Factory Tour | TURNING, BORING, & HONING GIANT HYDRAULIC CYLINDERS R&J Cylinder + Machine

[@AlphaNerd132]

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

[@jdholbrook33]

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]

Riser tensioner systems.

[@antonmursid3505]

Antonmursid🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🇮🇩🇮🇩🇮🇩🇮🇩🇮🇩

[@bmonty65]

Very knowledgable sales guy. Good to see!

[@incubatork]

Some of those cylinders would make even Aboms eyes water.

[@mtraven23]

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

[@crcdistribution878]

LOL!!

[@SunnnyDay]

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 !!

[@rronay2732]

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

[@1AMERICANWORKER]

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]

Interesting story, thanks for sharing.

[@dragerx001]

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

[@norahung588]

WOW nice to see the factory tour..

[@hgbugalou]

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

[@skmetal7]

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

[@kevinriese6384]

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.

[@patricksullivan9951]

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

[@PettyVagrant]

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.

[@SteveSummers]

Thanks John 😎🎄. I really enjoyed the video.

[@roberttodd2330]

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

[@MarcinKryszak]

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

[@memonaelmahi6646]

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

[@PristineTX]

One of your best tours!

[@sampsonenator]

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

[@JJ-jv1gu]

Ben S who’s that

[@briantaylor6941]

@@JJ-jv1gu Abom79

[@TheFeller1554]

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

[@xenonram]

@@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]

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

[@pmtips4482]

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

[@shovelguggelheim8454]

This tour blew my mind. Thanks for sharing.

[@skipl.7355]

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 👍

[@crcdistribution878]

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

[@andreturnbull1259]

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.

[@DieKroete100]

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]

You guys must have some really big machines.

[@billcoley8520]

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

[@KenJaneThurston]

One word "WOW"

[@RookieLock]

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

[@MrGuitarbike]

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.

[@audioalt]

Fantastic tour I am in awe thanks for sharing.

[@joachimsingh6553]

Just amazing video series. Cant get enough!

[@sunshine_water5139]

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

[@RRaucina]

Companies and craftsman like these are what will save America in the next war.

[@Sicktrickintuner]

Factory tours!

[@rgbrown90]

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

[@c4tohagen]

love these tours, just awesome machinery :)

[@rodneykiemele4721]

That was a great tour. Thank you very much

[@rjl6532]

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]

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.

[@SpencerWebb]

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

[@sickandtiredofcomplaining6574]

Yo this is some awesome footage dude!!

[@bcwrangler]

Absolutely incredible what they are doing there!

[@joshuamartin6841]

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

[@briantaylor6941]

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

[@ChrisMaj]

Now this is my kind of shop

[@anonymousgeorge4321]

Awesome tour. Great job, guys.

[@kisspeteristvan]

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

[@MrPlumberguy23]

Ready to see Johnny 5

[@chucka103]

Thant was a good one John :)

[@Animaniac-vd5st]

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)

[@1320pass]

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..💪

[@robertghorne8607]

Awsome video 👍

[@mac_uk5464]

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

[@ChrisMaj]

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]

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

[@terminatormode2281]

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.

[@drummerhammar]

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

[@norahung588]

We really hope to go there for a factory visit~

[@ROBRENZ]

Awesome John, enjoyed! ATB, Robin

[@larrychristopher9147]

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

[@peckerwood9383]

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

[@excitedbox5705]

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

[@vitalcarry]

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

[@latemnf]

That Mitsubishi horizontal @ 6:20 with the pallet changer looks like Peter from Edge Precision's mistubishi. I believe his is the M-H80E.

[@movax20h]

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.

[@Thewaldo12345]

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”.

[@plymouth-hl20ton37]

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

[@pco1984]

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

[@nokoilseal3399]

Too professional👍

[@drage275]

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

[@thomasfaucette6439]

Huge machine shop

[@hgbugalou]

That dude knows way too much about the operations and engineering to be in marketing.

[@2dividedby3equals666]

I guess it's good to have someone that knows what he's talking about on sales. It's not hard to find sales people that know jack squat about the product let alone the process. But you are right, he knows a ton!

[@gumwap1]

Imagine how much the other guys know

[@lancer2204]

@@gumwap1 He may not have STARTED in marketing.

[@spiralarmament7276]

He was probably in engineering before realizing he wanted to make more money :)

[@joshtryon1107]

Engineers who can speak to people can make more money in sales

[@KevOXO]

That is a tidy shop. Half a lifetime ago I used to work in a heavy engineering company, it had foundry, machine shop and boilermakers that considered 1 inch plate as sheet metal. The machine shop producing small pump parts through to big stuff for hydro-electric plants. Pre-CNC so the guys there had to be paying attention for the full shift not just feeding the material and changing cutters. Having to do 9,000 parts on a capstan lathe per 8 hour day was monotonous but setup and watching a 4 head mill take the same time to mill the seals on a 50 foot sluice gate from a dam was a trial in itself. Final cut, it was watch and pray to the god of carbide tips that all 40 tips would stay tight in the heads and hold tolerance or was the shop forman going to need a new pacemaker and a guy that could repair any damage with hardfacing rods, then re-machine it. That would also require the gantry crane drivers to take the part off the mill so it could be taken over to have the repaired area x-rayed for slag inclusion. Big jobs, small errors big money recovery. I get nostalgic when I smell cutting oil now but the thought of the noise, safety hat, glasses, face-mask, respirator, ear plugs, ear protectors, gloves, overalls, boots and planning toilet visits so someone can watch your machine???? Maybe.

[@Trendyrapslut]

oh god no thank you.

[@berternieartist]

Great video!

[@terrydawson5304]

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.

[@mikecoller]

Amazing set up.

[@DaaGoddy]

What was inside the black case in the metrology rooms, he was about to open around 20:00? Great tour! ☺️

[@linkdude64]

Let them know if they get some cushion pads for the ground in front of those machines their employees will feel better, spend less time irritated and rubbing their knees, and have more head space! And probably need less time off in the long run, too! Seem like a great bunch of hardworking folks in the background, there. Hope they have a Merry Christmas!

[@HarrisPropertyMaintenance]

this is mind blowing

[@jdrevenge]

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. 😂

[@artiejohnson40]

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!

[@godbluffvdgg]

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

[@Seveneleven44]

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

[@zattcoman]

Impressed & interesting facility!!

[@BT59]

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

[@ruperthartop7202]

Great stuff. Very interesting. Cheers, Merry Christmas

[@maxarnaut9031]

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)))

[@bostedtap8399]

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

[@mikeznel6048]

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

[@PowerWindows3813]

Incredible!

[@superjojo555]

merry xmas guys

[@endemiller5463]

Awesome!!

[@jendib]

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

[@artiejohnson40]

XTek Inc does a ton of those rolls and they are the company that actually came up with the proprietary metal that goes on those grooved rolls! The sleeves that get pressed onto them is a specific type of metal!

[@torstenb5248]

Is this shop in India? Asking because of the impressing number of holy cows in there.

[@jezd8431]

Take a shot everytime he says Holy Cow...

[@mikeznel6048]

Hahaha yeah right lol.

[@Mad.Man.Marine]

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.

[@roggill6599]

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.

[@hinz1]

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

[@EmbSysDev]

When I see such videos I am always reminded of Diogenes of Sinope : When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

[@mannycalavera121]

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

[@gatohdz9132]

Good video

[@mikeshanahan8602]

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.

[@Plateaudweller]

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

[@wadesmith9483]

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