Proud to say that Ron is my Uncle. He still rides his Harley, just rebuilt a cool old Chevy pickup, has a hand built hot rod that he made a lot of the parts for and is as nice a guy IRL as you see in this video. You should see his shop!

@michael931

2 жыл бұрын

Is he around 80? He looks maybe 60.

@mikepatterson5888

2 жыл бұрын

@@michael931 He's 79.

@rongrundy5136

2 жыл бұрын

got my reply to work computer dunce ...thanks for the comment

@michael931

2 жыл бұрын

@@rongrundy5136 you actually look like you could be in your 50's. Is scraping the key to long life? Or cutting oil? :)

@gilcore5245

2 жыл бұрын

Submariner.

What a knowledgeable, articulate, engaging and enthusiastic man. Old school....in the best possible way. I just hope that I'm in as good shape when I'm 79. Thanks to both Ron and Keith.

This is one of the most interesting histories of American machine history that I have seen. I wish that I could have even half of the talent and knowledge that gentleman has and wasn't so old so I could put it into practice. Thanks for the video.

I worked with Ron at renewment division. Those were the good old days. As Ron said K-T was a great place to work and quality was always there.

Good Morning Keith & Ron: Excellent video and interview as always! USS Runner #476 was built in 1944. I was in the Navy at pretty much the same time as Mr. Grundy. I am a little older then Mr Grundy, and was in Sub service stationed at Pearl Harbor as a "yard" bird for 7.5 years. I had 30 years of service, and worked on a lot of subs;.... but I don't recall working on the Runner. I was on a tender in Guam, and then on the Enterprise for a couple of years. Our machine shops were very well equipped, and we had many of these K & T mills, as well as others. Best Wishes, and GOD BLESS! Gary ,

I very much enjoyed watching and listening to Ron and you this morning over my coffee. I would love to see more videos with these icons of the past machining industry. Thank you for taking the time to document Ron and his stories...

@markhelseth253

2 жыл бұрын

I second Fred's request for more interviews of the old masters. The US industrial industry is an amazing story that doesn't get told. I'd love to hear more from ANY of these industry masters. Keith - you have a natural gift for interviewing and bringing out those wonderul stories. Thank you.

Ron is a Great interview subject ! Loved this video . Brings back so many memories . Thanks Keith for introducing him to us !

Way to represent Ron Grundy! Miss working with the gang at K&T!!! "Always good machines!"

thanks Keith for making our machines more loved

A very interesting video. I was a West Coast Service Tech/Representative from the CA West Coast Regional office who installed many different MM CNC milling machines throughout Aerospace Defense facilities in the 80’s. I was fortunate enough where I actually worked there at the K & T Facility in Milwaukee. It was most likely Bob Trecker and my Santa Fe Springs Manager approved a 7 month pilot apprenticeship program where I trained alongside those wonderfully talented employees. During my initial tenure, I met/worked briefly with a taller Serbian employee who would perform hand scraping for many CNC’s. There he scraped the beds beforehand where he ran “yaw” “pitch” and “roll” using laser equipment. I remember using an auto collimator and interferometer. Once he finalized the scraping they installed the machined ways and continued the process of rechecking tolerances. It was interesting to watch the employees. Most were extremely conscientious individuals and quality, fit, & smooth operation of these machining centers was important to them. Does Ron remember what type of wooden floors they used? I do remember the 12 minute lunches, fortunately I was exempt.

Ron is a very interesting and informative guy to listen to. Thanks for this insight into these machines and the skills needed to build them. Great video, thanks Keith.

Thank you, Ron. Thank you for your service to our Country. Thank you for your dedication to your job and to 'your' company. Thank you for your dedication to a work ethic that, while not gone, sadly it's a rarity to find nowadays. I think that is one of the reasons KZread channels like Keith's are as popular as they are: he shares your dedication and commitment to doing a job right, the first time. Keith, thank you for finding and continuing to promote the values that made America the greatest Country the world has ever known. While we've been beaten up, we've not been beaten down. Not yet. Let's pray the clowns (on BOTH sides) can pull their collective heads out of the shade and remember they serve the Country, NOT themselves. Sorry, for the preachin', I get wound up every once in a while. Thanks, Keith, Thanks, Ron. And thank you America!

Great interview. Great to hear the stories from someone that worked there and has so much experience. I have a 2H that I got for free down here in San Diego. It seemed to be part a Navy repair station, then ended up in a motorcycle shop where it sat for about 50 years. I went to look at it, and the guy said if I can get it out of here, I can have it. Took it home, wired it up, and it runs like a champ. It was built the same year Ron and my step-mom were born so I named it Jodi, after her.

That was a real pleasure to watch. Thanks Ron and Keith.

Thank you Keith for being so kind with information one K and T and good luck to you and Ron. One day I will have to look you up. Call it a bucket list so to speak Peace and good day. VF

Our shop still has four k&t mills running daily. Incredible machines and an incredible story. Thank you so much for sharing.

Scraping the ways of a machine is a lost artform. Thank you for filming this interview!

you guys are why this country was great, thank you

Gday Kieth, thanks very much for sharing Ron’s story and history, very interesting and enjoyable to watch, lots of history there and now there’s a little preserved for future generations, thanks Kieth, Cheers

nice to here him tell the storry

Thank you Ron for sharing your story's!

Really interesting interview, Keith. What a wealth of knowledge that Ron has about K&T machine tools, and a bygone era in our country's industrial history.

oh man...this is so cool.... I could listen to guys like this for hours. I just aquired a model K. I am blown away at the amount of money it was way back when to rebuild these

Thank you for documenting his wealth of knowledge.

I learned to use an old war finish model K&T horizontal mill at the Glenn L. Martin Wind Tunnel machine shop at the University of Maryland. I was fortunate to have a very patient mentor (Charles Lessig)

We have a Milwaukee matic IIIb NC. We retrofit it and still use it today. Amazing machine.

Great episode!

What a great interview. Love the stories!

GREAT VIDEO !!!

Very enjoyable, thank you

Excellent, thanks.

Fantastic thank you

Awesome video!

Very interesting interview, thank you.

an excellent interview thank you

Great interview! Thank you Keith

Fascinating! Thanks Ron and Keith for putting this together!

Thank you for posting.

Great interview Keith. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks so much for this great interview.

T hanks for posting. Very interesting

Thank you & Ron

Thank you for sharing. Enjoyed.

Fascinating discussion. Thanks for doing sharing!

Great Video!

Great interview Keith.

Great video!

Superb, just luv it 👍👍👍👌👌

Fabulous interview. Thank you both.

Fascinating Keith, absolutely fascinating, thanks for sharing.

WONDERFUL!

Nice!! Great stories... :-)

Great stuff. A wealth of knowledge.

That was a great interview Keith, I enjoyed it a lot.

Wonderful - thank you Keith and Ron.

That was an enjoyable interview! Thanks Keith and Ron

Great video one of the best I've seen on KZread. Thank you for the content you put up.

An excellent interesting interview. Thanks to you both.

What a fantastic interview Keith! Well done.

Thank you for sharing his wisdom with us.

Very interesting to listen to Ron, thanks Keith

Great video Keith! Ron is so interesting to listen to.

Very interesting interview Keith. So good to hear old experiences first hand. And thanks Ron Grundy for sharing!

More like this! Thanks both of you Lennart in Sweden

I worked at Waner & Swasey in the early 70s. At their Solon road plant they had two Milwaukeematics . Both NC controlled. They had many very impressive machine tools.

Really great interview, Ron and Keith! This is quite a service you’ve done for the community to publish this.

Most interesting, really enjoyed.

Thanks so much for sharing this Keith, love hearing about days past and how quality and pride were the goal. The current "built for profit " is a sad direction that a lot of companies have had to take just to survive in the global market. Less scrapping and more scraping! Cheers

Awesome interview. Thanks, Ron!

Fun to hear the history Thanks

Love old stories !

Wow! What a great guy Ron is!!! This was a wonderful history lesson. Great video!

Please do more interviews like this if you get a chance. Absolutely love interviews like this! 👍

Thank you for sharing. Makes me want to find a model 1 or 2 now for my small hobby shop more than ever!

Excellent interview with Ron sharing his employment history with K&T and some of the behind the scenes at K&T. This was really good content for your channel Keith. It was also great meeting with you again at Arnfest 2021.

Facinating History lesson !!!

Thank you Keith and Ron. Very enjoyable to listen to the history of these great machines

Fantastic video! I love listening to the old timers about the companies they worked for.

Really loved the video what a great talent!!

Thanks, Ron. Thanks, Keith.

G'day Keith, a most engrossing video! Would love to see and hear more from Ron.

That was the best video's for me you ever have done. One on one with history like that is priceless. Do more if you can. Thank you "The Gundoctor"

I enjoyed this meeting of knowledge , books are fine living master machine builders shows the great reliability of our history ,, when we built them to last a lifetime. We dont realize when we're doing it till many years later. You see we have natural heroes that no one appreciates. Thank you sir for creating legends .

Love listening to stories from these old guys. so much knowledge and insight. I could have listened to him for hours!

We have an old K&T 50 taper vertical mill here at NASA Michoud Assembly plant in New Orleans. Its old and still used for cutting weld test panels on a vacuum chuck since early 1970's. Spindle seal leak, but that is from excessive use.

Wonderful video Keith, thanks Ron Grundy for all your Navy and K&T service......

Thank you both for taking the time for this interview.

Lovely story , thanks guys 👏👏😎🍺🍺👍🇬🇧

What a wonderful interview,I could listen and engage with Ron Grundy all day long,thanks Keith for posting.🤗😎🤗😎

Great Video on the History of American tooling

Two thumbs up for that one guys! Really enjoyed it thank you!

Awesome

A great guy!.

The skilled trades are to be greatly admired.

That was really great listening to him would have liked to seen his shop.

thank you

so nice to hear stories and meet people who worked on, engineered, built and maintained these great machines. What a wealth of information. Thank you Ron & Keith

Yall are doing an amazing job of preserving the history of technology. THANK YOU.

True history, like wine, is to be savored. Thanks to Ron and of course Keith, for sharing memories... great history.

Keith - Great interview. Ron - Very nice for you to share your experiences and knowledge of KT manufactured equipment.