Any industrial engineering fans here?

[Andrew_Culture]

Ah see. Nothing wrong with SKF. At all.

There was some pretty custom looking bearings on that bog roll machine s'all.

Ah, we don't make bog roll machines, like till roll machines they're quite specialised and if they're not almost entirely automated then they won't be financially viable to own.

That X2 Salvage Winder was winding nonwovens like the sort used in nappies - it's tricky stuff to wind because you have to get the tension just right or the material stretches, rips or just goes all to shoot!

 

[dan_bo]

I was a blacksmith building trains, mine hunters and the forks for fork lift trucks, but not in the same company

What's a mine hunter nuts?

 

[Andrew_Culture]

I was a blacksmith building trains, mine hunters and the forks for fork lift trucks, but not in the same company

I read that as 'mice hunters'...

 

[subaqua]

By default I'm also very interested in our industrial heritage. I'm not one for heroes, but Isengard Kingdom Brunel is the closest I've got to having a hero.

My dad is a huge steam railway fan, and even all these years later a holiday doesn't feel like a proper holiday unless we go for a ride on a steam train.

Lord of the Things

and Isambard is one of my "heroes " too.

I like the slitting machine- i erected one a lot older than that way back at the start of my apprenticeship and did all the controls and speed sensor settings- al controllled by billions of relays in a panel no fancy pants electronics - a schematic the size of Lord of the rings. was used in the manufacture of compressed paper edge protection. using tetrarex rejects they were slit and rewound then fed through a gluing and forming machine.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

Lord of the Things

and Isambard is one of my "heroes " too.

I like the slitting machine- i erected one a lot older than that way back at the start of my apprenticeship and did all the controls and speed sensor settings- al controllled by billions of relays in a panel no fancy pants electronics - a schematic the size of Lord of the rings. was used in the manufacture of compressed paper edge protection. using tetrarex rejects they were slit and rewound then fed through a gluing and forming machine.

Gah, I even Googles to check the great man's name!

Who did you work for when you built that machine? It's all PLCs and whatnot these days.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Do you get your bearings from HB?

Hanna Barbera?

 

[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

I used to do the plc and embedded chip programming to make your machines "come alive"

 

[dan_bo]

Hanna Barbera?

Nooooooo

 

[byegad]

I love to see our* ingenuity and the clever things we make. My elder son makes machines to lay pipes and cables in the sea, his last 'project' made his firm and UK Ltd a lot of money, the photos I 'haven't' seen make me very proud and amazed at his and his firm's capabilities.

*The human race.

 

[flatflr]

If you like paper winding kit. I used to work for a very large photographic company (who are almost no more), we had automated winders and unwinders that would take a roll of paper or film base 55 inches wide* by something like 2km long* and run it through the coating and drying equipment at 100 meters per minute*, they were some big bits of kit..

We also had our own power station on site, and I got the chance to go up the tallest chimney

* estimates as it was a long time ago

 

[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

I did some programming up at Sellafield on some robotic arms and high pressure water cutting machines for the nuclear industry- that was fascinating.....a water jet that could cut thru 50mm stainless steel 316. The arm manipulator had a "hand" but only had four fingers.

 

[palinurus]

Got a lab at work full of stuff for soldering/ electronics assembly- several fully auto printers, 3d inspection, pick and place robot (I'll attach a video), reflow oven, dispensing machines, x-ray inspection plus miscellaneous stuff related to die attach and other semiconductor back-end processes. We've probably got a soldering iron stashed in a cupboard somewhere too, unless someone's thrown it out. We don't build electronics- all used for testing soldering consumables.

We don't have a Fuji chipshooter like in this vid, we have a more flexible, and slower, Mydata machine.

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nah4BQ9y8IY

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Nooooooo

phwoar!

 

[flatflr]

I did some programming up at Sellafield on some robotic arms and high pressure water cutting machines for the nuclear industry- that was fascinating.....a water jet that could cut thru 50mm stainless steel 316. The arm manipulator had a "hand" but only had four fingers.

If you like older industrial engineering with a slight connection there is the River Don Engine which was used to roll steel plates for nuclear power plants 12,000 HP.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Don_Engine

 

[dan_bo]

If you like paper winding kit. I used to work for a very large photographic company (who are almost no more), we had automated winders and unwinders that would take a roll of paper or film base 55 inches wide* by something like 2km long* and run it through the coating and drying equipment at 100 meters per minute*, they were some big bits of kit..

We also had our own power station on site, and I got the chance to go up the tallest chimney

* estimates as it was a long time ago

Whoooooa there bro! mixed units! IT'S JUST NOT ON!