We take you through RLM Industries to show this outrageously complex process. Often times there are shapes that are impractical to machine economically and this is the only sensible option. Follow us as we show you why.
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@theslimeylimey8 жыл бұрын
Excellent video thank you Don and RLM too for being such gracious and friendly hosts.
@ChunkyMonkaayyy7 жыл бұрын
That was really awesome of RLM to go through the entire process with YOUR part, rather than just showing random ones. Made watching this soo easy to following along. Class act
@jcims8 жыл бұрын
This was awesome!!! Thanks for taking the time to put this together, and thanks to the folks at RLM for giving us an up close and personal look at this process.
@ellieprice33968 жыл бұрын
Thanks Don. What a great way to educate your audience in the investment casting process. I'm an experienced machinist and tool maker and still learning new stuff every day, especially from your videos. WOW...I can't get over the man picking up the 1800 degree casting with his insulated gloved hands. There's got to be a good reason a robot isn't used for that.
@NakedMachinist8 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing. Fascinating process. Loved the tour.
@Mongoman-oq9bq8 жыл бұрын
Amazing Don . Really enjoyable tour . What really struck me was the amount of power and energy required to produce such a small item that one wouldn't normally give a second thought to . Big thanks to Mr Murphy and staff for the look around .
@SuburbanToolInc8 жыл бұрын
+raymond sinnott They were all great and very well organized when we shot it. We thought Jim was going to either melt or drown in his own sweat when those ovens opened. Thanks for watching.
@xavytex8 жыл бұрын
Thank you for posting this video, a very interesting one ! This process is very similar to metal prosthetic teeth fabrication. The dental technician makes models out of wax. They are arranged in a tree-like fashion. Then the tree is embedded in plaster Paris. Then this mold is placed in a oven upside down to drain the wax, then it is placed in a centrifugal machine and molten metal is poured.
@pierresgarage26878 жыл бұрын
GREAT VIDEO....!!!! This is one rare time where the whole process is shown from A to Z very clearly... Thanks again, if you got more like this just go ahead and I'll be there to enjoy.... Pierre
@SuburbanToolInc8 жыл бұрын
+pierre beaudry We will have more for sure.
@ralphshepard2675 жыл бұрын
Fascinating! I've been retired from manufacturing for 15 years and enjoyed the refresher course. Thanks
@subinperingave97775 жыл бұрын
Hi...you were working in investment casting?
@subinperingave97775 жыл бұрын
I've a doubt in this process..could you pls answer it ?
@chrisjohnson41652 жыл бұрын
I really enjoyed that, thanks. I actually learned the lost wax process at school in the 70s, for gold and silver using plaster instead of ceramics. This of course is on a grand scale. The shot peening is a great way to prevent stress fractures as well.
@itsmebingo6 жыл бұрын
Love the videos. I have immense respect for a man like yourself getting out into the shop and spending time with operators! I hope to see this kind of positive outlook spread across all the shops who view your work!
@Watchyn_Yarwood8 жыл бұрын
An incredibly interesting video! Please keep your "Field Trips" coming!
@SuburbanToolInc8 жыл бұрын
+William Garrett Thanks for watching. We will have more coming.
@metalmogul46918 жыл бұрын
Well that was just facinating, so facinating. The process was all revealed, every step. Don Bailey is going to become famous, no just for Suburban Tool but for doing videos of how some of his product are made and who actually makes it. Some of the worlds most skilled people will learn something from this. Quality certainly went into this part. Did I say this was facinating, no, incredibly facinating. One of your best videos!
@SuburbanToolInc8 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much for your comments were going to work hard to make sure to keep our videos to the level of your expectations. Thank you again.
@MrShobar8 жыл бұрын
Fabulous field trip, Don. Extremely interesting. Many thanks.
@dicelabiblia74613 жыл бұрын
Great video, great info, Chris Basham the Army vet, thank you for your service.
@SuburbanToolInc3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for watching!
@k5at8 жыл бұрын
Thanks Don and Jim for the great video.
@bobbyepps13565 жыл бұрын
This is the best day I have ever spent on KZfaq now.
@awhs19648 жыл бұрын
Great tour, Don. That's the cleanest foundry I've ever seen. Tom
@BrokenRRT8 жыл бұрын
Great video! Thanks for making and sharing! Thanks to all the hard working American folks at the foundry!
@jaimevega43708 жыл бұрын
Excellent documentary, very well made and narrated. I enjoyed it very much. Thanks for taking the time and trouble to bring this videos to us.
@Zonkotron8 жыл бұрын
Man, that friction saw is lovely.
@willywgb8 жыл бұрын
Great video. I love any type of metal casting and this video is one of the best I have seen. RLM have some wonderful people working for them. Thank you Don, Jim and RLM for taking the time to make this video.Looking forward to your next field trip. CheersWilly
@RRaucina4 жыл бұрын
Great work! Here in California, most all schools sold off the metal and wood shops and installed computer "labs". As a manufacturer that has hired many hundreds of younger workers, I have to be the school teacher for the mechanically inept. Look at the German, Polish, Czech and Slovak education system - they have a strict guild sort of education process, and the graduates or apprentices make their metal working industry some of the best on earth. Perhaps 1 in ten of the people I hire have a natural skill set and passion for metal or woodworking. The other nine will walk into a telephone pole holding their "smart" phones.
@daa34174 жыл бұрын
Thankfully many areas still have vocational programs, my work there got me my first job with Uncle Sam before even graduating high school.
@vicpatton52868 жыл бұрын
wonderful video, educational in the extreme. thank you for the time you and the crew spend in doing these. very much appreciated!
@ranjith46132 жыл бұрын
I like the way he encourage the workers/employees...
@f350ca8 жыл бұрын
Another incredible video Don. I look forward to your weekly instalments. Thanks
@SquidoftheD5 жыл бұрын
Very interesting, so glad to see you are able to use an American company to produce your parts. If we all didnt mind paying a few cents more it would have such a positive impact on our indervidual home countrys economics. Dont be fooled by price everyone if you want consistent quality look at your home countrys capabilities before giving your hard earned away. If we all get on board we can rejuvenate our countrys manufacturing sector. Your helping the guy next door. Cheers
@theonlybuzz19695 жыл бұрын
Tom Kelly same goes for all of the countries in the world, us brits love decent quality and exceptional service life, if it has “made in the USA 🇺🇸 “ or made in England 🏴 or later ones made in Britain .. I have tooling that 30 years and a couple of them are over 50yrs old. Still would perform today than cheap imported version from other countries with cheap labour like China etc.
@random-kc8gx4 жыл бұрын
Blown away by the finish, we do regular greensand casting, but this is phenomenal! And thanks for the great tour, great facility and thanks Don for talking over the steps involved. Casting is one hell of a complicated process, from liquid metal chemistry to parts dimensional stability, it takes focus and great effort!
@intagliode8 жыл бұрын
Amazing walkthrough video. Its great to see a product from start to finish. Keep up the great work!
@giuliobuccini2088 жыл бұрын
Fascinating. Thanks for the video!
@darrenanton28988 жыл бұрын
Dam Good Video! Need More of them!!
@peterspence51968 жыл бұрын
Don, You weren't wrong! a very interesting video on how investment casting is done. I did a couple of years in a conventional foundry in the early 80's machining some of the castings they made, but I knew nothing about this method which the company I work with now uses. We make mine dewatering pumps & our impellers & volutes are done now this way. Thanks for the lesson !!!
@pentachronic5 жыл бұрын
That was a treat to watch. It looks like the RLM guys n gals are all very professional and proud of their work. Looks like a family from this side of the screen. Thanks for sharing and educating us on the effort that goes into this process.
@pauljones38668 жыл бұрын
Don, Excellent video with all the details! Many years ago while in college, I took a class in hands-on casting from the Mechanical Engineering Dept. at the University of Washington and the best part was our field trips to foundries. Casting is a fascinating process with lot of quality control at every step. I am looking forward to seeing more of your field trip episodes. Thank you, Paul
@donfoster18328 жыл бұрын
Excellent video. Thanks so much for putting it together. I really enjoy videos that take you step by step through a production process.
@SuburbanToolInc8 жыл бұрын
+Don Foster This video will really give you a good sense of what is involved in this process and the high level of quality that can be produced.
@lmned6 жыл бұрын
More than a manual a real life manufacturing process. A real tour in an amazing manufacturing shop. Congratulations and many thanks for your effort and the final product. You did a very, very good job.
@B33kay3 жыл бұрын
Five years later, I enjoyed it now I have a clear understanding of the whole process of investment casting.
@SuburbanToolInc3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for watching.
@carver34198 жыл бұрын
Great show! I took jewelry making courses in high school in 1951 and 1952, and we did lost wax casting (of silver) on a far, far smaller scale, but it was fun. I was also impressed by the folks that worked at RLM - clearly, they take enormous pride in their work.
@SuburbanToolInc8 жыл бұрын
+carver3419 They do and they were all great. Thanks for watching.
@duobob8 жыл бұрын
+carver3419 Lots of jewelry (and other stuff) is made by investment casting using the lost wax process. Just not so dramatically...
@sherifowolabi65104 жыл бұрын
Really appreciate your efforts showing us the E2E Process of Investment Castings. My Dad had a foundry which we do grey Castings seeing this gives me goosebumps as it makes massive production easy and I'm really fired up to starting an IC system in Nigeria
@Ujeb088 жыл бұрын
This was the best investment casting video I ever saw! Thank you!
@xull1x1238 жыл бұрын
Awesome video. Don you are a genuine person with excellent social skills.
@steamerpowered7 жыл бұрын
Wow! Just amazing the level of attention and detail that goes into a simple part. Great video Don! Keep 'em coming!
@SuburbanToolInc7 жыл бұрын
It's pretty crazy what goes into it! Thanks again for watching.
@KellerDidThat6 жыл бұрын
Ol' Don's a little on the touchy-feely side. You can't do that stuff these days Don.
@jimwalsh27928 жыл бұрын
Brilliant video on a subject I've always wanted to know more about. Keep up the great work. Really appreciate your efforts.
@dumyjobby2 жыл бұрын
that is such a beautiful and complex job. the parts come out reallly beautiful. congratulation to all the people working there
@stickytwat8 жыл бұрын
Love the enthusiasm from the presenter, all very Inspiring thanks.
@ChainNut8 жыл бұрын
Sweet tour !!! Thanks Don
@wayned42718 жыл бұрын
Great video, thanks for sharing. I've been making investment molds since the mid 70's. Spent about 13 years in an investment foundry as a mold maker just as CNC's were introduced. Great experience. Still make the molds today in my own shop using some of Suburban tools BTW. Most foundries today are struggling finding tool makers and process engineers because of the challenges. The Lost Wax casting process is an art combined with science. It's been around for thousands of years but only in the past 60 years has it been taken to the levels we see today. The parts they can cast are simply amazing. From gun frames to jet engine blades to compressor housings with some weighing 100's of pounds to as little as a few ounces.
@aryesegal19888 жыл бұрын
How can yu not love this, Don? I thank you so much for sharing that with us. Thank you! :)
@SuburbanToolInc8 жыл бұрын
+aryesegal1988 We loved shooting this. It was an eye opener for sure.
@Eagle0312658 жыл бұрын
Don, thank you very much for your effort to show us a lot of interesting information you have provided to us. I´m one of your fans and want to thank you for your endeavor of keeping us up to date. Greetings from Costa Rica, Central America. Alberto A. Corrales/General Manager at Eagle Services International / Attending the Medical Industry.
@SuburbanToolInc8 жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching, and I appreciate the kind comment.
@phillip75038 жыл бұрын
all of your videos are the very best on the Internet. .. all of you should be extremely happy about it... !!!! :)
@clarkeeasterling32256 жыл бұрын
Most informative investment video I have found on KZfaq, thankyou👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
@markkrick86028 жыл бұрын
Great tour, I've done lost wax for jewelry, and I'm currently in the process of bringing lost wax to sixth grade tech ed, just a wee bit smaller scale ; )
@usmcretired21128 жыл бұрын
Great information. AND Awesome show of respect for a Veteran at the 36 minute mark....Thanks for this.
@timmer9lives8 жыл бұрын
Totally Agree....Just Awesome video of Investment Casting. Impressive company.
@arty17998 жыл бұрын
Outstanding video!! Thank you sir.
@usatoolengineer8 жыл бұрын
Great Video of the process- Very impressed Great team making great parts.
@koanarid2 жыл бұрын
Amazing video you got a new subscriber. who else is here for a school project?😀
@HighGear74452 жыл бұрын
Had some inkling of the process but never imagined it was so involved. Ruger firearms has been heavy in investment castings for many decades and it helped them price there product more competitively.
@azlinadzir78467 жыл бұрын
Thx so much Don, Jim and of course Marty & team at RLM. Very informative. An eye opener! Coming from a high pressure diecasting co, i find that investment casting is much more tedious & complex. Im sure many people confused by the name investment itself. I wonder.... 1- Marty will find it a major risk if his skilled man fall sick or even leave the co. How will he mitigate that? 2- Looks like many dangerous processes. Can he still reduce human involvement? 3- Marty, how do u determine the distance between each waxed part to be "glued" to the tree/sprue. What is the max qty per tree? So sorry Jim, looks like more questions for Marty than to u. Anyway, really appreciate ur video. By the way, im from Malaysia, running a diecasting & machining co here and did spent 6 yrs studied in Detroit & Chicago in the 80s. USA is a great country. Tqsm.
@richardgraham654 жыл бұрын
The staged sincerity is overwhelming, the high fives, it makes me wretch!
@deanrobert86744 жыл бұрын
Yes Came across extremely awkward, informative but awkward.
@rogerdale658 жыл бұрын
Wow, that was very interesting, amazing, the actual simplicity and at the same time complex process. Isn't that also called the lost wax process? Keep up the interesting work and videos. Us Ole Fogies can use all the education we can get!!!! Never too old to learn some tid bit!! Thank You!!!!
@SuburbanToolInc8 жыл бұрын
+roger hunt yes, you are correct.
@HemiRod238 жыл бұрын
Excellent field trip! Very educational, and great people!
@MrEh58 жыл бұрын
Good old fashioned sense of humor. Great stuff!
@agstechnicalsupport4 жыл бұрын
A lovely video on metal investment casting. Obviously a great plant where this was shot. This video summarizes the basics of the investment casting process which is one of the best and oldest techniques in manufacturing intrinsic, detailed & complex precision metal parts and components as well as finished products in reasonably large quantity, fast and near-net-shape. With near-net-shape we mean initial production of the item is very close to the final (net) shape, reducing the need for surface finishing. Some parts that are complex are hard to machine and investment casting is a good fit for making them. No big mold fees nor weeks of mold machining times are involved as in die casting. Therefore under some circumstances, investment casting is preferred to metal die casting, because you can have your parts sooner and in lower quantities which is prohibitively expensive if die casting is used for low quantity. The technique is called investment casting, because the ceramic mold is "sacrificed" or "invested" during the casting process. Another name for investment casting is "lost wax casting", because the wax is heated and removed from inside the shell prior to pouring in the metal. Thank you to all those for producing and posting such a valuable resource. You may visit our KZfaq channel by clicking our logo on the left above for other manufacturing related videos and our subscriptions which contain similar manufacturing and technology related material.
@verkauf93103 жыл бұрын
Very informative, thanks for this vid. Watching from 🇿🇦 South Africa
@SuburbanToolInc3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for watching!
@patrickwalls14074 жыл бұрын
the wax and coating was really a interesting process that made a lot of sense for cost reduction while keeping quality up. smart company thanks for sharing.
@Gkuljian8 жыл бұрын
What a production. Lots of good stuff in there.
@larrysperling88018 жыл бұрын
great video, reminds me of my days in the westinghouse air brake foundry
@nineringsh8 жыл бұрын
Wow, excellent video!
@southjerseysound73408 жыл бұрын
Once again another great video.I really think your channel is underrated as far as machine work goes.I dont quite get it because you guys are extremely informative and passionate about what you do.I guess some folks just want to stare at a lathe making chips vs actually learning...........Who knows lol.But please keep up the great work. One thing thing I need to add though is PLEASE relax and have a little more faith in your cameraman.He produces some of the most professional videos that I've seen on KZfaq and the quality of his work is in the realm of a studio production.As a business owner myself I know it can be hard to let go at times.But believe me when I say you have the right man doing the job.There's no need to try and manage him while you are on camera.I realize you're excited and would hate for him to miss a shot of a important step.But every time you direct him to get a shot ,he's already seamlessly panned and zoomed in to get it ;)
@SuburbanToolInc7 жыл бұрын
You can help us become more popular! Share our videos with your friends. Again, thanks for the support and for watching.
@EverettWilson8 жыл бұрын
I didn't expect something like this at all. Thanks, everyone at Suburban Tool!
@JeffreyVastine8 жыл бұрын
Great video Don!
@JigilJigil3 жыл бұрын
Excellent video, I like how he asks about almost every detail.
@SuburbanToolInc3 жыл бұрын
Glad you liked it!
@rcwarship8 жыл бұрын
Wonderful video, thank you so much for sharing, I really appreciate it.
@hebrewhammer10008 жыл бұрын
Fantastic video! thank you for all of the effort you put into it.
@dunkelheit8438 жыл бұрын
hey, I just found your channel and i really love these field trips you do, very persional touch and I defenetly had plenty of good laughts with you, keep it up.
@pfrieden18 жыл бұрын
This was really interesting. I've seen the 5 minute version on shows like How It's Made, but this showed a lot more detail. Did anybody else notice the melted heat sink on the motor of the cutoff grinder? :)
@SuburbanToolInc8 жыл бұрын
+Paul Frieden We went back and forth on the length of this video. In the end we decided that the content was very important to get a true feel for all that is involved in this process. Thanks for watching.
@dougankrum33288 жыл бұрын
+Paul Frieden ...Well....I had to go back and look, could be the motor housing is cast aluminum, or perhaps is just eroded by the hot abrasive sparks.... Some years ago, I had a 1 man welding shop, 24" cut-off saw similar to this (Quijada)...the wheel/blade guard was cast aluminum and held up pretty well, but I did make as sort of 'spark-catcher' for behind the cut to keep the shop a bit cleaner, attached to the bottom of guard....and the motor was on top instead of behind like this one. Still....abrasive chop-saws are messy....
@bcbloc028 жыл бұрын
This was an awesome video. Seeing the process from start to finish is always fun. I am surprised they do the foundry work by hand though. That furnace better be doing some work, looks like by the label just to run one shift it would cost about $5000/month in electric alone.
@TheQuantumFreak7 жыл бұрын
Awesome video. It is always a pleasure to learn new things from you guys.
@curvs4me4 жыл бұрын
That investment casting makes one beautiful piece! Sand casting can't touch it. Even die casting will have flash, that comes out as a finished product. I can definitely see the value, especially when you can have a process constantly in motion. It's about 20-25 minutes of labor for a huge batch of parts. The production time is longer, but it doesn't involve man hours. The pieces are handled briefly.
@MustyCann7 жыл бұрын
Awesome video.Huge Thanks for all people involved.
@SuburbanToolInc7 жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching!
@terjegjerstad96929 ай бұрын
Thank's a lot for the trip. I love it. Very interesting to see the whole prosess 😍🇧🇻
@SuburbanToolInc9 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it!
@FireGodSpeed2 жыл бұрын
Dang i work in a faundry (i make and assemble the molds- made out of steel) Never seen it done this way but looks amazing We basically only do cast iron (A big Mold comes out to around 800kg/ 1760Lbs x2 because top and bottom ) The baseplate alone has 350KG without anything assambled :P
@mikeklevgard61838 жыл бұрын
great field trip don,, as a truckdriver i get to look in the back door from the loading docks and always wonder the procces a part taks,,, thanks again great vidio
@prashanthkumar35295 жыл бұрын
It's very detailed videos hats of u man
@Sandstroem828 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing this. An awesome video!
@SuburbanToolInc8 жыл бұрын
Your welcome
@NSResponder8 жыл бұрын
Pretty wild seeing the mold glow when the steel went in. I always assumed that you'd bury the ceramic mold in sand before casting for additional support and safety in case of a leak. -jcr
@theradarguy8 жыл бұрын
Better than PBS! Thanks, Won. Already anxious for the next video.
@mannyrtc6 жыл бұрын
Great job, Mr Don- we appreciated your drive to manufacturing...
@SuburbanToolInc6 жыл бұрын
Thanks for your comment.
@lightsun3702 жыл бұрын
Awesome video
@seeknowcast17293 жыл бұрын
it's very detail and we are in the same fields.
@squensler8 жыл бұрын
Great video; If RLM has any problems with employees, for punishment, they could make them work in the ceramic casting removal department.
@allsortsofinterests18 жыл бұрын
Outstanding!!
@christianpatton1422 жыл бұрын
The foundry can be an exciting place.
@GuyFawkes9118 жыл бұрын
Hello Mr Baley love your videos. could you make one for the hobbyist what you need to have in order to make your own tools. That would be really great
@markkrantz1516 Жыл бұрын
That was awesome , good to see people working ! Go USA,
@SuburbanToolInc Жыл бұрын
Thanks 👍
@neilw2O7 жыл бұрын
Great video! Hmmm, might try the coating on one of my 3D prints, just a but longer to burn it out of the coating.
@joshua432148 жыл бұрын
Best field trip yet!
@TTBBC6 жыл бұрын
Amazing process thank you for sharing like the channel keep up the good work.