Talk:Giga Press

LK Machinery presses
Another machine appears to have been built in parallel, already painted red+white but this time branded Impress DCC 6000 (ie. nominally uprated to ~6000 tf closing force). The machine was openly visible in the background during an industry event + factory tour of LK Machinery (parent company of Idra), on 2019-11-27 in Shenzhen:



Given the number of people that photographed the LK-built machine on the tour, the likelyhood of getting CC-BY-SA photograph for the article in the long run is increased!

The machine in the background is probably the second machine for Lathrop referenced by Elon Musk in the 2020-04-14 interview "One coming from Italy, and one coming from China." with potentially nine more to follow…, in which case the Idra machine ordered during the Dusseldorf trade-show for China might have gone somewhere else.

—Sladen (talk) 10:58, 15 May 2020 (UTC)

Korea


After three to Giga Shanghai, LK appear to have sold one DCC6000 to Korea, probably a Samsung supplier(?). —Sladen (talk) 20:25, 20 December 2020 (UTC)

Audi


—Sladen (talk) 15:32, 28 May 2020 (UTC)

Fremont
Permits for a casting building (project F20-0048) at Tesla Factory in Fremont:



—Sladen (talk) 15:36, 8 June 2020 (UTC)


 * Same permit "Presentation and Jenson Hughes documentation required at time of building permit for canopy." (2020-07-02 Fire Review) + "Permit documents to include print of ICC ESR 2823" (2020-06-26 Building Structural). —Sladen (talk) 13:49, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

Fremont photos
This should allow sourcing some images of the factory/Giga Press/DCM1 construction. —Sladen (talk) 19:18, 17 August 2020 (UTC)

Heavy Press Program
They may be the largest modern high-pressure die casting machines in the world. The Heavy Press Program build larger machines during the fifties. The largest Machine had almost double the power of the Giga Press — Preceding unsigned comment added by Klaus Leiss (talk • contribs) 09:33, 5 November 2020 (UTC)


 * The Heavy Press Program machines (eg. Alcoa 50,000 ton forging press) are huge forging machines for solid metal—not one-per-minute die-casting machines for liquid metal. Thank you for giving the heads up! —Sladen (talk) 20:28, 20 December 2020 (UTC)

More cites


Seems to be a reprint of one of the paper articles. —Sladen (talk) 21:54, 20 December 2020 (UTC)

Volvo is also switching to Mega casting. The press manufacturer has not been chosen yet. TGCP (talk) 12:51, 8 February 2022 (UTC)

Berlin images
Wolfpack:


 * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqMsr0DtIdw&t=6m (2020-12-19, side-on + top-down)

Tobias Lindh (CC-BY permission):


 * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUe57IovTME&t=9m4s (2020-11-28, side-on)
 * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owmxrm183hM&t=11m (2020-12-19, side-supports being unloaded)

—Sladen (talk) 15:42, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

Content removal
On 2021-05-02 the diffs show removal of ~30 kB of prose + citations (in Special:Diff/1004142010/1004987451 ), without prior discussion. I'm not normally one for performing large-scale reverts, but the result looks somewhat like a messy press release. Any suggestions for a way forward? , would you be able to share the thinking/intent? —Sladen (talk) 14:04, 5 February 2021 (UTC)


 * …would like to understand the thought processes/concerns before making more changes. For the moment have rescued ( Special:Diff/1004989816/1005032644 ) the bare minimum in the WP:LEAD:
 * mass, to reduce confusion between force (tonnes·force) and mass (tonnes);
 * specification used by Tesla, so that rating (tonnes·force) makes more sense again.
 * —Sladen (talk) 15:09, 6 February 2021 (UTC)


 * …have done a further minor tweak to restore the correct WP:LAYOUT. Please consider replying here if at all possible; as it would be great to try and better understand what was trying to be achieved.  —Sladen (talk) 00:16, 7 February 2021 (UTC)


 * In Wikipedia we try to ensure that adding/editing content has its sources and WP:CITING; for reference, but also to allow readers to find further detailed information themselves (a bibliography).
 * The seventeen edits removed content, and later removed citations. Nine edit summaries were identical "Removed superfluous minutia", and four further edit summaries were left blank—thus leaving little insight into the why-thinking for the benefit of other editors.
 * Page Views presently shows the article as having ~13,000 readers per month—those readers are not best served by leaving the article in its present state for extended periods of time. In the period until precise reasoning for the edits can be obtained, a WP:BRD looks like a sensible cause of action.  —Sladen (talk) 04:31, 7 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Further paging on User Talk:Tony Mach (in Special:Diff/1005410443 ). —Sladen (talk) 14:51, 7 February 2021 (UTC)

--- The casting process for the Giga Press system is described in detail in the Environmental Impact Report filing for the Giga Berlin factory:



…this cite was previously used in the article, but removed (in Special:Diff/1004982433 ) then replaced with (in Special:Diff/1004987451 ). —Sladen (talk) 15:47, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Special:Diff/1005420493 adds an overview based on reading p.83‒84 this cite. That could in-turn be re-summarised down to a shorter introduction paragraph, and there's a better description of the vacuum and degassing in two of the other trade-magazine cites.  Comparison is harder, as it requires something to compare to, and nobody else appears to have attempted die-casting at this size before.  —Sladen (talk) 20:09, 7 February 2021 (UTC)

--- The article was tagged (ie. "…, sensationalism"). There appear to be two quotes that might be heading in the direction of being sensational: one from Jérôme Guillen (unibody casting) and one from Elon Musk (producing 1:1 cars like model cars). Both of these are used and presented as direct quotes to (hopefully) aid the reader in obtaining a high-level understanding. The article text itself appears to be boringly neutral, and correspondingly cited. : which *precise* words, or sentences are/were of concern in placing the template? —Sladen (talk) 20:33, 7 February 2021 (UTC)


 * 2+ weeks later. Still no insight/feedback into the precise details.  —Sladen (talk) 14:16, 23 February 2021 (UTC)

Texas - 2021-02
", all major components of the first Giga Press at the Austin site has been craned into place."



(Cacheing here until the recent edits can be clarified) —Sladen (talk) 14:08, 5 February 2021 (UTC)

Close up footage


—Sladen (talk) 16:42, 5 February 2021 (UTC)

2018
Found another article; …from 2018(!). Seems the "Giga Press" terminology not yet being used; but lots of juicy technical details:



—Sladen (talk) 13:28, 8 April 2021 (UTC)