The cylinders he's talking about on the drill rig are the compensation system. They have to keep a certain pull on the tubing that connects the rig to the ocean floor / well head even when the water gets rough. I've seen 15 foot movement in rough weather. It has to maintain the pull at the right level even in 15' swells. The water / glycol mixture is pressurized with air to act like a big spring. Massive pressure tanks to give the cylinders enough volume for the movement.

@crcdistribution878

3 жыл бұрын

Riser tensioner systems.

@antonmursid3505

2 жыл бұрын

Antonmursid🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🇮🇩🇮🇩🇮🇩🇮🇩🇮🇩

I love how they have father time in the corner making custom tooling. There is no beating 50s-80s machinists. Masters of the trade.

Very knowledgable sales guy. Good to see!

this far more interesting then most movie that release these day :D

Some of those cylinders would make even Aboms eyes water.

@mtraven23

4 жыл бұрын

I was thinking he should have been invited for this one.

@crcdistribution878

3 жыл бұрын

LOL!!

This is an ABOM size place. Where's Adam when you need him to talk big machining?

@JJ-jv1gu

4 жыл бұрын

Ben S who’s that

@briantaylor6941

4 жыл бұрын

@@JJ-jv1gu Abom79

@TheFeller1554

4 жыл бұрын

Adam in that place would be a sight to see. I would just like to the giddy giggles.

@xenonram

4 жыл бұрын

@@JJ-jv1gu How are you possibly watching a machining video without knowing who Abom is. Although I suspect you know, because someone said *"abom* sized," with no mention of his name, in another post, and you wrote, "who is *Adam."* So I don't think you just guessed his name.

@strangefruit8776

4 жыл бұрын

That place makes the stuff Adam did look like child’s play.

This was the most impressive shop tour I've ever seen. Start to finish it looks safe, clean and very organised, pretty quiet too. Thanks for the tour !!

Hi John, Merry Christmas.. That was an impressive tour, thanks for bringing us along!

Thanks John 😎🎄. I really enjoyed the video.

WOW, that was amazing tour. Thank you R&J.

One of your best tours!

I bet their outtakes videos would be both amazing and horrifying... Thanks to both you and R&J Cylinder + Machine for the look at the operation.

love these tours, just awesome machinery :)

Fantastic tour I am in awe thanks for sharing.

Great tour. Love seeing companies like this in Ohio doing well. Keep up the awesome work!

Fantastic! Loved seeing this, thanks for sharing!!!!

I love John's excitement really shows he has a lot of passion for his trade.

@skmetal7

4 жыл бұрын

I love having an actual machinist doing shop tours. He knows what questions to ask and what everyone is talking about.

It’s the most impressive plant I’ve ever seen, INCREDIBLE Thanks to you and R&J Cylinder Machine for this video

That was a great tour. Thank you very much

Great stuff. Very interesting. Cheers, Merry Christmas

“Do the robots push or pull the puddle?” 😂😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

This tour blew my mind. Thanks for sharing.

Absolutely incredible what they are doing there!

Awesome tour. Great job, guys.

Incredible tour of an awesome business! Such a huge amount of CNC machines and automated welders. Thank you John!

Just amazing video series. Cant get enough!

One word "WOW"

Amazing set up.

Impressed & interesting facility!!

Yo this is some awesome footage dude!!

You were up here in phila. 5 minutes from my house, and couldn't stop to say hello...sheese

Great video!

Awsome video 👍

This is to cool, thanks for uploading. The owner must be proud.

John, that was awesome.. I had my jaw dropped for a good portion of that video, lol. Thanks for taking us along!

I'm very much happy with the Ohio shop tours 👍👍👍

Biggest machines of these type I have ever seen. Thank you.

Awesome place and a very good video John, really appreciate you taking the time doing these walk thrus. Jack knows his shop.👍 Confirms to me that the U.S. still has some manufacturing might..💪

Fabulous video John. Thanks for making it. Amazing just what USA can do and to think that R & J are a family business. I would like to wish them even more success.

I worked in the metal industry for 35 years on and off and made a lot of parts of all types , even machined rubies used in lasers. The biggest piece I did was a printing press roller that was about 30 " od by 10' long. I had to make the ends first , similar to the bearing surfaces on these rollers but no through core , the ends were pressed on with a trick we came up with. The piece would see the lathe 3 times. First time was to true the roll up and bore the ends for a .004 press fit. The roll was a forged tube 34"x12" wall x 10' long. The ends were 12" round CRS x24" long. 1st operation was to face the tube to length and bore for the press fit on the ends. The 1st day I started in this shop they were putting ends on one of these rollers. It took everyone in the shop for this because they were using heat and sledge hammers with a .001" press and the guys could barely stand up from taking turns on the hammer. I got the job next time it came in so I came up with another way. I went in the office and told them what I wanted to do. At first they shot it down because it meant putting a 2 1/4" thru hole in one end and a 2" - 4 thread in the backside of the other. An engineer overheard the meeting and told the owner the last one they did failed at the balance shop. .001 press was not enough to resist the harmonics of the new high speed balance machine they were using. The owner said he would call the customer to see if the changes were ok. Sarcastic as always he asked me if there was anything else I wanted to know. I said "ask him if we can weld the ends on if we blend the welds in the roughing operation. I thought this would take some time so I grabbed another job to do in the mean time. I hadn't finished that setup when the engineer came out and told me the customer gave the ok as long as I plug and weld the 2 1/4 hole back solid. One of the ends was threaded and keyed and the other allowed the bearing to float on a light press to allow for heat. I chose the threaded side for the bore so I can thread a screw jack on it to press the plug. As with the other roller I started by boring and facing the tube for the new style of ends and added a v cut for welding. I was lucky to have a very straight forging so I took off 2 1/2 inches of the 4 in the 1st roughing. Making the ends the only change made was increasing the press fit to .004 and cutting the tooling holes. Next was the screw jack. That was made from a piece of 2"CRS with single pointed thread and an 1 3/4 thru hole for a thick wall tube. We used a 14' tube and used the same method as the 1st end. We put the roller on shallow blocks and the ends on the floor . The jack was passed thru the roller and threaded into the floater end. Then the bored end was slid over , the nut was put on and we hit a snag. We needed the lathe to hold the part so we put the floater end in the chuck. This turned into a blessing because now we could check for true before we ever tightened the jack. We did need some heat but not til late in the press and the roller stayed fairly true. So after the 1st roughing the part got loaded up and sent to be normalized. When it came back the part was relaxed but my stress was just starting It relaxed with a bend in it that was more than I left for finishing. Back in the lathe to find the "spot" so I could torch shrink the high spot. That took time but I got it. Back then N.C. machines were called "tape machines" and were considered too high end for job shops.The feeds on a lathe were our C.N.C. ( we didn't even have D.R.O. ).

@markfryer9880

4 жыл бұрын

Interesting story, thanks for sharing.

this is mind blowing

Thanks for the video. It was very awesome to see the size of the size of those lathes.

What an amazing and informative video tour! Deep appreciation to Jack Colaprete for such in depth, knowledgeable and friendly hands-on presentation of the processes- he is an amazing teacher. And thanks go out to you, John, and R&J for another excellent video. New subscriber 👍

Incredible!

Thant was a good one John :)

Really cool,cool,cool,cool,cool shop and processes. Cool interviewer WEARS ME OUT!!!

Awesome!!

WOW nice to see the factory tour..

Huge machine shop

Wow, cool tour. That would be a great shop to tour with some drone fly through video!

That's some big boy stuff man . I find the weld lathes very interesting .

Awesome John, enjoyed! ATB, Robin

Cool to see. I work in a hydraulic repair shop and we service cylinders for the largest hydraulic shovels in the world. Could happily fall asleep in the barrel.

We love R&J Cylinder + Machine!!! Great people. Great work. Highly recommend them!

Too professional👍

Interesting, thanks,

Those large new Mitutoyo micrometers you were looking for? Found 'em at 46:33 ;) Great video, thanks for the info!

Factory tours!

Now this is my kind of shop

Holy dog shit I thought cracking a 4.25” ram nut was big boy business. Truly a treat especial! As my one uncle says...

really cool

Really nice and interesting shop tour. Thanks very much and greets from Germany. The biggest workpiece on a lathe(vertical) we have had here in our shop was over 160t (over 350 lbs)

@ChrisMaj

4 жыл бұрын

You guys must have some really big machines.

They have a stanko lathe! we have the same model but with 8m BC. love it

Ahhh,yeah. Reminds me of my early years of working in a shop environment,as a welder.

Prob the coolest video I’ve seen in a long long time!! I’d like to meet you some day. NYC cnc. You seem like such a legit nice person.

Abom sized machines :) Really nice tour! I learned few new things too. I always wonder how these steel / aluminium sheet rollers are constructed to not melt. Now I know.

merry xmas guys

Ready to see Johnny 5

i am proud to be in america and be an american. a family owned business of this scale in 30 years. hell yes. doing business all around the globe and employing 90 people. hell yes. i resent people like our last president telling us it can't be done. hell yes it can be done.

Wicked kool

We really hope to go there for a factory visit~

Our aluminum foundry, Alpase-TST Inc. in Chino CA, has been around since 1946 producing up to 60" x 480" 60k lb finished billet solid cylinders and 96" x 48" x 480" billet/cast plates. We have the largest updated and automated lathes and mills from the 1930s-40s in the world with tables up to 60 foot long with 72" chuck heads and 48" milling heads. All of our aluminum ingots are produced in-house from recycled aluminum in our 10 foundry electro-magnetic tilt pour furnaces from cans, rims, radiators, engine blocks, and any other aluminum recyclables. With 270 employees, our production capacity is in excess of 10 million pounds per month, making us one of the largest aluminum ingot producers and machining facilities in the USA.

Good video

Nice !!!! when I worked at Farrell Corp in the 70’s we were building 60’ lathes that can turn 8’dia steel or cast iron materials the tail stock was 6’ tall In the back of the plant they had 40’ vertical boring mills it takes 4 people to run it

@benmcguire3656

3 жыл бұрын

Visited the Rochester plant when we bought a 120 inch x 45 foot lathe, They were building a 43 foot VBM for Ontario Power. Too bad they are no longer in business.

When i heard them say that it's one of the biggest lathes i was confused because i've seen a far bigger one just where i live. I did some research to learn that that lathe is amongst the biggest in the world producing gigantic generator shafts. (Saarschmiede/Saarstahl Germany)

Damn that's in my own backyard I know exactly where that building is and have been by it years ago

58:13 "that's pretty much it in a nutshell. A very quick nutshell."

As a youngster I worked at a shop in w bridgewater mass that had a true military turret lathe. Massive for the day (70s). We made printing press chucks and shafts mostly webb and goss for newspapers

that video is pretty cool. i got a 1970s 6" atlas lathe though

That Momentum is sold by a company called Amtech in Texas. They also sell a Taiwanese made VMC called Sister built similarly to a doosan. They’ve got some 2014/15 era new old stock for hella good deals. I just don’t know anything about them so I just keep telling the salesman that is old buddies with my dad “maybe”.

Excelente. A1.

I use to rebuild those large rolls for Alumax years ago. It's hard work and scary ass hell when we use to cut the shells off. That company is no longer in business. Thank God the stuff I do now is small compared to what I use to do to old to jump around on those big lathes. I will keep R & J in mind if I come across anyone needing something like that done I will send them your way. Be safe and make chips.

Have you considered doing a VDL Groep tour? They make mostly everything but the sites that do semiconductor equipment contract work are soooo cool. Tool changers bigger than some shops. 😂

Workshop looks very Nice and clean. Pretty descent size of those cutting chips, almost sutible to put in a vice on my chinese cnc router for some machining. :D

Yo! You's guys stole our name! :)...Killer shop!

With those big lathes, you won't lose a finger, you'll get wrapped around the job. Awesome machines.

@ChrisMaj

4 жыл бұрын

I work on large machines but it's not the Lathe, it's the VTL that scares me. You see 63" chuck spin at 250 rpm it sounds like a helicopter.

@Icutmetal

3 жыл бұрын

Chris Maj You spin a big VTL like that at 4,127 surface feet, huh?

I had to pause to do some metric conversions, but it was definitely worth it. Those things are massive.

I turned up my volume right as he switched to the honing footage :D

You need yourself a decent lathe , twin spindle with a y. You'd fall in love with the efficiency and one and done parts

I'm from Fairmont area and I use to do a awful lot of manual machine work for Swawson in Morgantown. And a few other hyd and electric motor shops in this area when I worked for local shops and my own shop for years.

You should try to tour Komatsu in Longview,TX. The CNC machines in this video a small.

Excellent tour, excellent company. They could use a rotary Friction welder for the rod ends to rods though. Thanks for sharing.

@mikeznel6048

2 жыл бұрын

No. Not as good of a connection and more work for little to no gain.

John, Check out Timken Steel just around the corner from New Philly. They use a lot of those Rolls and it is a fascinating place.

I’ve got an itch and a fever.... the only cure is more holy cow bell.... give me more holy cow bell!

Hi) A very cool tour, it's nice to see a modern manufacturing industry equipped with good equipment)) I work in a similar manufacturing industry, but it is smaller, in our country there are few such manufacturing industries. They began to appear relatively recently) Greetings from Russia)))

I do kinda similar stuff, it’s cool to see how the machines are alike/different

I ran a huge honer just like that biggest of theirs in the final year of my apprenticeship at Clark Equipment in Asquith, Australia...way back in 1977. Not as long but certainly similar diameters

Ok…this is my second video and you’ve earned my interest! I’ll go ahead and hit that subscribe button!

I used to work at XTek Inc in Sharonville Ohio and most of their lathes can handle 40,000 lbs but they have a giant CNC lathe that has a limit of closer to 100,000 lbs!!! It's an open bed and has the coolant tank beneath it in a pit in the floor!

36:25 That bed needs some cleaning&oil and perhaps a regrind. I wonder what machines are used to grind these machines ;-)