Time for New Shoes

Wow, what a morning. I actually painted cars today. I work at the paint shop at BAP, but until today I had never actually seen the painting process. Believe it or not, I can't get into specifics about the process. I can actually lose my job for divulging "trade secrets". Security is pretty tight there, and you're not even supposed to take cameras into the plant. Try to tell your 3500 employees not to carry cell phones. Good luck! They're really paranoid about information leaking to competitors.

The process is pretty amazing. Without getting too much into specifics, the majority of the painting is done by robots. It's pretty cool to watch them work. I was actually doing touch-up work inside the doors. The robotics system is new to the plant, and they're still trying to iron out the kinks, so they have sprayers hitting the spots the robots miss. It was difficult to get the hang of it at first, but after the first couple hours I picked it up okay. I've worked in nearly every area in the Paint Shop now. The only casualty of my new experience was my old shoes are pretty much destroyed. Oh well, it was time for new ones anyway....