Helical Solutions Factory Tour!
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Helical Solutions manufactures some of the best carbide end mills in the business. Join along as we tour their Maine Factory where they grind, inspect, and apply end mill coatings! Times for different departments are listed below!
01:00 - Grinding Helical End Mills
28:30 - Inspection Department
32:40 - Setting Up Grinding Wheels
35:00 - Coating Department
42:00 - Laser Marking
43:18 - Test Cuts
50:00 - Order Fulfillment
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It’s nice to see a Plant Manager with such thorough knowledge of his products and how they are made. You asked him questions about everything from metallurgy, to machining methods, coatings, even machine construction and so much more; each time you asked something he immediately had the answer.
Absolutely, He is very switched on and seems to have done his time on the shop floor.
I agree xmaswitguns everyone who spoke had amazing knowledge of thier employer/company!
Except Tungsten Carbide is not made from cobalt. Carbides are compounds containing carbon and a less electronegative element e.g. Silicon Carbide (SiC) and Titanium Carbide (TiC). Its just like carbon steel but instead of steel it's tungsten.
Working for him would be a Pleasure!
James White //////do you really not see how passive aggressively smug he is?
"How its Made" but for Adults with very specific interests! Love your work!
I absolutely love the plant tours. Thanks!!!
These industry tours that you do, really illustrate the excitement and enthusiasm these people have in the craft.
Love these tours!!
NYC CNC shop tours are some of the best content I have ever seen. Keep up the good work!
Thanks!
That guy running the VF2SS really knows his stuff. Very impressed.
I'm not a machinist but I really enjoyed this, most interesting. The Manager knows his stuff, product and its processes.
28:52 That moment when you're checking reddit on your phone and the boss walks in.
As a frequent visitor to Maine, I often visit Goreham, my host's hometown. It always seemed much like other towns and cities in the area, picturesque, quaint with a rich history of logging, though I don't think anyone would describe Helical as quaint. I'm an English teacher but I love to see people making tools and instruments of industry because our libraries and schools won't be there without the wealth of the country to support them. A company that makes tools to make and maintain tools; it doesn't get much more basic than that. Great company, great vision, great products; thanks for the video.
Basic? Keep teaching Shakespeare pal.
That warehouse manager has it together! So cool.
nice to see they seem to be temperature controlled, happy workers happy machines, and most important consistent thermals.
Thanks Adam, and John for this amazing insight into how tools are made. Absolutely interesting the many facets of this type of manufacturing and so many great tidbits, like the diamond grinding wheels. Adam was incredibly knowledgeable.
Your factory tours are so interesting. Love the questions you pose and the interaction with the plant staff. You should be on TV
Man. This is The Tour. You Asked all the questions I would have and more. Sweet job.
John, I hope you realize, that aside from the funny hair cut you really are (to your viewers at least) the luckiest man alive! Thank you for letting us watch. Your enthusiasm alone is worth time. Thanks.
Damn John you have a wealth of knowledge to share. Looks like you could have givin this tour by yourself! Im glad Adam was there to share his knowledge. Thank you for doing these kind of videos. Keep‘ elm coming!
Wow. How high tech and precise. Thanks for the fantastic tour
Thanks for making this! Helical Solutions makes awesome tools!
John... your knowledge really shows in your videos...good questions and response... I had stopped watching your channel a few years ago as I had no internet... about the time when you moved to the farm...so glad I stumbled back to your page..... you have grown immensely... again... thanks for what you do... your fan... Paul
John really enjoyed this video. I especially like the fulfilment part of that. I have nothing to do with CNC or machining, just enjoyed it years back. I spend most of my time working with eCommerce companies. So I've experience optimising fulfilment and writing related software. So seeing you spend time in that part of the operation was nice to see. Going to get a look at that gummy tape solution.
If anyone was ever curious exactly how they actually do put the coolant ports in to solid carbide tools-
A former boss of mine used to do it, and he told me they use special plastic wire twisted and set carefully in place before they packed the carbide in a mold for the tool. The powder was pressed in a hydrostatic press, and I believe burnt out in the sintering process. That's how they do it.
Thanks for the tool porn! As a home gamer, finding high quality US made tools for the few tools I need a year is a BIG HELP.
Love Helical tools. So glad they are owned by Harvey now. I can run down the road to Rowley and grab a tool if I need to
Looks like they caught buddy off-guard on his phone, lol 28:52
Saw that too...…. busted! (Boss: see me in the office later)
My Compliments. I like your presentations because you get to talk to these experts in THEIR LANGUAGE and explain things in ways a dummy like me (hobbyist old school machinist) can understand and...I too see those end mills and drool :) You do good sir.
Glad to see Maine represented in presicsion manufacturing. Maine is on the up and up.
a very impressive Hall of Machine and Tool Porn amazing THX for this Tour Jhon ^^
this 1 hour was worth it
honestly, it felt shorter i want more of this
Before all this cnc malarkey I used to cut tooling on a Wickman optical profile grinder.. What fun that was.......:/
goes to high end tool cutter, nerds out on tape dispenser. its john alright
Hahaha
"So, that coolant; is it cooling?"
wow that`s a factory tour had a little man wee watching and learning about the coating department.. Thanks
love your shop tour videos
I like your factory tours!
super cool im a walter service tech makes me happy that i have video that i can finally send to my friends so they understand what i work on !!
Thanks for the tour as I get a lot of my tools from Harvey Tool and have since started to add Lake Shore to my line up. I really like how the Harvey Tools hold up and cut nice to see how things are made.
wow what a great video. absolutely loved this educational tour, love all your videos and keep up the good work. i watch them all the time. it's very interesting as a machinist to know all that goes into the making of carbide inserts/solid carbide tooling. a lot of the time we just receive tools in a box and that's all. but to know where and how it came about is quite intriguing. keep up the good work/videos. :)
Nice job John. Enjoy watching the the tours. Thanks for doing them.
Super fun to watch Buddy! Very interesting! Thanks so much for sharing this!
Now this is an actual tour! Five stars! What happened with the SANDVIK tour?
One of the very best factory tours I've see... Great work. Lot's of good information. Thank You!~
Loved this Helical factory tour! Great video.
Generally, high helix tools like that 6 flute are used for cutting hardened materials if you were wondering why that tool had such a tight packed helix. We demo'd some Helical tools and they peformed and held up really well with a good surface finish over a a lot of D2 parts. Would recommend. The surface finish was not as good as you'd get from Fraisa (best I've used for pure surface finish) but they were much more durable.
Love to see a Gorilla Mill factory tour! We use them all day everyday for rough and finish (when the finish doesn't matter) They're fine finishing when they're new but Fraisa finishes and the actual tools dimensional tolerances (IMO) are on point (within a tenth). Interestingly, Helical's dimensional tolerances are also very very good. There is just a sacrifice that is made by tool makers in general. If you want a tool that will cut fast (roughing) then the tool isn't as razor sharp. These tools will cut tough materials for a long time surprisingly provided the chip load is sufficient. Fraisa just makes a razor sharp endmill that finishes amazingly but you have to baby them if you want the edge to last. Helical has a great product. It's not as fast as Gorilla but it's finish is better (by a lot) however they don't last for roughing applications compared to Gorilla. They DO last compared to Fraisa but the surface finish isn't as good. It's close/very similar when the tool is new but deteriorates faster. We're a job shop though and not a production shop and so its hard tellin' what the 'big boys' run. Nice to be small :)
Bottom line is, rough with a great tool made for removing material fast and finish with a great tool made for finishing. Helical is unique in that, of the 1/2" tools we've tried, they're pretty good at both. Have good longevity in tougher materials and leave a good finish for a good amount of time. All good tool manufacturers, Helical, Gorilla, and Fraisa among many others, have regrind services. The only issue you encounter which I'm sure is more/less of an issue with production shops is that the length is altered. Easy to adjust for tool diameter, just alter and repost or use wear comp but if the tool isn't long enough for a specific cut, it has to be changed which costs time.
I worked in a shop that cut a lot of chrome and ceramic. My question would be how they handle machine abrasion from the flowing tungsten particles. In my experience the chrome and ceramic had a devastating amount of wear on unprotected parts and egress on protected parts.
I think he got that with the tungsten carbide wrong, it's not tungsten and cobalt but tungsten carbide and cobalt, where the cobalt fills the gaps after the sintering process. Carbide always means that it is a ceramic with an element and carbon, in this case tungsten and carbon. But correct me, if I'm wrong.
Then what is "tungsten carbide"? Tungsten = element. Carbide = ?
Carbon! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tungsten_carbide
Agreed. Always bums me out when someone bluffs their way through a question, rather than saying they don't know. Makes you question all the other stuff they have to say. Despite the temporary lack of respect, or hit to the ego that saying "i don't know" brings, i've found a much longer term gain in respect from the people i've had to say "i don't know" to. The honesty, and ability to actually answer the question correctly and not give false information is much more valuable.
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Silicon carbide = silicon and carbon crystal.
Calcium carbide = calcium and carbon crystal.
Tungsten carbide = tungsten and carbon crystal.
You aren't wrong, you've got it right.
Best factory tour yet, thanks.
Sorry, the Starrett tour takes the cake.
More tours love it. Want to go through my local tours you make it easy lol
Love the fact that they have Clorox wipe's to clean up the Duncan Doughnuts Coffee spill's. LOL.
Great video! I use Harvey tools and helical. I found the coating thickness being negligible funny though. I routinely work within tolerances of plus nothing minus 5 microns and he just killed half of my tolerance 😁 still love their tools.
I don't normally comment on these videos but each factory tour is so refreshing to watch. Knowledgeable managers, knowledgeable "interviewer", very little NDA. Just pure knowledge for things that would otherwise never see the public eye. Thank you for visiting these factories and thank the factories for sharing and the passion.
Nice tour, enjoyed.
Very impressive John.. Thanks!
Awesome tour! Great tools, I used them in the last shop I worked at but I cant seem to talk this shop into trying them. I may have a chance now since they joined Harvey.
Great stuff.. been using Harvey tools for years.
Awesome, tool grinding tour. I wonder how many times the word "absolutely" was said at the end.
A little late, but just have to say i love these videos. And as someone else said here, that plant manager knows a thing or two :-)
F##king nice shop!!!!! I only have one heli Power... with only 20 Tool loader... very interessting jobs you do! Greetings from germany. 👍🎄
6:27 dunno if anyone has corrected the plant manager yet, but those machines are NOT hydrostatic. The Walter Visions are linear motors (magnets), the Walter power machine and mini machines are typical ballscrew and rail setup. The only machines in that shop that are hydrostatic are some of the Rollomatics.
Awesome tour!
That was absolutely awesome! Said It before and Ill probably say it again, I love a good factory tour!
Fantastic! You looked like a kid in a candy store. I will buy you a 2", 2 flute endmill if you buy something to put it in! I can't even imagine the chips...
Did I mention... I'm loving this!
This man knows this business 1000%. He's gotta be an engineer right
This is inspiring - America can compete in the world market we just need to be willing abandon old process and in both people and machines.
Hey John, did you see how do they orientate a customer's used tool in the collet for a regrind? Both for initial measurement and tool rotation in the collet before regrind starts to ensure existing flutes etc line up with new grind? Great tour, thanks.
55:00 darn it John, you're making me want to spend $1000!
Preparatory Purchase?
What great fun; I'll wonder what that goofy endmill around 21:00 is for.
Visits Helical....Has cut on hand. lol. imagine the chances!
Awesome tour.
Thanks. That was cool.
...and the tape machine steals the show. Anyone see that coming?
HAHAH
@@nyccnc amazon uses the same exact tape machine for packing. source: I work at amazon lol
Understood about 5% of this but still watched it all
So so cool. Thanks again
John. Great tour. I think the time has come for you to seek the input from a collaborative professional A/V production team with a dedicated camera man or two following while you interview. I don't know exactly where your greatest passions lay, but with some professional assistance on polishing your presentation (pardon the pun) I think you could turn the making of these videos into a very lucrative business all of its own. There is a potentially high degree of reimbursement in the a/v production and documentary field. Blend in some other simular production companies tours, add in some audio and visual historical data with voice over dubbing and get a good editing firm and you're on your way. I guess it depends upon what you love to do most and lifestyle you desire? Best of luck, Scott.
Totally Freaked me out >>> Wow !!
I was wondering what the reject rate was for the three-point inspection for roundness on the carbide blanks, and for the inspection of finished cutters?
2" 2 flute end mill... (John) do you need to clean your shorts or take a shower or something?
So cool, love the factory tours and your excitement and knowledge.
A thought I just had.
If they check the tool diameter with their Helicheck why dont they just tie it to a bar code so when a customer gets the tool they also get the exact tool diameter?
Kool!!! Thanks John
WOW THOSE TOOLS ARE MASSIVE!!!! and thats what she said lol
Glad I'm not the only one who likes that 70's porno music for intros. lol
Very interesting thank you.
thats amazing company !
COOL.
fun video--but i must admit I have shown this to mulltiple people because of the girl with the red and white shirt--she has a memory/personality/energy matched by not many
So amazing! 😁
How do you keep a long tool like that from chattering? Really light cuts?
HSK100
i have grinded with walter power helitronic
👍👍👍 very cool!
Made in USA part is a big selling feature but I wonder if the carbide blanks are sourced in the USA . Hmmmm
Great Vid.
8:10
you put it back in the work hole ;-)
_Show Me The Money!_ ☝🤓
_It's All In This Building!!_ 🤣👏
I recently visited a Safran manufacturing plant that makes jet engine blades. The ratio of employees to machines keeps getting smaller and smaller.
Awesome 👍
I,d love to buy some tools but I think they do not ship to Asuncion Paraguay
how does fine metal waste get recycled, if there are so many different metal types,mixed up?(..in the trash)
Tungsten carbide is WC (Tungsten + Carbon) not WCo (Tungsten + Cobalt) Carbides in any case are derivatives or Carbon. That goes for Chromium carbide, tungsten carbide, steel carbides, ect. Cobalt is much softer than Tungsten, it would weaken its matrix. Carbon is harder than tungsten, as diamonds are made of carbon.
Anyone know the name of the metal shelves shown at 0:47 are?
This endmill movie was way better than the endgame movie
do tool manufacturers use cryogenics to prolong tool life ?
TECHPORN - why aren't you getting any sleep 😳🥺🤷♂️📈 no idea ! what is sleep? love these shows☕+☕+☕👉🐨👍straya mate cheers 🍺
i would work as a cleaner or ? just to watch these machine 😁👨
Great tour. Just wish you close-ups didn’t cut of the subject.