One of the die casting jobs that Tom was most proud of are the valve bodies used in modern automatic transmissions. They were originally made of cast iron and required much machining. Tom developed the tooling to cast the difficult shapes that would be needed. Valve bodies are still a big part of the current production in several of the Lester plants. The combined plants currently manufacture more than 20,000 valve bodies per day.
Who knew! Been working with automatics for 40 years now. About half of them had cast iron VB's when I started. All are aluminum now. Bob
