Industrial maintenance!

[@Tripp23]

Is it weird that I enjoy watching this even though I do it 60 hours a week? Love the videos man! I have learned a lot!

[@pfadiva]

It's always nice to watch someone else work.

[@claytonno2571]

@@pfadiva spoken like a true middling manager hahaha

[@shawnsweeney6268]

Dude I’m the same way. Come home from work or watch these on nights. It’s just nice seeing somebody enjoys the same pain I have to go thru 😅

[@OwensGarage]

My dad spent 10+ years running cnc lathe at a machine shop here in southeastern Pennsylvania where they make and rebuild blow molds. They got bought out and corporate took over and he got sick of it and left. It’s one of the few shops around that does it, so if you guys do any blow molding there’s a good chance he might have made parts for one of the molds.

[@brandonbarker7817]

I come home from work to watch work! Whats wrong with me 😂

[@dansproshop]

Haha! So true!

[@MapleHillMunitions]

Same here. 😂

[@kennethlittle8505]

Love the videos. I just found them. I'm apprenticing in maintenance for ppc and everything looks very familiar. I'll definitely be watching alot more and soaking up all the information!

[@dansproshop]

Thanks so much! I’m having a live stream event this Friday 3-29-24 @7pm. Here’s the link. kzbin.infoSTk0oVIkDxA?si=fSQeCBCQerYjJgTM Check it out and jump in the chat to ask some questions!

[@sparky_murph]

Enjoy your videos, and reminds me of my place. Though your plant seems to have it together better than mine. Great job. Keep it up.

[@dansproshop]

Thank you very much!

[@sparky_murph]

@@dansproshop very much welcome, sir.

[@menachemkizelnik1797]

BTW for the roof ac units u can order metal filters that you can blow out with air and the filter lasts for years (if you clean them regularly )

[@michaelbrennan7148]

Thanks Dan

[@dansproshop]

Absolutely!

[@endoftheroadforge]

New Mexico is here.

[@johnofsometrades405]

NM? What area? I grew up there, Manzano area, then down to LC

[@endoftheroadforge]

@@johnofsometrades405 northeast nm southwest of Gallup up in the Zuni mountains.

[@johnanthony8865]

I worked at heritage plastics south in Hillsboro county Florida about 20 years ago as an industrial maintenance mechanic. Very nostalgic to see the company name after so long

[@Skunkhunt_42]

This water tower in FL? Man I set up a plant in Tampa and the humidity made for a tough time getting spec cooling.

[@garbo8962]

Worked 50 enjoys years in large plants and never blow out a running air compressor Would shut them down before blowing downs and safety department made us wear dust mask & safety glasses. I would wash the 4 by 4" up to16 by 16" filters on electrical cabinets & VFD'S every month or so with warm water and mild soap. Have not greased a motor in last 20 plus years because they have sealed bearing and no longer have zerk grease fittings. When we had a motor shop rewind a old motor that had grease fittings would tell them to install sealed hearings and remove grease fittings. Wired up a few injection molding plants that had up to 500 ton presses. They never could reuse all of the regrind plastic and had to throw some away. Big money makers how most plastic shops run at least 24/5. One plastic shop made over a million same size plastic adjustment screws a year for a customer.

[@johnskocich6455]

In case anyone is wondering... when you grunt or make noise or stick your tongue out when loosening or tightening fasteners.... you get an extra 50ftlbs on tourqe ... FYI 😂

[@dansproshop]

Looser you grunt, more torque you get. Just don’t sneeze at the same time or you’ll definitely break the bolt! Lol

[@ErnestLingerfelt]

now ya have to explain a screw compressor

[@brandonbarker7817]

Oklahoma Watching

[@johnofsometrades405]

What part of OK? I'm new here, off the Pike in OKC

[@garbo8962]

Retired from a large hospital / Research centers where we had to come in a few times a month at 4 AM and at midnight or 2 AM a few tines a year to help out with ATS testing & PM on a dozen 13,000 dual service substations. Cheap ass Facility manager wanted us to work a double shift for straight time then take a day off so we only worked 40 hours. Told them Nope. Told them I was not working over 12 hours at straight time. Once they said something because I was eating breakfast in one of the cafeterias at 8 AM. Told them no problem that even though I just worked 6 hours without a coffee break I was going to punch out and go home. Was never boring working as an maintenance electrician. One of the few over 12,000 employees who worked on every floor, every roof, every mechanical rooms etc.

[@pauljohnson4868]

Love the video. Our facility is 24/7 364 so maintenence is a little different. Major service has do be scheduled during a shut down which doesn’t happen very often. The equipment is similar but we have redundant systems so we can shut down one while another is running.

[@dansproshop]

Thanks!!

[@Bowhunterohio]

Ok so since your using chillers, blowers, pumps, heat exchanger and mentioned having a material silo that means your working either with extruders or mold injection. I believe it must be extruders though since I didn’t hear you mention glycol. I worked mold injection for years but the last few years I’ve been working around extruders. We have 15 material siloes though and our water system is set up a little differently because we use kettle filters that use those sick filters but it’s still connected through a chiller. Our PM’s consist of the budzars, thermalator and dryers. We have a lot of wood blend also that we use for some extruders though. It beats the heck outta the large hydraulic presses with mold injection. I hated those machines. lol.

[@dansproshop]

Yes. It’s primarily injection molding

[@michaelbrennan7148]

NYC watching

[@curtmazur5155]

Chicago here. Love the vids. Dont over do it though, dont want to watch you lose your job over some videos.

[@dansproshop]

Thanks! No worries, the boss man is on board, he loves it!

[@donavonbaker5172]

Now i understand my problem im not gitting my filter blown out regulary🙃

[@johnofsometrades405]

First time watching you live. Just wanted to say "Hi"

[@dansproshop]

Thanks!

[@oldmanjake68]

Klamath Falls, Oregon viewing your latest......well done!

[@dansproshop]

Thank you! And welcome!

[@tacklebox6239]

I’m a plumber and work 50-70 hours a week and enjoy watching plumbing videos too. Just how it gooles when you’re a workaholic lol

[@Blobby_Hill]

I feel like I am being trained for a new job.

[@johnofsometrades405]

OKC here

[@jacobyspurnger8488]

Why are you not wearing a dust mask when you're blowing out the filters? Also, those sock filters, they use them in the 300 & 1200 gallon fryers at the potato chip factory. Trust me, they are no fun to change, especially when they're hotter than heck. At least yours is cool water, so count yourself lucky. Again, your maintenance rooms and machinery therein are the cleanest I've ever seen. I can definitely tell that their well taken care of. Keep up the good work.

[@HDisNotSmart]

Agree on the encouragement for a N95 dust respirator for the blowout. Dan told us he wishes he didn't jump off trailers when he was young, this is only worse in the long run.

[@wesleycuevas7947]

What type of seals do you run on those pumps ? And what is there life expectancy ?

[@dansproshop]

Buna rubber flange gaskets. They usually hold up for the life of the pump

[@troycayton3436]

Just recently came across your videos and I’ve enjoyed them. 👍🏻 Though I got a question dealing at 26:22 and knowing you deal with moldings and pneumatic systems. Would it possibly be more beneficial to use smaller inline filters (Example that we use regularly in inflator manufacturing; model# ppsf.5-x35) at the machines that create vacuum? We generally use these inline with small vacuum generators and are very fine to catch dust and cleaned between shifts.

[@dansproshop]

Thank you! And yes! We do have smaller filters at every machine that takes vacuum. They are cleaned much more often

[@ravenbarsrepairs5594]

You get day's to do maintanence? Management insists we just run it till it blows then just patch it together. As a laborer/operator, I know more about the maintanence schedule I've developed than the in house shop(diesel mechanics) to the point our official maintance schedule simply says "grease all fitting daily" which I've done and replaced way to many bearing because of due to blown out seals. I've got a 4 page spreadsheet of all the different tasks I try to get to and how often they should be done, and it's still a work in progress, as some things I haven't remembered yet. Recycling plant so simply 5 conveyors, a 30yr old baler(talk about tempermental old girls, there are only 3 of us in the company that can fully run the machine with a couple others that run it if one of the 3 are on hand to solve issues that arise, as knowing which limit switch to trick to make the machine do what it needs to do to get out of whatever "Ooopie": it got itself into is very confusing without a complete understanding of what does what and what caused the issue(typically a safety/limit switch detected a fault when none was present....) and a newer trash compactor that's been cranked way out of spec. My list has everything from checking certain bolts haven't come loose to cleaning the bathroom, and rarely do any of my coworkers do any tasks on the list.../..

[@TheHouseOfMoth]

I do not understand blowing out the filters inside, all that dust just gets sucked up by the machines again. Or am I missing something? Either way, cool vid :)

[@TheHouseOfMoth]

Not 5 seconds after I posted that, you explain there is a giant exhaust fan above you.... sigh. I'll never learn..

[@dansproshop]

lol. No worries!

[@Savage22223]

Hey Dan I’m looking for work in Louisiana around Gonzales La area.

[@robbieblaze88]

It would be so funny if you started doing jocko's watch posts with your own only using 90's McDonald's watches and posting an hour earlier.

[@bigdonbigdon6495]

Thanks for the great videos you have a great way of telling us what you are doing and it doesn't seem to be over everyone's head. The only thing I am wondering is do you have to go get your pilot's license to use your drone. I have been seeing thing about that the FAA is making you get a license to fly one now. Just wondering if you had heard about that? But anyway be safe out there and again thanks for the great videos. Sorry just seen that people are putting where they are watching from Spokane Valley Wa watching

[@dansproshop]

Thanks so much! I honestly have no idea about a license. Lol. I guess I’ll find out?

[@kennyplank6878]

do you recommend IM over CNC machining? i am debating on what to go to school for. I have a Aircraft maintenance background. CNC machining pays significantly less but isn't very physical.

[@dansproshop]

Honestly if you like that kinda stuff I would pursue a career in fabrication.

[@Play4Vida]

maybe you should get a vacuum instead of blowing the dust onto other filters, the exhaust fan on the ceiling is too high for the ground dust.

[@ErnestLingerfelt]

no lockout tag out?

[@donavonbaker5172]

Ohio watching

[@garcjr]

I'm in Arizona so the dust our air compressors collect looks like atomic bombs going off. I have to have a mask on.

[@xcross08x]

All that equipment looks like ours at a water bottleing facility 😮

[@kirkjackson3306]

Niagara?

[@CreachterZ]

So this isn’t about golf?

[@Robyrob7771]

Our Gaylord’s stand 6’ to 7’ tall

[@mikebrosnan2895]

*Kunkle Valve

[@dansproshop]

lol. Gets me every time

[@juanfeliperizomejia6682]

What bored job!!!!!

[@stanleyroberts2461]

Too bad you didnt take that outside and blow it out

[@Venom-nk8nd]

🇵🇬,,,