to all the carp rod says that inspected into these bagged anthony's so that the exact same on the bank straight from the bag are you really

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Keywords: Daiwa, Poles, Carp Rods, Carp Reels, Match Rods, Factory Tour

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Length: 6min 44sec (404 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 11 2013