Charles

i build saws for foundries @safercut

[Charles @ayingerbrau88]

@StressedBizGuy @shawngorham Many such cases rn

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@EV_Trapper Everett Industries. All abrasive chop saws. Made with the right power and built to be repaired and last 25+ years.

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@EV_Trapper @SlickOneI These are often super duper under powered and can easily ruin the material with heat build up.

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@sendcutsend Abrasive cutting will damage the lens!

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Niche little American manufacturing story.

Most turbine blades and vanes start as a round bar of superalloy. These are cast in steel tubes, then pressed out as ~45” ingots ranging from 2-7” in diameter.

Every investment casting mold needs a precise charge weight, and the typical industry tolerance is +3/-0 lbs. We built a fully automated abrasive saw that cuts these ingots to +0.25/-0 lbs.

It scans the bar on the infeed and adjusts cut length on the fly to hit the requested weight. Auto loading, full dust containment, outfeed weighing, and marking with weight, heat number, or whatever traceability the foundry wants.

Gas turbines, jet engines, and rockets all run on cast superalloy parts. The grid buildout and the defense ramp both come back to foundries cutting a staggering amount of superalloys. We build these machines in Warren, Ohio for the foundries doing that work, and we think the equipment behind American hard tech should be American too.

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@zanehengsperger hell yeah

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@SkinnyfatTony I learned how to wire controls the same way. We had our electrician quit mid job so I jumped from marketing to wiring and learned on the fly. Ended up doing it and marketing for a year before we refilled the role. Probably my favorite working year.

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@zodiaceng @BuildBoost I like to imagine the total cost of this behavior across the entire defense industry lol

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That’s Mar-M002 getting shredded by the saw btw. ~20 seconds to cut a 4 inch ingot.

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My poor GoPro. We’re torture testing a new abrasive wheel on one of our investment casting charge cutting systems(@SaferCut ). I need marketing content so the brave GoPro goes in the soup.

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@hunterlanier We just got a VF-4 AND a VFOE for 1800 bucks… zero alarms, everything works, and they cleaned up great.

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@SkinnyfatTony Greetings! Manufacturing X is the place to be!

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@JoshuaSteinman Howmet’s 50,000ton press in Cleveland can do it.

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@zanehengsperger And then they tell you a date as a maybeeee….. then it gets pushed around for 2 weeks because they “can’t get the truck, truck cancelled, they sold their big forklift” or some other ridiculous excuse

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@emm0sh @aegrabs It’s so amazing too. Everything is so deeply connected and accessible from anywhere.

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@davidliuxyz Spent 10 minutes trying to figure out why the forks wouldn’t go past the first stage the other day… had to tilt back 1 degree. 😡

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@CalebChamberla6 We just went through a phase of this. Got more machine orders than ever all at once for 24 months. Now it’s somewhat slow and it feels so strange to have time to improve/fix every thing and system that broke when we were running.

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@zanehengsperger Are the plants real