Gwen Bartel, Lead Hand
My Job
The buy off
We call our lay-up material an LM. Once the LM is placed on the part, we make sure everything is perfectly laid, properly placed, vacuumed onto the part and free of dirt and wrinkles.
Once I'm comfortable the work is done properly and set up perfectly I stamp it, which is called a "buyoff".
Once I buy it off, the piece moves to a different area for further processing. Ninety-nine percent of the time I buy it off but sometimes we need to make adjustments to fix things first.