As a mechanical engineer, I love seeing US businesses that are successful and growing. The staff at Mill Mechanical appear to be sharp, busy and professional. Hope they keep on growing their business and servicing US industry. Thanks Adam for the tour

I’m impressed that they can take older machinery like those lathes and modernize them

Adam, it's awesome how willing you are to share your knowledge and experience with others. That is the sign of a true Journeyman of his trade. Thanks for the great content.

For your automated subarc system you should convert over to 1000lb wire rolls in cardboard barrels. Your lathe bed is heavy enough to carry two barrels side by side so that when one is depleted your can reload fairly fast and then replace the empty barrel with a fresh. Your barrels wire will require a simple shop made decoiler to keep the wire from becoming tangled as it spools out. You can build a flux suction system using an air powered venturi vacuum that will recycle your flux back up to a storage hopper set up with a screen and magnets to pull out metallic particles as the flux flows by them and then use a blow system to jet the cleaned flux over to your subarc feed hopper so that you only top up your flux once or twice a shift. I set up a subarc for doing boilers this way years ago.

I am not a machinist, have no intention of ever becoming a machinist...but I fricking love these videos and giant machines.

Mill Mechanical was started to buy me Gatorade. Doug Massey (Guy in the red shirt at the end of the video)started Mill Mechanical while he worked for MRT as a salesman. I needed some Gatorade for my crew at AK Steel and I had no vendors who sold it. I asked Doug if he would buy it and sell it to me and MRT did not want to so he formed Mill Mechanical and from time to time he would buy stuff I could not get from an authorized vendor and then sell it to me. When he left MRT and went on his own, Mill Mechanical became a real machine shop! I still do business with Doug and the fab shop started with some orders he did for our Tube mill in Illinois.

Really nice video Adam, very interesting. You might consider doing a little consulting for the spray weld guys. They could use a tech rep like you to go out and newbies and help customers solve problems. With your clear, easy style, you would be a natural. IMHO

Kool beans by the time I get my spray welder system in hand I'll be ready to go I was trying to keep count this is your third or fourth demonstration at someone's shop plus the many times at your shop I can't wait to be able to add this to my tool chest. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for sharing Adam, that was a great job stopping by the machine shop In Ohio and teaching a demonstration on spray welding. Awesome job!! Fred.🙏🏻🙏🏻👍👍👏🏻👏🏻👋👋

that live center is toast

That is a nice shop with lots of good sized machines. Thanks for the tour!!

You’re an awesome friend for the things you do to help others ! God Bless !

We miss you workin' on the big, heavy stuff, too, Adam.

i could see a series of videos visiting places like this, doing big work, being really popular

Hey Adam unbelievable tour. Great equipment 👍 .You know your business ⭐. I love the big stuff. Whole lot of welding going on. 🔥 Have a good day.ken

Adam is surrounded by awesome machines, and don't forget the solid table, its a monster. Thanks for the tour

GREAT video! I enjoyed it immensely, the video imaging was some of the best, clearest I've seen, Adam! Keep up the good work!

Awesome shop. Big jobs and loads of tools for the job. Great video. Awesome weld build up. Thank you for sharing.

I’ve worked on big stuff and small stuff in my 45 year career as a machinist and retired as a tool maker. This video really brings back memories .

Dave, thank you for the tour. Very informative talk. Thanks for going there, Adam.

You could chuck my lathe up on the blue lathe and spin it. Haha

It's one thing to make accurate machinery, it's a whole keg of worms to maintain it as it was intended. Great episode, Abom.

Eutectic should put you on the payroll with all the training you've been doing lately.

Awesome job Adam. and a great shop and wow on the awesome weld table. THICK

That was interesting! A delight to see these Thumping Big Machines. I really appreciate that you both took the time and let us see this stuff.

When I was in college for my millwright course in 1979 we had a spray weld demo. So it's been around a long time... :-)

This was a cool tour & demo. Adam had a kid in a candy store look. Kudos to Big Boys & Bigger Toys.

Abom, I have used the Terodyne, often in shaft repair & I found after the bond cost I use a dry stainless brush to clean the black off before final coat, love this stuff!!!

Hi Adam, It is always good to see other workshops and there setups... Thank you. Take care. Paul,,

That lathe lamp got a bit cooked at 35:45. I think a more open frame lathe would have been better for this job, possibly with a more sacrificial tailstock?

What a great shop tour Adam and Abbey, its fascinating to see a person's career set out in a visual way, and Dave has every reason to be so proud of it. It is amazing Adam that Eutectic don't pay you a commission for each demo you do for them hint hint! Tony from Western Australia 🇦🇺

You do your videos very well. It's also nice when you include your wife in your endeavors. The very best to you and yours.

This shop is just a short drive from me.....made a few of those crane wheels myself and turned some of those same types of rolls....for AK Steel formally Armco Steel here in Middletown.

9:30 "The Boss is coming. Quick, hand me that broom!"

I have been watching some videos and I was thinking about investing in bitcoin, but still don't know where to start from

Thanks for taking us along on this field trip🤗🤗🤗

Nice!! Great shop and Abom size stuff, especially the table...:-)

Muy bueno tu programa Adam!! Que lindas herramientas me gusta mirar se aprende mucho. Y muy buena tu demostracion con la soldadura spray. Saludos desde Uruguay 🇺🇾🇺🇾🇺🇾

That is an amazing shop. Got a chance to tour ESCO Bucket plant in Oregon, this reminded me of it by scale of equipment. Their buckets are large enough to park a dump truck in. truly huge equipment to produce the end product. Thanks for sharing this Adam.

the rollers at 5:25 if im not mistaken were built in the uk by Bodes of leek Staffordshire they made alot of welding position equipment of all shapes and sizes

Great video. Working in a job shop like that is a privlage only the best get in

You should be official instructor from Eutectic.... That steel table is impressive.....👌

That's why you were not home today. Your way off in Ohio! Stopped by to say hi. I always enjoy the content of your videos.

Fun episode to watch. That is some BIG OLE METAL WORKING

i was sweating about that live center the whole time thinking man i hope thats one they wanna trash lol . You need that big ass Abom size table

Others go spray tanning when on holydays, Abom goes spray welding 🤣 Great shop tour and some very cool machines 👍🏽

Way cool, thank you, Adam!

Awesome tour! Reminds me of McNally Mfg. in Pittsburg, KS. It was a large shop focused on the coal industry. Had some huge VBMs.

Great shop tour. Thanks for sharing.

Great workshop guys, thanks 👌🤙🇬🇧

Always a joy and pleasure to watch.! Thank you all for sharing in this update.!

Machining weldments can get to be a real challenge! Have done many, but nothing as large as this shop makes.

I concur...that was impressive Adam.... Looks awesome!.

That's one nice lightsaber

Bravo Adam! In someone else's shop, on an unfamiliar lathe, with someone looking over your shoulder on a part that's a giant heat sink, put on a spray weld that machined well. Also pass on congrats to your hosts for manufacturing in the USA. Too often it's hard to get banks to work with you when you say you're not going to off-shore your machining. Even though FlexArm gets their tables from Spain, they still do a lot of work here. Investors also have been programmed not to invest in helping USA build things. I used to attend the CalTech Enterprise forum where small businesses would present their plans to a panel of experts, and even if you had the equipment, a family run business, and a Just-In-Time process the big put down was "You cannot manufacture in the USA - it's cheaper to send your equipment overseas and have the finished parts come back again by freighter ship." Good for you and your colleagues.

Adam this shop is doing what I use to do at a shop working my apprenticeship years. We hand welded rollers not quite as big but 5' plus 2' of journals we did the journals n roller then my job cutting it back to specs. Steel mills must use lots of these things . I have to have remachined a thousand of them. Besides milling the blocks on a boring mill run by overhead pulleys. I think it built the ark for Noah. Sure taught me how to keep tolerance on antique machines. NY open side planer shaper was about the newest piece. I miss those 72 hr weeks. Not

I love the video. Awesome shop tour and amazing to see that scale of projects. I would definitely move the computer for spray welding. not only it will keep the computer working, but also the worker will do a better job. Because the worker wont be worried about destroying the computer. Another thing I would worry about is the center support. maybe add some protection for that so it last a good long time.

I have visited Mill Mechanical a few years ago for a grill out, great people. Never work there but I have a buddy that did.

Hello~ Nice to meet you 👋 Thanks for sharing👍🥰 Wishing you stay safe & happy. God bless you 🙏🍀🤗💕

Great Walk About ,,Enjoyed!! Cheers!;-)!!

Great tour, enjoyed! Thanks.

I love your videos! Thank you for showing! - Yes, I enjoyed every time! Greetings from Dresden (Germany)!

Lots of machines etc. Very impressive. They even have a machine with a broom. It looks very human like.

Glad you visited. I live near Monroe and had no Idea this business existed.

@Abom79 YOU NEED THAT TABLE! and the V Blocks at 42.20, MASSIVE

Really enjoyed seeing this shop tour. Always happy to see a thriving shop

I can see the HD table but a grind on our face (@@)!! Great tour and nice to see Job Shop's still help our great country keep in motion,,Thx Adam for sharing. Bear

very cool tour.

What a great guy to give a tour! Very knowledgeable!

Thanks for sharing Adam. Very nice variety of work in that shop.

definitely Abom79-size stuff here. All the right stuff. Thanks Adam!

Great stuff. That was good of you to show him how you do that spray welding. I gotta say the parts you machined after spray welding looked much nicer than the one spray welded then cnc machined in this video. They’ll get their speeds and feeds figured out. Great video

Adam, you really fit into the heavy machine shop arena. Kinda miss the old videos when you were at Motion but it's better having your own shop.

Wow! The beating heart of America.

Holy moly I dig the fact that they're building that brace but how the hell do they transport it once it's done that thing's damn near a city block long 😵

That's so strange, I see the size of your shop and then I see the size of that operation....... and you're teaching them? Very, very impressive. I think the first video I watched of you was spray welding. Done was totally different with two separate nozzles nothing like that space age thing you were using here. Love watching the stuff that you're able to do. 👍

Yes indeed that table is 1 hell of a chunk of iron... THE BEAST....

Very informative and enjoyable show but I would not use that lathe for spray weld build up. That machine will be toast pun intended lol. Really good show.

When they say are set up table doesn't move they really really mean it. That is a whole lot of gravity for a table.

This is a serious shop thanks

WOW!!!!….great video…thanks for sharing

Thanks, guys well pleased!

I really enjoyed this video! Thank you!

The scale of machining there is huge! That's a serious weldment going on, half inch fillet everywhere takes a long time. I was a bit surprised they can mix fluxcore and metalcore. That's a major no-no at the shop I work for.

That was a great video i can't get over that table one hunk of metal.

Another 5 part series

I sure hope we get to see a quarter inch cut and the chip it produces one day !!

You can’t hide behind those glasses Dave…. we all know it’s you superman!

Not to be critical, but for the spraying , it looked like it was firmly in the chuck, so the center and tail stock could have been moved away and covered IMHO

That mill had stairs up the the table. That's how you know it's a monster.

Cool shop and great video!

I love your shop tour videos!

you still in the area ? i am in NEW YORK , just over the PA state line off route 20 ..good to see you stopping at other shops ... keep up the great videos ..

Get yer Spray Weld T-shirts! Killer machine shop tour. Thanks. ✌

KZfaq views of the big stuff at your job with Motion were huge @Abom79 :-)

Holy crap, that is some big boy stuff. I'd sure be worried about torching the CNC control panel! Not just flame, but radiated heat and stray particles all over. They need to get a crappy old all-manual old school lathe to blast that powder.

Impressive!!!! I want that table!!!!! What are the economics of building up parts with the flame spray system? Would it be practical to, say, build up Cat rollers?

Some of that equipment reminds me of a time I did overhead door service work at Hitachi Canada where they made the biggest turbine engines I'm shur ever used primarily to run generators for monster power needs all over the world. They had a lathe that was 12' across and a hudge tool gantry. And I was there when the where prepping the footings for a lathe that was going to be twice the size the foundation for that was to the top of concrete cassones where 15' to 20' 3' diameter below floor level they told ,e the shop allows was under 8.5 acres of roof 120' to the roof eave. And the floor was clean enugh to eat off of. Start of every shift they had Japanese music to lisen to wile every body subcontractors doing service work included would do strecheing warm up befor you did any work. Sory for my rambling very cool place to see

Very nice video thanks for sharing.

That is an impressive shop.