Mill Mechanical Shop Tour

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

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.

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

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.

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.

that live center is toast

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.🙏🏻🙏🏻👍👍👏🏻👏🏻👋👋

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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