Ferrari Mailing List: Re: GT4 just sold!

[Erik Nielsen (judge4re]

They (Mattel) still have an office over in El Segundo down the street from Raytheon (the old Hughes site). The LA Kings practice facility is a couple of blocks east of there. 

On Oct 29, 2021, at 6:19 PM, Douglas Anderson <dnt [at] dock.net> wrote:



I remember blowing colored lacquer dust out of my nose  hours  after paint was sprayed.  

Ayep

 

Way before electro static painting.

 

GM used a water wash back water fall sorta thing as did McCulloch chain saws.

 

Paint guns - Ransburg – in 1966 I made up an ad for them.  Not used.  Picture of a gun and titled “At $5,000 this is the cheapest paint gun on the market.”  Or something like that.

 

But they gave me tour of their place then located in Vernon (?), CA.  They showed one of the projects for the toy company Mattel whose tall office was located, at that time, down by LAX. 

 

The project?  Little tiny cars Mattel called Hot Wheels.  Ransburg would hang the little castings on a thing called a Christmas Tree about a foot tall with about 50 to 100 cars on it.  I thought how cute.  Direct competition for UK’s Meccano Dinky Toys.  It might work. Their current trial was a batch of purple pickups.

 

The one thing they were really excited about was being able to paint office furniture, in THE office (over the weekend) with NO overspray.  Saw a movie about it.  Cool.  Paint came out like a fog and simple wrapped around, down, and in any metal target.

 

They were also working on painting wooden gunstocks but had to develop an electrical field solution to first paint the wood.  Don’t know how that turned out.

 

But Hot Wheels sure did.  To bad I did ask for any culls or goof ups.  Ah well.

 

Doug

 

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