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- čas přidán 12. 07. 2016
- This video is about a tour we were given at Standridge Granite and Precision Granite during the weekend of the Bar Z Bash 2016. Standridge makes a great product and guarantees there granite plates to be a Grade A or higher! They will custom make any size you want.
Mention Bar Z Industrial when ordering from them to receive your 15% off! standridgegranite.com/
*Insurance Agent:* _"What sort of security system do you use to prevent theft of the granite plates?"_ 🤓📝
*Standridge:* _"Gravity."_ 👇😎
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!
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.
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.
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!
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
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.
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!
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!!
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"
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.
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.
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.
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 CZcams 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 CZcams sensation. M.K.S.
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.
Wow what a special visit, there are very few places you could see this stuff. Thank you for sharing
This Standridge plant is so tight and clean! Perfect flat seems to evoke a larger perfection.
Adam, It's fascinating how they make the plates. A big operation they have.
Thanks for the vid.
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.
That was IMPRESSIVE!!! Thanks Adam and thanks to Standridge for being part of it all and supporting the YT machinist creator movement!!
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!!
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.
Real neat video lot of work into something you just use and don't think of how it's made. Thanks Adam
Adam I enjoyed your video of the Standridge Granite facility, GREAT JOB!
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.
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.
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.
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.
The gimbal mount is awesome! It turns some great videos into even greater ones!
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 saw you droolin. Makes me want one even though I have no use for one.
They bought their granite equipment at an auction in Egypt in the year 2200BC
Haha
I just got a Granite Surface Plate, 36" x 48" x 5'' Grade for 80 bucks
Wow. cutting stones for 27 years being a stone mason that was really intresting. Great video.
You always take us to such cool places, Thanks
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.
Wow, a Kysor Johnson band saw, havent seen one of those in a while, but they do last forever.
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
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.
The man on cloud 9, his happy place! Love it.
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've used a few Stanridge plates, always interesting to see how things you use get made. Great tour, Adam!
thanks adam for the tour, no doubt some places I will not see in person. appreciate it
Fascinating tour - thanks Adam. Lot of very desirable machinery.
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! 👍🏻
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.
Great to see you guys enjoyed your tour, thanks for shooting and editing buddy.
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. czcams.com/video/dedpbc_Q7Vs/video.html
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).
Awesome/huge factory. Thanks for the tour!
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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!
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
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 think a lot of the people working those machines knew who you were on sight hehe.
Cool vidya!
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.
incredible, I am just a hobbyist but thanks for the ride along with the tour!
Really like your channel! Its filled with all sorts of good knowledge! Keep it up man.
Thanks Adam for the tour. I hope most of the Granite is going to USA manufacturing Companies.
Manny
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. 👍
Adam, great video, but can you stand closer to the guide so we can hear him too?
Now I want an American surface plate...
Was that the same guy from the ox tools video?
yea it looks like him :D
Definitely 13:08
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
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 was just amazing to see I would really love to have been there to see that great video
Here's a little history tidbit about the diamond wire saw. The technological idea is actually very old, thousands of years old.
The Romans used something similar to cut marble. They used a thin rope and quartz sand instead of wire and diamond, but essentially the same otherwise. That was how they'd cut some of the big slabs and blocks they used (like for buildings and statuary). They'd pour a slurry of sand and water on the block, start the rope rubbing on it, and the rope would pick up and embed the sand in the fibers. Yeah, it'd wear a little, but would hold up. Then they'd keep cutting with it, just like that. I've seen drawings and pictures indicating they'd cut slabs or chunks in the quarries that might have been 100 ft or so in length (and then cut them down to other sizes).
I think the ancient Egyptians may have also used the technique for marble (water powered), also (I'm not so sure) the Greeks and maybe the Babylonians. I'd have to do some reading to see if anything similar was tried on harder stuff than marble - but I don't think it was used, for instance, on granite or sandstone.
I remember working on a precision CNC lathe that a customer bought used, which was built on a granite slab like that. He never could hold more than a few thousandths tolerance with the thing, and asked me to try to figure it out. After a lot of investigation, we discovered that the slab had been cracked, in a place where you couldn't detect it without tearing the machine halfway apart. It was a good idea, but...
RedHeart64 how did you weld the slab back together for him? I'm thinking either a plasma torch, or MIG (Magma Inert Gas).
@@firstmkb Granite cannot be welded. It is a natural stone. Once cracked it's done for. The only thing you can do is cut it up into smaller pieces and use it for something else.
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.
Great tour + very well video'd! Thanks for sharing.
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?
Very cool. Always wanted to see how this is done.
Thanks Adam, what an amazing shop.
How flat is a 2 ft x 2ft 1 1/4 inch thick piece of polished black granite from a 6x8 slab, sitting on a flat surface of course.
Really interesting tour, nice work.
Great tour! I wish I had a shop like that, lol
Очень интересное видео... так производят контрольные плиты из гранита и другой меритель. Великолепно!
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?
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
*A million surface plate vids on youtube, but nobody shows how you move the ^@&*$#@^ things around. How are guys getting 5-10" thick slabs into their shops?*
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. (-;
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,...
So this is where machinist nerds pilgrimage to admire the source of their holy stones 😜
Very interesting companies Adam , Thanks for the share man , Thumbs up !
Very beautiful
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.
that was really cool to see. than you for sharing adam, another great video like always. take care
cool tour. man they sure had alot of maching tool lathes mills etc
The source of all precision and flatness.
Rubbing 3 rocks together.
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.....
20:36 RIP my ears! Damn that high pitch just pierced my ears straight through.
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
Great experience! Thanx for sharing this
We produce those massive granite blocks which goes for precision plate making.
great place to see,very cool Adam
that's the dude that fixed Tom's plates!
I'm Sorry for asking this but what is a Granite Plate used for and how does it compare to a piece of granite for a Kitchen Countertop. Was my $30 sq/ft Kitchen and Bathroom Countertops Installed really "That Much" of an endeavor?
Very interesting video Adam. Is the Granite mined / quarried locally or is it imported?
Regards from Redruth
Arnold