It looks like a submarine. It's actually the single most important machine in this building.
In Vlog 02, Andy and Frank stopped in front of the biggest piece of equipment on the factory floor — the autoclave — and explained, in plain language, what that high-temperature pressure vessel actually does to a sheet of carbon fiber prepreg.
It's the machine that separates real dry carbon from wet layup. And once you understand what happens inside it, the whole price difference between the two stops being a mystery.