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I know there’s been a lot of speculation about the 9k Ton press being in transit. The giant unfinished area in the casting area is being prepped for a new press. Very likely this is the foundation for the new press. They usually let the concrete cure for a few weeks. That puts installation 3-4 weeks out. So Mid-late December.

Tesla Cybertruck 9,000 Ton GigaPress Foundation Prepwork -- Possibly Shown in Drone Shots 1668787780360


This is consistent with the previous videos of IDRA packing it up for shipping a couple weeks ago.

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For comparison here is image of 6K ton Giga-Press prep

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Construction workers preparing three Giga Press foundations at the Giga Texas factory site in January 2021

Tesla Cybertruck 9,000 Ton GigaPress Foundation Prepwork -- Possibly Shown in Drone Shots giga-texas-casting-giga-press-foundations-x3-rebar


Giga Press is a series of aluminium die casting machines manufactured by Idra Group in Italy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giga_Press

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Loved seeing this today!! I spotted the torn up foundation like 2 weeks ago or so?

I hope we get some better views of the bridge cranes built. Looks like it's over the DMG MORI machine.

I am super excited to see HOW they build this truck. Like, how do you actually do this?
 

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Wow… much smaller. Even the JPG is smaller.


giga-texas-casting-giga-press-foundations-x3-rebar.jpg


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Note the gap between the 6 ton foundations. The first 2 are closer together, the third with a gap.. a space is needed to store raw materials for every 2 presses?.

The think we are looking at 2 foundations for the 9T and they are spaced close.
 


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Note the gap between the 6 ton foundations. The first 2 are closer together, the third with a gap.. a space is needed to store raw materials for every 2 presses?.

The think we are looking at 2 foundations for the 9T and they are spaced close.
I meant that post to be humorous… clearly missed the mark.
 

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I meant that post to be humorous… clearly missed the mark.
I got the joke , I've gone back and put a lovely smile on it lol

My comments were really in addendum to your post. I wasn't sure if someone had already pointed out that maybe we are looking at 2 possible foundations.
 
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I got the joke , I've gone back and put a lovely smile on it lol

My comments were really in addendum to your post. I wasn't sure if someone had already pointed out that maybe we are looking at 2 possible foundations.
Now I feel like that commedian who tells a bad joke then holds his arms up and sort of begs for sympathy laughs.

I didn’t comment on your above because I’m not quite sure what the 9kT will look like. It’s either 2 of them which will be super super tight, or one REALLY big one.

If there are 2 of them, interesting that they are pouring the foundation for both now. Or perhaps they are just prepping and will pour closer to the date. It is I suppose possible they have one tucked into Elon’s garage and are planning on installing them both very close together.
 

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Why not orient all the casting machines in the same direction? The castings exit the side, and by having two machines face one another, they can use a single robot to retrieve the castings from two machines.

Are they really installing two 9000T presses? Somebody did the math and concluded that the press would need to run 24/7 to hit the targeted run rate of 250,000 Cybertrucks/year. They don't need two machines to start production, but it's a long-term necessity.
 


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Are they really installing two 9000T presses? Somebody did the math and concluded that the press would need to run 24/7 to hit the targeted run rate of 250,000 Cybertrucks/year. They don't need two machines to start production, but it's a long-term necessity.

Just from a redundancy and risk standpoint they might want to have two 9K giga-presses.

The casting molds are expensive and problably require waiting 6 or more months to get replacements (No just run down to local store or overnight ship replacement).

Changing molds in/out requires time for swapping, re-calibration and testing.
In addition each swap increases risk of accident that could damage the molds or damage the machine.
 

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It's going to be two 9k ton presses, Idra already stated they are working on the second one.
 

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I wouldn't be shoooocked if they black out the windows soon, but like why? but. I wouldn't be shocked though.
 
 




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