That's the same kid, Mike, that calibrated and recertified Tom Lipton's plates at Ox. He's super passionate about all things granite; especially the vintage optical collimator. (I think it's a Bausch + Lomb.) That's really cool to see someone that is so passionate like that; especially a young kid.
I thought it was a Hilger & Watts but who's keeping track. I especially liked the Keysight laser comment and that they prefer the autocollimator. I'm not sure what the price is on a Keysight interferometer these days, but back in the HP days it was easily a 10 grand kit, and they prefer primitive optics. Take that technology.
+skamego Oh man, I didn't remember. All I remembered was that it was an optics company whose name was a 2-surname combination. The first thing that came to mind was Bausch & Lomb. My bad.
Mike D., your tour guide, led the team of three that came to my shop on one of their road trips and calibrated and certified five surface plates for Randy Richard, Razor Ray, Mike Walton, and myself. They were totally professional, made sure that our plates met AA standards even though we were paying for A grade, and they were done with all our work in about an hour and a half or less. We were able to save a large amount of money by having the collaboration at one location, compared to each of us paying the travel fee and the minimum invoice amount. It was also a hell of a lot of fun, and Mike D. is a happy and talkative guy, getting it done, delivering more than was promised...
Thanks to the folks at Standridge and Precision Granite for letting the guys tour and video the place. I love seeing how this sort of thing is done. I'm pretty much retired now but seeing all that cool technology and the ultra-precision work made me want to become an apprentice there!
Looks like a great tour, it's good to see companies open their doors and show us all how it's done and how a quality product is made and what goes into it.
Warms my heart to see a genuine KDK 400 series toolpost on the Victor 16x30 Lathe... good toolposts, but they are unusual in the Central and Eastern US.
Hi Adam, The tour of Standridge Granite is 5 Star... Thank you Adam+ ALL that was involved. I have enjoyed all the video of the 2015 and 2016 summer bash..That Stan is one top notch host..... And all the TH-cam creators were so awsom..And all the sponsors hats off to them.. lots of very nice folks from all around the world....... I hope one year I can attend..... Once again THANKS to everyone involves in helping Stan to create such a great TH-cam sensation. M.K.S.
Thats it is a pity that there are so few movies and video about granite inspection plates and instruments, especially about how they are made. So many thanks for that tour!
Anytime we were getting visitors we took 2 days to clean up the shop!!! LMAO !!! I WAS A DIE MAKER and Surface grinder hand in the 60's - mid 70's. Then got into turrent lathe tooling sales!! Loved the machine shop experience!!
Adam please take this point as the most positive constructive criticism: Your camera work is excellent. The gimble has taken your videos to another level. The one thing I noticed though was the GoPro struggled when you were outside in the sun, trying to look into the work units, which were obviously darker. Now I don't know if that is a known flaw with go pros, if so fair enough. But I wonder which filter you were using on the day. I guess it was the circ polariser. As useful as that filter is, it's value for filming relies on it being adjusted correctly. Particularly when you are moving around. It's all to do with angle of the light source (sun) in relation to the camera and the subject. I think with experience you will find the polariser to be useful in the shop, cutting reflection on indicators and such, but for those vids where you're moving around a lot, the UV filter may be the best. Just some thoughts sir, all good will to ya.
Thank you very much to those who made this video. I was very curious about how granite plates are made. When I watched this video, I felt as if I had visited the factory. I was also very curious about the flat edge with the dial gages. I think there are many people wondering like me. If a video is made about it, I think it will be watched a lot.
I always find it super awkward watching factory tours when they walk into a room or next to a machine and the operator sort of half stops what they were doing but they don't talk to him/her. Not really the fault of the guests either because what do you say? It's always nice when the operator/worker opens up and breaks the ice!
I felt that way when I worked at Caterpillar. Somebody would take a tour group past on a little electric car, I felt like I was in a damn zoo. Then again, everybody at that plant was an endangered species, before they shut it down for costing too much (despite having the best quality marks of any Caterpillar large machine plant in the world).
I scrolled down to the comments because I thought I recognized him, glad to see this as the top comment. That guy is awesome, he seems very knowledgeable and (perhaps more importantly) quite passionate. Neat video Adam, keep it up man!
What is really cool is, it looked like in both the machine shops, most the machinist/operators there looked pretty young. Some people say that they worry about the machining trade not being past on to the next generation, but all the shops I've worked at or visited I see the opposite. Eager minds learning every bit they can.
Very cool! Thanks for posting this up. I've worked in stone and concrete at times in my career so it's interesting to see how other operations do their work.
Amazing stuff as always Adam. Really liked the granite cutters and all that raw granite! If you can get back there one day I'd be really interested to see the whole process of making a block for a table in more detail. The cutting; the blade, the machine, cutting the steps in the sides, the drilling. The finishing; the lapping, the lapping machine, the slurry, the polishing. The whole measurement and calibration and certification process. Being a toolmaker, I have a fair idea, but to see it and have it explained would be awesome.
Excellent video. I have seen these plates in many machines I write software for, funny to see how they are made in a very different environment from where they are used (clean rooms, labs, etc.)
i think they may be called radial arm drills, one had 3 or 4 sections, so a very long reach, someone call up Keith Rucker as something he needs to fill his shop with!
I'm glad to see the employees have, and wear, some nice quality masks and hearing protection. I worked for 1 day at a granite shop in Florida that had lousy worker safety. We were given, and expected to use, cheap-o painter's masks (with elastic band, about 20 cents each). No hearing protection. Much of the work was done dry, with dust everywhere. Once I discovered that the Company was under active investigation by OSHA for safety violations (and had already payed a fine or 3) I quit at the beginning of workday number 2. And also gave the owner/manager a bit of a lecture as well. The place was staffed by Mexicans, illegals or not, I don't' know. Maybe they didn't have any choice but the work there, but I sure had a choice.
I wonder if OSHA is needed in those kinds of situations. You obviously had the common sense to know that a 20 cent mask was not safe enough to keep your lungs healthy, so I’d think that any given worker there would/should know that their lungs are at risk. And given that risk, and the relatively inexpensive investment into buying your own proper mask and hearing protection, I’d say that those workers either chose not to keep themselves safe, or didn’t understand the risk. Hence, better education is all that’s needed in order for more people to keep themselves safe from harm, rather than more legislation and regulation.
cool. I think Tom L had that same guy up to certify his SP and he included some more detailed info from Standridge, IIRC. great complementary video in either direction
nice tour, nice stuff there , could you tell me what the plastic bags on the drill presses are for ? drip water on the work I would guess instead of a pump ? very cool place .. thanks
I love how you don't move the camera around too fast at any given moment. That's been a deal breaker for a lot of channels, if the camera moves around too much/fast it becomes permanently unwatchable to people that can't deal with that.
Nice video keeping an AA grade surface over time also requires work. I’ve seen these tables have there own foundation separated from the building(down-to bed rock).
Something about granite I saw, Rolls Royce have a hermatically sealed room where temprature and humidity are controlled to keep the granite perfectly flat no disstortion of any kind, jut something you might like to know, great watch Mr Booth thanks for sharing,
the things you see! talked to the guy who took care of everything in there... some amazing equipment in there, all gone now as it was sold off to a salvage yard along with some monster turning machines for the jet engine main shafts etc. big loss and so wastful by the germans.
for walking around filming , the camera mount really works, its like pro footage from the shoulder cam days, i admit i didnt like it when you demo'd it a couple of weeks back in your shop, perhaps technique also helps?
Hey Adam, I bet you got another taste of SoCal! I dig the "Technicolor" blue sky ! I bet that you were wearing shorts the whole time! ....Got a break from that Pensecola humidity (but it has its pluses). Hey, did you ever get to try out that restraunt by Malibu/SantaMonica... GLADSTONES!!!! It's a great restaurant with the best cocktails in town (?, ha ha ). Gladstones is on the "Bucket List" ...if you are ever in SoCal. Also, Neptunes Nest, a few miles up the road on PCH. A lot of peo;le (hot chicks) hang out there on the weekend and watch the parade of Japanese motorcyclists put on a wheelie show. It's wild!!! Stan's place is kinda "inland", so you gots to shift gears on what to do. Keith Fenner knows the digs: from Manhatten beach to Chula Vista.... gobs of shizzle do, see, eat,...
Another great video Adam. I've watched all of the videos posted about the Standridge tour and spot something I had forgotten about or didn't notice during the tour in every one of them. Standridge certainly is a first class operation and a great group of people. P.S. The lens on your camera makes me look fat. (-;
Very cool. I didn't really get why they seem to have so much metal working machinery, especially lathes. I can see they make their own tooling and carts, but I didn't see a lot of round metal parts. But I guess they wouldn't have the stuff if they didn't need it. Nice clean, well organized shop too. Thanks for the tour.
At minute 4.00 I see the guy adjusting the indicators; why would the indicators be hooked on a wooden board (the painted one) ? I know it is light for its span and it is handy to be moved by one guy instead of two, but wouldn't the wooden board be subject to torsion when the guy moves it back and forth ? I also suppose that bending/sagging is not an issue here.....
A question i have about natural granite, does it normalize or relax at all after cutting (esp the initial cut out of the quarry) and does it need time before the final cutting or grinding flat.
I could be wrong, it I'm fairly sure they talked about that in Stan's vid when he toured there some time back. I wouldn't dare attempt to remember the details, but I'm pretty sure it was mentioned. Might be worth checking out his vid?
+lazaglider Also Tom Liptons had this company come out and resurface his plates, they definitely talked about how atmosphere effects granite there, but I don't remember 8f they talked about cutting.
I do know they take that into consideration of there processing and finishing. They like to let the granite blocks season for about s year before they finish them to size. Also all the plates sold go to s normalizing and finishing process when purchased, the room we were in on video.
Wow. Great factory, they really know what they are doing, otherwise they would never get that grade of precision out of such an rough rawmaterieal. Thanks for the nice tour! ;)
That's the same kid, Mike, that calibrated and recertified Tom Lipton's plates at Ox. He's super passionate about all things granite; especially the vintage optical collimator. (I think it's a Bausch + Lomb.) That's really cool to see someone that is so passionate like that; especially a young kid.
love this guy. clearly loves his work. really great to see.
I thought it was a Hilger & Watts but who's keeping track. I especially liked the Keysight laser comment and that they prefer the autocollimator. I'm not sure what the price is on a Keysight interferometer these days, but back in the HP days it was easily a 10 grand kit, and they prefer primitive optics. Take that technology.
+skamego Oh man, I didn't remember. All I remembered was that it was an optics company whose name was a 2-surname combination. The first thing that came to mind was Bausch & Lomb. My bad.
+Andrew Delashaw it's these kind of conversations I have that make sure I don't have any friends.
13:32 Just wanted to mention Tom Lipton’s Standridge video with that guy, but Andrew Delashaw beat me to it. Cheers!
*Insurance Agent:* _"What sort of security system do you use to prevent theft of the granite plates?"_ 🤓📝
*Standridge:* _"Gravity."_ 👇😎
Mike D., your tour guide, led the team of three that came to my shop on one of their road trips and calibrated and certified five surface plates for Randy Richard, Razor Ray, Mike Walton, and myself. They were totally professional, made sure that our plates met AA standards even though we were paying for A grade, and they were done with all our work in about an hour and a half or less. We were able to save a large amount of money by having the collaboration at one location, compared to each of us paying the travel fee and the minimum invoice amount. It was also a hell of a lot of fun, and Mike D. is a happy and talkative guy, getting it done, delivering more than was promised...
Great to hear Bob!? Mike is a nice guy and very passionate about his work and the business.
What an impressive operation. So good to see that there is still industry like this this thrive in the US of A.
Thank you Adam for sharing this.
Thanks to the folks at Standridge and Precision Granite for letting the guys tour and video the place. I love seeing how this sort of thing is done. I'm pretty much retired now but seeing all that cool technology and the ultra-precision work made me want to become an apprentice there!
Looks like a great tour, it's good to see companies open their doors and show us all how it's done and how a quality product is made and what goes into it.
Great video Adam. Mike sure can talk fast cant he.
Best,
Tom
oxtoolco I enjoyed watching Mike lap your surface plate Tom - the passion you both showed made for great footage
Think he might have missed his true calling as an auctioneer...
Tutankhamun would of been very proud to have a tombstone made by them. So much precision. Thanks for the upload Adam
Warms my heart to see a genuine KDK 400 series toolpost on the Victor 16x30 Lathe... good toolposts, but they are unusual in the Central and Eastern US.
Adam it is an absolute amazement to see how other people work to such close tolerances when most stuff today is just made to be thrown out!
Your paying big $ For the accuracy!!
Hi Adam, The tour of Standridge Granite is 5 Star... Thank you Adam+ ALL that was involved. I have enjoyed all the video of the 2015 and 2016 summer bash..That Stan is one top notch host..... And all the TH-cam creators were so awsom..And all the sponsors hats off to them.. lots of very nice folks from all around the world....... I hope one year I can attend..... Once again THANKS to everyone involves in helping Stan to create such a great TH-cam sensation. M.K.S.
Thats it is a pity that there are so few movies and video about granite inspection plates and instruments, especially about how they are made. So many thanks for that tour!
Pride always shows through at every level when each area is as clean and set up like this. Impressive
Anytime we were getting visitors we took 2 days to clean up the shop!!! LMAO !!! I WAS A DIE MAKER and Surface grinder hand in the 60's - mid 70's. Then got into turrent lathe tooling sales!! Loved the machine shop experience!!
man the weird fuzzy spot in the center of the picture is fuggin my eyes
MotorsportsX feels like your right there was him in the sun
Thanks for mentioning that. I thought my glasses were screwed.
Lens needed cleaning.
Adam please take this point as the most positive constructive criticism: Your camera work is excellent. The gimble has taken your videos to another level. The one thing I noticed though was the GoPro struggled when you were outside in the sun, trying to look into the work units, which were obviously darker.
Now I don't know if that is a known flaw with go pros, if so fair enough. But I wonder which filter you were using on the day. I guess it was the circ polariser. As useful as that filter is, it's value for filming relies on it being adjusted correctly. Particularly when you are moving around. It's all to do with angle of the light source (sun) in relation to the camera and the subject.
I think with experience you will find the polariser to be useful in the shop, cutting reflection on indicators and such, but for those vids where you're moving around a lot, the UV filter may be the best.
Just some thoughts sir, all good will to ya.
Must be nice to have all your "clamping" done by gravity.
"What do you use for Work holding?"
"What do you mean, the work holds itself"
Amazing tour guide too from the looks of it.
Believe he goes all the way up to "11" holy cow. very energetic.
Thank you very much to those who made this video. I was very curious about how granite plates are made. When I watched this video, I felt as if I had visited the factory. I was also very curious about the flat edge with the dial gages. I think there are many people wondering like me. If a video is made about it, I think it will be watched a lot.
Wow what a special visit, there are very few places you could see this stuff. Thank you for sharing
That was IMPRESSIVE!!! Thanks Adam and thanks to Standridge for being part of it all and supporting the YT machinist creator movement!!
They bought their granite equipment at an auction in Egypt in the year 2200BC
Haha
Adam, It's fascinating how they make the plates. A big operation they have.
Thanks for the vid.
This Standridge plant is so tight and clean! Perfect flat seems to evoke a larger perfection.
Adam I enjoyed your video of the Standridge Granite facility, GREAT JOB!
Got a lot of heavy pieces around there! I would love to have a big granite plate in my new shop when I get it done.
Brian they will ship you one! Mention Bar Z and get a discount! 👍🏻
19:52 l need a few of those signs
I always find it super awkward watching factory tours when they walk into a room or next to a machine and the operator sort of half stops what they were doing but they don't talk to him/her. Not really the fault of the guests either because what do you say? It's always nice when the operator/worker opens up and breaks the ice!
I felt that way when I worked at Caterpillar. Somebody would take a tour group past on a little electric car, I felt like I was in a damn zoo. Then again, everybody at that plant was an endangered species, before they shut it down for costing too much (despite having the best quality marks of any Caterpillar large machine plant in the world).
@@SynchroScore I had a visiter that his job was to watch how I did what I was doing. He was literally in my face about 2' away.
I suspect any screw ups become tombstones for machinists when their time comes .
And when a monumental masons screws up it's a monumental error.
I believe if I'm not mistaken, the guy giving the tour at Standridge is the guy that went to Lipton's shop to calibrate his plates a while back.
Real neat video lot of work into something you just use and don't think of how it's made. Thanks Adam
Was that the same guy from the ox tools video?
yea it looks like him :D
Definitely 13:08
The gimbal mount is awesome! It turns some great videos into even greater ones!
Fascinating tour - thanks Adam. Lot of very desirable machinery.
That looks like a really sweet place to work, I love how they make the carts in house right there in the middle of everything.
You always take us to such cool places, Thanks
WOO HOO I finally caught up with all the video's. A great tour of the Standridge facility, always wondered how they made the surface plates.
I've used a few Stanridge plates, always interesting to see how things you use get made. Great tour, Adam!
The man on cloud 9, his happy place! Love it.
Isn't that the same guy who tested ox tools granite table flatness..?16:26
Yes sir.
I scrolled down to the comments because I thought I recognized him, glad to see this as the top comment. That guy is awesome, he seems very knowledgeable and (perhaps more importantly) quite passionate.
Neat video Adam, keep it up man!
I knew he looked familiar!
It was his voice that confirmed it for me.
Thanks, Adam. I wasn't able to do the tour, so it is great to see your video. Looks like a high quality place.
Thanks again for sharing.
Joe
I saw you droolin. Makes me want one even though I have no use for one.
What is really cool is, it looked like in both the machine shops, most the machinist/operators there looked pretty young. Some people say that they worry about the machining trade not being past on to the next generation, but all the shops I've worked at or visited I see the opposite. Eager minds learning every bit they can.
Great to see you guys enjoyed your tour, thanks for shooting and editing buddy.
Your camera lens looks like it was dirt right in the center. Nice video.
ditto!
Yessir it was. I didn't realize it when I got out of us truck and started filming. I normally always keep the lens clean.
Looks like a fun place to visit and a top-notch operation. I wonder what kind of wheels they use on that surface grinder near the end?
Wow, a Kysor Johnson band saw, havent seen one of those in a while, but they do last forever.
thanks adam for the tour, no doubt some places I will not see in person. appreciate it
Very cool! Thanks for posting this up. I've worked in stone and concrete at times in my career so it's interesting to see how other operations do their work.
Amazing stuff as always Adam. Really liked the granite cutters and all that raw granite! If you can get back there one day I'd be really interested to see the whole process of making a block for a table in more detail. The cutting; the blade, the machine, cutting the steps in the sides, the drilling. The finishing; the lapping, the lapping machine, the slurry, the polishing. The whole measurement and calibration and certification process.
Being a toolmaker, I have a fair idea, but to see it and have it explained would be awesome.
Excellent video. I have seen these plates in many machines I write software for, funny to see how they are made in a very different environment from where they are used (clean rooms, labs, etc.)
Wow. cutting stones for 27 years being a stone mason that was really intresting. Great video.
Very cool video , those big drills at about 22 minutes reminded me alot of the parking attachment You made, very cool.
i think they may be called radial arm drills, one had 3 or 4 sections, so a very long reach, someone call up Keith Rucker as something he needs to fill his shop with!
I'm used to calling them "broken arm" drills but I think they're classified as "articulated arm."
radial arm, but call things what you like, im a toolmaker and very often hear things called differently depending on the person
I'm glad to see the employees have, and wear, some nice quality masks and hearing protection. I worked for 1 day at a granite shop in Florida that had lousy worker safety. We were given, and expected to use, cheap-o painter's masks (with elastic band, about 20 cents each). No hearing protection. Much of the work was done dry, with dust everywhere. Once I discovered that the Company was under active investigation by OSHA for safety violations (and had already payed a fine or 3) I quit at the beginning of workday number 2. And also gave the owner/manager a bit of a lecture as well. The place was staffed by Mexicans, illegals or not, I don't' know. Maybe they didn't have any choice but the work there, but I sure had a choice.
Democrats... [Sigh]
I wonder if OSHA is needed in those kinds of situations. You obviously had the common sense to know that a 20 cent mask was not safe enough to keep your lungs healthy, so I’d think that any given worker there would/should know that their lungs are at risk. And given that risk, and the relatively inexpensive investment into buying your own proper mask and hearing protection, I’d say that those workers either chose not to keep themselves safe, or didn’t understand the risk. Hence, better education is all that’s needed in order for more people to keep themselves safe from harm, rather than more legislation and regulation.
@@davidswanson5669 reminds me of those “nightclubs” in SA in the 70ties “bring your own liquor.
So this is where machinist nerds pilgrimage to admire the source of their holy stones 😜
Very cool. Always wanted to see how this is done.
cool. I think Tom L had that same guy up to certify his SP and he included some more detailed info from Standridge, IIRC. great complementary video in either direction
Awesome/huge factory. Thanks for the tour!
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nice tour, nice stuff there , could you tell me what the plastic bags on the drill presses are for ? drip water on the work I would guess instead of a pump ? very cool place .. thanks
14:17 Is that the same guy that lapped Tom Lipton's plates a while ago?
Yep, that's him! 100% sure once he pulled out his telescope looking thing.
What is that called?
An Optical Collimator
meguinlia Thanks, with the name I have researched it a little bit, very cool device!
Very interesting video Adam. Is the Granite mined / quarried locally or is it imported?
Regards from Redruth
Arnold
it's impressive that they cab achieve that precision on such a massive scale.
Lots of TLC...
That michael deleon was in an oxtool video i watched last week. He was there to recertify a plate.
I love how you don't move the camera around too fast at any given moment. That's been a deal breaker for a lot of channels, if the camera moves around too much/fast it becomes permanently unwatchable to people that can't deal with that.
Adam, great video, but can you stand closer to the guide so we can hear him too?
Now I want an American surface plate...
Great video on the tour coverages, I really enjoyed the second tour video since we could not make it due to that traffic accident on the 210. 👍
Nice video keeping an AA grade surface over time also requires work. I’ve seen these tables have there own foundation separated from the building(down-to bed rock).
20:36 RIP my ears! Damn that high pitch just pierced my ears straight through.
The only time I've seen forklifts that big we're at a steel mill and there were ones even bigger there.
They're absolute monsters of a machine!
You should go to a big boatyard. th-cam.com/video/dedpbc_Q7Vs/w-d-xo.html
Something about granite I saw, Rolls Royce have a hermatically sealed room where temprature and humidity are controlled to keep the granite perfectly flat no disstortion of any kind, jut something you might like to know, great watch Mr Booth thanks for sharing,
you don't think of granite as something that is susceptible to a bit of temperature or humidity variation. The more you learn.....
the things you see! talked to the guy who took care of everything in there... some amazing equipment in there, all gone now as it was sold off to a salvage yard along with some monster turning machines for the jet engine main shafts etc. big loss and so wastful by the germans.
Nice tour. Keep on keeping on.
That is one big shop . . . . . . .
Thanks for the tour.
for walking around filming , the camera mount really works, its like pro footage from the shoulder cam days, i admit i didnt like it when you demo'd it a couple of weeks back in your shop, perhaps technique also helps?
Do they not have an issue when it is cold and raining, or is there an indoor area for the granite too?
Really interesting tour, nice work.
I just got a Granite Surface Plate, 36" x 48" x 5'' Grade for 80 bucks
Hey cool, I got a small plate for hobby stuff a couple weeks ago through McMaster, a grade B 12"*8", and it's from Standridge!
I think a lot of the people working those machines knew who you were on sight hehe.
Cool vidya!
Really like your channel! Its filled with all sorts of good knowledge! Keep it up man.
Hey Adam, I bet you got another taste of SoCal! I dig the "Technicolor" blue sky ! I bet that you were wearing shorts the whole time! ....Got a break from that Pensecola humidity (but it has its pluses). Hey, did you ever get to try out that restraunt by Malibu/SantaMonica... GLADSTONES!!!! It's a great restaurant with the best cocktails in town (?, ha ha ). Gladstones is on the "Bucket List" ...if you are ever in SoCal. Also, Neptunes Nest, a few miles up the road on PCH. A lot of peo;le (hot chicks) hang out there on the weekend and watch the parade of Japanese motorcyclists put on a wheelie show. It's wild!!! Stan's place is kinda "inland", so you gots to shift gears on what to do. Keith Fenner knows the digs: from Manhatten beach to Chula Vista.... gobs of shizzle do, see, eat,...
I wish you recorded speech separately over the video, because with all the machinery sounds its very hard to figure out what's being said
Thanks Adam, what an amazing shop.
Great tour! I wish I had a shop like that, lol
Очень интересное видео... так производят контрольные плиты из гранита и другой меритель. Великолепно!
Another great video Adam. I've watched all of the videos posted about the Standridge tour and spot something I had forgotten about or didn't notice during the tour in every one of them. Standridge certainly is a first class operation and a great group of people. P.S. The lens on your camera makes me look fat. (-;
The source of all precision and flatness.
Rubbing 3 rocks together.
That was just amazing to see I would really love to have been there to see that great video
That diamond-rope saw, did the guy say it ran at 25mph? The converter app I've got says it equates to 2200 feet/minute, a bit speedy, lol!
Speedy blade speed, but very slow feed rate, at 3 hrs for that job. I bet the finish of that cut would be really smooth already from the saw.
No I believe he said 65 miles per hour.
cool tour. man they sure had alot of maching tool lathes mills etc
great place to see,very cool Adam
Great tour + very well video'd! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Adam for the tour. I hope most of the Granite is going to USA manufacturing Companies.
Manny
Very cool. I didn't really get why they seem to have so much metal working machinery, especially lathes. I can see they make their own tooling and carts, but I didn't see a lot of round metal parts. But I guess they wouldn't have the stuff if they didn't need it.
Nice clean, well organized shop too.
Thanks for the tour.
@Abom79 What type of steadicam/gimbal are you using?
incredible, I am just a hobbyist but thanks for the ride along with the tour!
At minute 4.00 I see the guy adjusting the indicators; why would the indicators be hooked on a wooden board (the painted one) ? I know it is light for its span and it is handy to be moved by one guy instead of two, but wouldn't the wooden board be subject to torsion when the guy moves it back and forth ? I also suppose that bending/sagging is not an issue here.....
A question i have about natural granite, does it normalize or relax at all after cutting (esp the initial cut out of the quarry) and does it need time before the final cutting or grinding flat.
I could be wrong, it I'm fairly sure they talked about that in Stan's vid when he toured there some time back. I wouldn't dare attempt to remember the details, but I'm pretty sure it was mentioned. Might be worth checking out his vid?
+lazaglider Also Tom Liptons had this company come out and resurface his plates, they definitely talked about how atmosphere effects granite there, but I don't remember 8f they talked about cutting.
I do know they take that into consideration of there processing and finishing. They like to let the granite blocks season for about s year before they finish them to size. Also all the plates sold go to s normalizing and finishing process when purchased, the room we were in on video.
Wow. Great factory, they really know what they are doing, otherwise they would never get that grade of precision out of such an rough rawmaterieal. Thanks for the nice tour! ;)
Nice tour!
Very interesting companies Adam , Thanks for the share man , Thumbs up !
Pardon my ignorance, but what are these granite plates used for? Bases/foundations for machining equipment?
For measuring parts you set the part on the table and then you can measure any where on the plate it is flat
Roger that, thanks Boss!