The L.S. Starrett Company Factory Tour Part 3
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- čas přidán 28. 08. 2024
- Let's finish our tour at the @lsstarretttools factory up in Athol, Massachusetts and see how they build their high quality precision tools! In this video we'll get to see the punch press department, small gages, raw castings & forgings, combination square assembly, finishing processes and quality control. This tour spanned the period of two days and although we tried to get in as much as we could, it's simply too vast to be able to see it all and visit all of the departments. We hope that our viewers enjoy the tour and having some insite on many of the tools and processes that Starrett performs to build the best precision tools available! #starrett #precisiontools #manufacturing
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What I loved was the segment where we saw the Acme machines that were inoperative because the guy who operated all five retired so they replaced the work with CNC machines. What was so amazing about that was they didn't replace him as long as he could contribute to the overall output. They kept him employed and productive while making up the difference with CNC. I've never heard of a manufacturing company that would do that. They have an enormous loyalty to their employees.
the guy running the tour is the exact type of guy you want on this job. very impressive the knowledge of organizational processes
I'm honored that A&A Booth took the time to visit my home state of MA.
Starrett is an American Icon.
Try to imagine how many trillions of dollars worth of machinery has been built with Starrett tools.
Great to see a factory with old wood floors and tons of windows that actually open. Worked a week in a big modern factory ten hours a day during the winter where I did not see the sun for five days. Finally put my winter coat on and sat in my car to see the sun while eating my lunch. Appears they go out of thier way to take good care of thier workers. Now you are just a # to companies.
I see a forest outside the window. Nice, but where?
Really cool to have your grand dad’s mic with you. Just great to see generational tools respected in that way.
I've used Starrett tools throughout my 35 career in machining and there's none better. Thanks for these amazing videos.
Hi Adam. There is a good chance that my grandfather assembled your granddad’s micrometer. He worked at Starrett for 30 years, retiring in 1972 from the micrometer assembly area. He started out making the wooden finger-jointed boxes that Starrett used to package their tools in. I still have some and some micrometers from my grandfather also.
Great tour and great documentation of some of the processes used to manufacture these great American tools. Thanks for your work to produce these videos.
Hats off to Tim for a fantastic tour! I loved the " after two days I finally stumped you" Comment! I was wondering how impressed he was that you could name almost all the parts and pieces. I guarentee that doesn't happen often! Makes you part of the Starrett family.
Surprised they didn't offer Adam a Job.... 😉
I don’t think people realize how incredible this company is. Starrett tools have touched every industry in America for so long. What a great tour…. It’s the equivalent to touring Yankee stadium if you’re a baseball fan or Lambeau if you’re an NFL fan.
Yeah, half of my precision tools are Starrett. Too bad they just sold the company, I guess we can expect their quality to take a nose dive soon enough. They'll be made overseas by a Chinese company, all that'll be left is the name.
My husband is a retired mold maker and he really enjoyed this series. My dad was a tool and die maker so I enjoyed it too. Thank you. Your guide was spectacular!!
Amazing how that company has survived and been around since 1880 the stories and history will never be forgotten
So I see you got to see Doug junior.. When I work there, his Dad was the CEO Doug Senior.. That was the number of years ago , ha ha ha. I think I worked there when they had the highest number of employees.. If I remember correctly it was about 1,500.. in Athol Massachusetts
Thanks Adam You were Exactly the guy, one who KNOWS TOOLS to provide a description of what they are used for. the interaction of the Starrett guy and you was instructive and true. THANK YOU Mr Booth. This was wonderful.
Yep
Thanks Adam and Abby!!!😊
Adam , what a great video, I cant imagine how many squares. Starrett has made since L.S. Starrett invented them in 1888?? it amazes me that they are still made every day ? your videos are top shelf ...
Thank you Abom family and Starrett. I just love the manufacturing process at Starrett. Totally amazing. So proud to have seen this series of videos. Abom the knowledge you have is incredible. Starrett please keep making amazing tools in the USA.
Just beautiful, ending with such a warm and touching music! Thank you for educating us about an American Manufacturing legend, Starrett.
Thanks for sharing your trip to Starrett, very cool!
Pretty cool of Starrett to let you see everything - and Film! - usually manufactures don't do that, but I'm guessing since they don't have a lot of competition, they aren't too concerned about trade secrets. Starrett - Filming? No problem. Wal-Mart - "Sir, turn off your phone camera"
There really is a lot of competion. It's just that these are hand tools.. there's nothing revolutionary about these types of units.
Trade secrets? These are all archaic methods.
@@carliemorgan1871 OK point conceded about the competition. But one just has to love how well the bosses of Starrett treat their employees.
Adam , Tims going on vacation for two weeks can you come up to Mass and cover the tours you have the catalog memorize, and most of the poplar part numbers , we got a group from NASA coming for a tour ......
Another great video. Thanks so much for sharing
Great series and a perfect complement for your channel.
3 of my kids work there. My son is doing the tool room apprenticeship program.
I love seeing tools made right here in America. makes me happy.
Thank you Adam and Starrett. Really enjoyed the tour.
I see a forest outside the windows....? I thought Starrett was in the heart of the city? Beautiful tribute to an American icon.
LOL like how you geeked out on this, cool. 👍🇨🇦
What a great tours Adam I really loved it I purchased my first Starret tools when I was a junior in high school that would be 1973 and still have them. And it was awesome bringing your grandad's mike and that your father also used, and now you use. That is awesome stuff!
Abom in a candy shop. Tom and Adam filled with knowledge, dedication and enthusiasm. Yay!
Tim sorry.
This has been a great series to watch Adam, It’s so sad Starrett has been sold now, let’s hope they keep the same quality standards and that the US jobs aren’t lost.
Thank you Starrett, Adam and the whole team. Very entertaining and informative. In the last two weeks I’ve added several red and white boxes to my collection.
Great job! Thanks a million for this Starrett series of videos. I remain awed by this place, and I feel very happy to know that there is still some good stuff Made In America.
Great video. Wish starrett the best…
Many Thanks...I'm on sack lunches after a STARRETT purchase...and well worth it. Safe travels to you and Abby..............
Hehe. You touching all those things with your hands makes me think of Grandpa Joe and Charlie Bucket contaminating the Fizzy lifting drink machine...Willie Wonka.
I hope their legacy is preserved for years to come!! 🙂Great tour!!
Adam, You are a very lucky guy to get to tour the Sharrett factory. Thank you for sharing your tour with all of your followers.
I really enjoyed this factory tour to see the birth place of all the Starrett tools that are in my Gerstner tool box....oh yea, the Gerstner tour was fantastic as well.
3:32 I like the high-tech cardboard receptacle ! It just shows that not everything has to be designed using differential equations.
this was an amazing series , really enjoyed it
Great tour Adam I'm sure this will give Starrett a bump in sales to we really need to support our USA manufacturing even if it hits the wallet a little harder you get what you pay for.
Excellent video. Makes you appreciate the quality and time spent making it.
Also nice to hear that a rule is pronounced correctly and not ruler.
Rule is correct ✅
Great job thanks to you and Abby
NSW. AUSTRALIA
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Thanks for taking us along on the tour at Starrett. I loved getting to see how my favorite tools are made!! I love Starrett rules! They are the only ones I trust
Better than a Peter Jackson 3 Parter! XD Thank You!
Great job guys. Thank you 😊
That is special to see three generations of use of a tool !!
Thank you for taking the time to put this series together. I know it took a ton of time and effort behind the scenes... There's no doubt in my mind that the Made in the USA tools are the best money can buy.
I grew up in the area and never knew how widespread a name Starrett was until I went I to engineering. I know Doug's son is working his way through the company. Hopefully it continues to stay in the family!
They take allot of pride in their tools and their employees, they even let them dress comfortably and don't appear to put allot of pressure on them. I was hoping they gave you a nice goodie bag before you left, even their seconds would be my first. Great video series, thanks for sharing.
Thanks for this, Adam & Starrett. What a tremendous inspiration. I hope more Americans are inspired to manufacture quality things here at home.
That tour guide was cool AF. I would love to have a beer and talk machinist tools. Thanks Adam!
Thanks, Adam, for this fantastic tour. I've used Starrett tools since 1979 at NASA. I'm thrilled that American quality is still their theme.
Adam, thanks so much for going to Athol and sharing this with us. That was a really good tour.
Well Im not going to Lie . I feel like a total fool. I watched this last night . Ive been using there square for years at work . I did not know that there was a scribe in the bottom. I thought the knurled knob on bottom was just decorative feature. I checked first thing when I went to work this morning. Lmao. Funny thing is though that I have Starret scribe right next to my square that I have been using for years. Jesus
Thanks Adam! That was very special, I know I love my Starrett tools. I wish I had more!
Great video nice work buddy
Uplifting story giving a glimpse of how a company can meld quality production and profits into a cohesive manufacturing enviorment that invests in the worker and customer needs serving industry needs w/o any need for outside regulation. Thanks for bringing me along! Ray Stormont
Awesome Video!!! Thank You for doing it!!
Great American company and great American craftsman working there.Those old New England mill buildings are amazing too.
You know this is going to be a good set of videos!
love it
What an amazing place!! Thanks for the detailed tour!
Adam, I too am a big Starrett aficionado! I watched Mr. Pete (Tubalcane) really rip into Starrett for selling to a private firm and was truly wondering why. If the Company continues to operate as they are now in the same factory and their products are not being moved to offshore production, then why was he so upset? I noticed the Foreman (your guide) in your video made it a point to emphasize American Made products a bunch of times. Hopefully he was being honest. The other thing is that I don not know the timeline of your video and when it was made. Could have been made prior to the announced sale - I don't know. I'd like your interpretation as you see it.
GREAT VIDEO!!!!! Its amazing what a clean and pristine factory they have.
Hey Adam maybe show them the Dial Indicator Repair SNS ??? Years before
When you wasnt happy with the result ??
Great tour,Adam.Thank you.
Fantastic series, thanks for sharing! Very inspirational
Spectacular video, thank you for sharing your trip to one of the best instrument maker
I am proud such a high-quality company is US based. I am really curious for the future since the company sold. If you received any info from the executives regarding the future, we would really like to know. Thanks
THANK YOU SO MUCH .. I VERY APRECIATE THIS VIDEO .. THANKS FOR SHARING WITH US ..
❤ I have enjoyed watching this series and could imagine what the company looked and sounded like back in the day when 1,800 employees were working there.
New technologies will reduce the 800 that are still there.
I have bought a lot of their tools and used many that I couldn't possibly afford in my lifetime.
Great video, as always. Tim seems like a solid dude.
Loved the visit. Here in South Africa we have been metric since 1969 ( by decree but thats another story ) so all my measuring tackle is in metric. Got all my late dad’s stuff which came ex UK original. Have been building up my metric measuring stuff since mostly Mitutoyo but I do appreciate well made tools. Tony Aimer Johannesburg
Awesome tour. Loved this series, Adam.
Great series. thanks for posting.
This was one of or the best video youve made todate. EXCELLENT A+++
Awesome show, thanks guys 🍻👍🇦🇺
I grew up 80 miles from there. If I had known about them I would have retired from the place by now.
Awesome, I enjoyed the series. I live about an hour away and I've never even driven by!
Fantastic series of videos one of Americans great company we still have one or two in the UK thank for the chance to see in side the starrett factory
So happens I've got a box full of heads for combination squares that may or may not be branded, now at least I'll know the process of origin. Thank you Sir, great content. Shame ya couldn'ta took Mr. Pete up north with ya'll
Un lindo viaje a una fabrica de orgullo Americano...👏👏
that's awesome teaching next gen
next year you should work a few shifts
Very cool video!
Fantastic
Good vid , like your passion
this is great
cool old spot!
Nice, thanks 👍🏻
Starrett is so good all my inherited grandfathers' tools were stolen one by one. Have to keep them bedside with your pistol.
Pay attention all you young people who feel lost and think “what can I do, I don’t have any experience”. You can dedicate yourself to making America better by watching at 26:13 and building yourself a better life if you’re willing to learn! Go apply at Starrett and learn a career instead of playing video games and living in mom’s basement. If you have reasonable eye and hand coordination you can make something of yourself.
Kids spending hours and hours in their mum's basement playing video games, in so doing would probably have developed some pretty awesome brain, eye and hand coordination. Pretty useful if you're single blocking through a new program at the CNC machine to prove it out; at warp speed without crashing being the expectation when fully proficient. But maybe with the new conversational stuff, they don't do that any more; certainly haven't seen it here.
I'll be sad to see things moving away from the old tools that need to much babying. Truth is that business' are to make money. I hope they keep the old machines working as long as they have people who know how to operate them. Makes the tools feel that much more special when you know there was someone making every part of the tool.
impressive abom knew what some of the more no descript forgings were , but he has always been a gear head , he loves fine quality tools
Where’d you get the starrett cap you’re wearing in these videos? I want one.
Does Starrett have a store on site in Athol where you can purchase their products?
It would have been funny if the grandchild of the person that put the mic together was able to check it out for you
Kenosha, Wisconsin had a hundred times this number of brick multi story factories. All knocked down and in the landfill now. What a crime.
Is Starret still going? I've heard stories about them being bought out
“Graduations” is a ceremony, “Gradations” is a measurement as on a scale. They are NOT interchangeable.