"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
11/22/2019 at 13:58 • Filed to: british build quality, Quality Control, #videos

This is “The Quality Connection” - an internal late ‘70s British Leyland “scare ‘em straight” film for internal management use.

For any of you who haven’t seen a lot of factory process and part creation type things or been on a factory floor, this will be informative on a darker plane than How It’s Made. “How a Lemon is Made”, you could say. Lots of jobbing British industry actors in this one, including a young David Suchet.

NSFW warning for a blink and you miss it of a worker studying boobies instead of his job.

DISCUSSION (13)

I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
11/22/2019 at 14:41

I swear to god if that narrator says specification one more time...

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker
11/22/2019 at 14:51

“Specification”

Kinja'd!!!

DipodomysDeserti > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
11/22/2019 at 15:49

I like how he assumes the guy wasn’t drunk because of the time of day. Bro, you’re in UK...

facw > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
11/22/2019 at 16:48

Wait, he just gave his hat to the police officer and left?

facw > facw
11/22/2019 at 16:50

The dealership guy abandoned his hat too! Is this a theme?

facw > facw
11/22/2019 at 17:10

I see, it wasn’t actually his hat

Jayvincent > I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker
11/22/2019 at 19:26

I was hoping for an Al-you-min-e-um shout out, but no such luck. We did get a “bloody believe it” and “cheers” as consolation

Jayvincent > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
11/22/2019 at 19:26

I was a “M ethods Engineer” briefly some several decades ago... good times

Urambo Tauro > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
11/22/2019 at 21:52

Hold up- is it just some trick of the lighting here , or did th ey actually use nickel-copper for brake lines? (12:54ff in the video)

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Urambo Tauro
11/25/2019 at 10:14

My guess is either b-roll or some kind of copper based powder or thin plate process. I’m used to seeing brake lines that look a little green on the outside like the line looks when he’s forming it, after heat treating, and if that’s a copper based coating...

The brits used to have a dull-white/gray powder-applied zinc coating for bolts that would likely have looked shiny going on, so baked on metal powder process was definitely a thing at the time.

Urambo Tauro > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
11/25/2019 at 12:50

I don ’t have enough European car experience to speak from, but I’ ve read that nicke l -copper/cunifer/kunifer was relatively common among some Euro cars . And FWIW, the video does mention the production of “brake components for the whole of th e British motor industry”. So maybe it became something of a standard that just never caught on in the US, hence why it caught my attention here .

The only Euro car I’ve spent much time with has been my brother’s Saab, which has (original, I assume) s teel lines wit h a green co at ing that has held up astonishingly well. T he coating appears to be so me kind of epoxy, which according to this article was used by Volvo before they moved to nickel-copper.

Prior to 1971, Volvo had used terne coated steel tubing. In 1971 they changed the coating to zinc. The zinc coating was eventually supplemented by epoxy, and in 1976, Volvo adopted copper-nickel alloy C70600.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Urambo Tauro
11/25/2019 at 12:54

I have a Jag rear axle that IIRC had some steel line connected to it, not cunifer. That axle was made in the 80s. I’ve also stripped some Range Rover brake stuff, and that was still ordinary steel in ‘95. So, it could be that some premium BL brands were using Cunifer (year checks out) , but I don’t have any reason to believe it was that widespread.

Urambo Tauro > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
11/25/2019 at 12:56

Yeah it’s probably specific to certain makes during a certain period.