Deafers Urged to: Bring Employees to A-Day Component Program at'NRLDA Show

Dealers are invited to bring their technical personnel, component marugerso and other associates to the N.R.LD-A. Exposition to learn more about componentstheir fabrication, design, application, handling and erection.

According to T. T. Sneddon, Executive Viee-President of N.R.L.D.A. the 1962 Exposition contains an unprecedented emphasis on components that literally makes the show a four-day components school for those dealers who wish to make it so. Here are the phases of the program which dealers are urged to turn into educational curricula:

BUSINESS PROGRAM"l{e$' 1q Build Better for Less". Four recognized component experts will update experienced dealers and introduce less experienced ones to the technical and merchandising aspects of dealer fabrication as a business.

,. Prflcl rrenbers are Raymon H. Harrell, Executive Vice Presideni of the Lumber Dealers Research Council; Leonard G. Haeger, A.LA., component consultant; Elmer Johnson, Manager of Special Projects, United States Gypsum Co.; and Prof. R. A. Jones, Director of the Small Homes Council, University of Illinois.

COMPONENT FABRICATION-"Component Arena". Through participation of the Lumber Dealers Research Council and a group of manufacturers, dealers and their shop men will be able to study for four days how wall panels, roof trusses, pre-hung doors, window components and other house parts are fabricated.

This "tuition-free shop course" will show up problems of fabrication and their solutions, beeause the demonstrations are live and continuous. Components will be made for actual use. Equipment and materials manufacturers will be showing their products under just such conditions as the deal. er would use them.

Here are the participants and their featured items:

Anderson Corp., Strutwell units; Clary Corp., component automation equipment and door pre-hanging; Hansen Truss Plates, Inc,, Metal-connectored truss production; Leslie Welding Co. Inc., gable-end loqver demonstration; Lu-Re-Co wall pangl system; crrnvertti,otral and dtrrible - skin modular wall components; Masonite Corp., a new panelized nonload-bearing storage partition, pre-assembled interior wall system, and exterior and interior hardboard skins.

National Lock Co., new component lock for joining double-skin panels and other components, and builders hardware; Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corp., suspended ceiling, Friction-Fit insulation, polyeth- elene vapor barrier, and a new cast-in-onepiece fibergl:tss component showerl Q-Sy.tems, Inc., custom wall panel system, using the Q-Jig and Q-Guide; Spotnails, Inc., automatic fastening of component skins, sheathing paneling truss plates and other materialsl Stanco Midwest Sales, Inc., multiple on-site setting of roof trusses using a H.I.A.B. Crane and truss spacer bar developed by Trendway, Inc., truss wholesaler; Trendway, Inc., truss distribution:

United States Gypsum Co., Structieore panel erection demonstration, sheathing, interior gypsum skins, insulation and tile; and Weyerhaeuser Company,, Primewood Siding, framing lumber, plywood sheathing, and Forest Glow hardwood paneling.

COMPONENT HOUSE ERECTTON"How to Build Better for Less with Component6". Of prime interest to deeler+ manageie and employees,' this demonstration will show in repeat performances each day how a house is built of components.

Available-now dealer fabricated or dealer merchandised components will be featured; so also will be the more advanced components toward which the industry is working. Among the latter will be insulated, double-skin exterior wall panels to be joined by a new-built-in locking device.

A major portion of the house will be built before the show, and will contain a 24x10-ft. mechanical core, current research project of the Lumber Dealers Research Council. A 6-ton unit containing two baths, work area of the kitchen, heating, plumbing, and electrical units, and devices, the core is designed to be set in place mechanically at the site.

Around the core will be erected the panels, trusses, and other fabricated parts from the Arena demonstration, A crane designed for truck mounting will demonstrate handling of a smaller LDRC plumbing core and a fiberglass shower unit, as well as multiple setting of trusses.

COMPONENT HANDLINGA segment of the Material Handling Demonstration will be devoted to the special problems of loading hauling and unloading bulky fabricated units. In addition, special techniques will be demonstrated as components are produced and taken from the Arena for storage or erection demonstration.

This is the first time a live demonstration of fabrication and homebuilding has ever been staged, Sneddon pointed out. "Supplemented by the business program (Contiru,ed, on Page 12)