30 Years a Machine Builder at Kearney & Trecker: Ron Grundy
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- 30 Years a Machine
Builder at Kearney &
Trecker: Ron Grundy
The Story of Ron Grundy who spent 30 years working for K&T as machine builder and rebuilder.
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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!
Is he around 80? He looks maybe 60.
@@michael931 He's 79.
got my reply to work computer dunce ...thanks for the comment
@@rongrundy5136 you actually look like you could be in your 50's. Is scraping the key to long life? Or cutting oil? :)
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.
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
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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.
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...
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 !
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.
Scraping the ways of a machine is a lost artform. Thank you for filming this interview!
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
thanks Keith for making our machines more loved
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.
Way to represent Ron Grundy! Miss working with the gang at K&T!!! "Always good machines!"
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.
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 TH-cam 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!
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.
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
Our shop still has four k&t mills running daily. Incredible machines and an incredible story. Thank you so much for sharing.
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
That was a real pleasure to watch. Thanks Ron and Keith.
you guys are why this country was great, thank you
Thank you for documenting his wealth of knowledge.
Thank you Ron for sharing your story's!
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
Please do more interviews like this if you get a chance. Absolutely love interviews like this! 👍
Thank you for posting.
Fascinating! Thanks Ron and Keith for putting this together!
Fabulous interview. Thank you both.
Thanks so much for this great interview.
Thank you for sharing. Enjoyed.
Thank you both for taking the time for this interview.
Awesome interview. Thanks, Ron!
Great interview! Thank you Keith
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 .
Really great interview, Ron and Keith! This is quite a service you’ve done for the community to publish this.
Great video one of the best I've seen on TH-cam. Thank you for the content you put up.
That was a great interview Keith, I enjoyed it a lot.
Very interesting interview Keith. So good to hear old experiences first hand. And thanks Ron Grundy for sharing!
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.
Fantastic video! I love listening to the old timers about the companies they worked for.
That was an enjoyable interview! Thanks Keith and Ron
What a great interview. Love the stories!
Great interview Keith. Thanks for sharing.
Fantastic thank you
What a great opportunity to hear someone with so much knowledge and ability.
Wonderful - thank you Keith and Ron.
Thank you for sharing. Makes me want to find a model 1 or 2 now for my small hobby shop more than ever!
What a fantastic interview Keith! Well done.
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
Wonderful video Keith, thanks Ron Grundy for all your Navy and K&T service......
Most interesting, really enjoyed.
an excellent interview thank you
Very interesting interview, thank you.
thank you
Love listening to stories from these old guys. so much knowledge and insight. I could have listened to him for hours!
Thank you for sharing his wisdom with us.
Excellent, thanks.
Thank you & Ron
An excellent interesting interview. Thanks to you both.
What a wonderful interview,I could listen and engage with Ron Grundy all day long,thanks Keith for posting.🤗😎🤗😎
Thank you Keith and Ron. Very enjoyable to listen to the history of these great machines
Very interesting to listen to Ron, thanks Keith
Yall are doing an amazing job of preserving the history of technology. THANK YOU.
Fascinating discussion. Thanks for doing sharing!
Really great interview, Keith. Somewhat saddening because of the nature of competition and world economics, but great history lesson none the less.
Very enjoyable, thank you
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"
Fascinating Keith, absolutely fascinating, thanks for sharing.
More like this! Thanks both of you
Lennart in Sweden
Great video!
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)
thank you for your SERVIce
Great Video!
We have a Milwaukee matic IIIb NC. We retrofit it and still use it today. Amazing machine.
Not just a treat for you Keith, if that is not a treat for every one I don't know what is. Enjoyed that one a lot.
Fun to hear the history Thanks
Boy am I glad to see this video , I work for a machine dealer one day a week repairing machines . I started working on K & T 3CH trying to remove the front cover , I have it puled out about 1/2in. and cant figure out what is keeping it from coming off . Going to send MR. Grundy an email . I'm sure he is going to be getting a lot of people asking questions . Finding people like Ron is very hard to find , thanks for the video Keith
If he ever answers his email
Two thumbs up for that one guys! Really enjoyed it thank you!
Keith - Great interview. Ron - Very nice for you to share your experiences and knowledge of KT manufactured equipment.
My father and my uncle did a lot of business with you guys and I think at one time my uncle worked for K &T. That was a great interview and it was very nice to meet you...
Thanks, Ron. Thanks, Keith.
Wow! What a great guy Ron is!!! This was a wonderful history lesson. Great video!
This is a delightful presentation. Thanks to you both ! The free World owes a massive thank you to American tooling.
Great episode!
Good stuff. One of those guys you could talk with for hours and hours. So much irreplaceable knowledge in that man’s head.
WONDERFUL!
Really loved the video what a great talent!!
Excellent! Important and interesting history. One of the best ever episodes. Thank you very much Messrs. Grundy and Rucker for sharing.
Great stuff. A wealth of knowledge.
Thanks for the fantastic story of this man and the company he worked for.
True history, like wine, is to be savored. Thanks to Ron and of course Keith, for sharing memories... great history.
What a wonderful story and a tremendous source of history. Outstanding Keith.
Mr. Grundy, thank you for your service and thank you for your time. You sir, are a well spoken gentlemen. I enjoyed your stories. Thank you, Keith for sharing Mr. Grundy with us.
Facinating History lesson !!!
Thank you, Keith, for the interview with Mr. Grundy. My Grundy has a wealth of knowledge that needs to be preserved. I look forward to doing business with him in keeping my K&T 2CHL running. And thank you also for preserving the archives on these and other machines at Vintage Machinery. More videos with interviews of these machine building and designing veterans would certainly be appreciated.
Great interview Keith.
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.
The skilled trades are to be greatly admired.
Great episode! Love hearing stories from the employees of old America machine manufacturers
Awesome video!