Shuguang Tube Factory pix

[Jon Silberman]

Very cool. Give the site plenty of time to load, it's slow (tons of pics). Ignore the multiple question marks (it would be Chinese if our computers were set up for it).

http://www.ks-hifi.com/artical/shuguang/shuguang.htm

[Hipster Dofus]

Jon

Thats cool. Very interesting to say the least. I did see a few un-safe things, but then that is not in the US. I have been in lots of manufaturing plants of all types, but never a tube plant.

Very diff from say Lockheed Martin, or some of the other Military electroncs builders. But tubes are not microcips.....

I have wondered how the glass gets built around the guts!

[Kiwi]

Interesting. Thanks for posting the link!

The yellow cage in the factory was a little odd. Testing area?

Kiwi

[TheAmpNerd]

Yeah,

With all that hand work, you'd wonder how they even
made so many of the chinese tubes ya know?

Can you imagine 1000 of those folks sitting down
to make tubes and earn enough money for a
bowl of rice and veggies....

...And they probably earn enough to bring home
some for family too : )

[TheAmpNerd]

Yeah,

With all that hand work, you'd wonder how they even
made so many of the chinese tubes ya know?

Can you imagine 1000 of those folks sitting down
to make tubes and earn enough money for a
bowl of rice and veggies....

...And they probably earn enough to bring home
some for family too : )

Yellow cage? Probably keep tooling and test
stuff, supplies and other stuff you would you
on the floor that you don't wany to walk off.

Probably includes sample finished goods too.

[tybone]

Holy Jumpin'!!

State of the art 'eh?

[aeolian]

Originally posted by tybone
Holy Jumpin'!!

State of the art 'eh?
For an offshore factory, that's pretty good. I've seen domestic CRT plants that looked like dirt floor steel mills inside. Messing with glass is a dirty operation.

Tried to run the page though BabelFish but it was too slow and timed out.

Usually those yellow cages are where they lock up the expensive stuff. That looked like it had test equipment inside though. Loved the picture where the operator was doing something with her tweezers palmed like a country player would do with a pick. In these plants, the operators most valuable possesion is a good pair of tweezers. They carry their own everywhere and won't lend them to anybody for fear of the ends getting bent or blunted.