AWESOME TE-CO Workholding Factory Tour! 

The flame hardening technique..sometimes a process such as heat treat can sound so complicated and time consuming but this shows there is always a simple and quick way to do something without needing to send it out.

Fantastic tour video. Amazing mix of machines still cranking out quality parts in the USA. That planer is over 100 year old design, and even the odd Grizzly mill/drill. Good job busting his chops for the occasional Kurt vice. Thanks so much for showing all these tours. My Te-Co clamps are at least 40 years old and still working today.

these factory tours are awesome!

Every time I see a US factory tour like this, it reminds me how well us tools are made and the real value over import stuff. even though I'm only a hobbyist.

Another great tour. I really like my TE-CO tools. So much better than that offshore junk and just slightly higher priced. A joy to work with their products.

Great American CO. beautiful factory with a good vibe and excellent product thank's for the tour John.

I bet the old factory had some stories to tell!

Nice tour, I like tours of places, even if they are video tours. At 6:40 I think it is a 50 ton. Roll threads are far stronger than cut threads. Because this machine is an auto feed, I suspect they had originally planned to auto feed them. Hand feeding is actually better done on a hand feed machine, you get less of those bad starts. But, those shafts actually can be set up to auto feed on that machine, the way to do it, will unlikely be easily found though. But, if auto feeding desired, if I were me, I would do that job on a two or three die round die machine. For this job, two die would be cheapest, and threads will be even better than flat die. Set up on round die is easy and method can be easily found. Alignment on two die round die is rotate one die (drive shaft) until no laps, just as easy as flat die, actually faster, just a different way.

These machines could really take a wash.

Pretty cool stuff! I love the factory tours :D It's a shame we can't get you over to Poland to tour our 430,000 SqFt factory!

Love your factory tours! your tour of Haas Automation was eye opening for me as I have lived in the Ventura all my life and had no idea it was so huge. Absolutely fabulous! Thank you!

Wow I just wish I lived close enough to see some of these factories in person. The older I get the less I can travel not to mention the less time I have for vacation. I do enjoy your videos. Thank you.

I love my toe clamps from TE-CO! they are so much nicer than the import variety and only cost a bit more, but worth it! Thanks John!

I love these factory tours! I would also like to see tours of smaller manufacturing facilities. Think Grimsmo Knives? I thought that all strap clamps were made overseas. I'm going to buy a full set of Teco clamps and hold downs now. Thanks John!

I get great ideas for our shop by watching the shop tours. Thanks so much!

great factory tour good to see American factories producing quality stuff.Keep these tours coming i enjoyed the starrett very much keep up the good work!

Where was the love for the Hardinge Conquest T42? American made and 20 years old in a tough production shop. Just glazed over!

There is so much to learn from these factory tours. Really interesting!

Awesome tour! We use Teco products at my shop too! Great company!

Are you considering Gorbel in your search for lifting equipment? Glad to see Te-Co using them. USA made, near Rochester, NY

You caught yourself saying Banchard but then calling it a Mattison Rotary- nice. Thanks for doing the tour, great shop with old and new machines.

love a good factory tour! love manufacturing! 👍👍 Thanks, John!

Where I just started working, they have a couple cnc lathes where they roll threads on them. Its 1045 steel as well

Awesome video John I really enjoyed the shop tour 👍

I would be A-OK with you only doing these videos. I did my interview at LBL a couple weeks ago and its all your fault! This shop reminds me a LOT of Morgan. You learn a lot in shops like this, medium production, custom processes, iterative optimization. If you are looking to get into this trade, THIS is the kind of shop you want to start in. Trust me on this.

good tour...! Really an eye opener... Can't believe all the automation... Down side, most of the automated machines come from the Japan, etc... To bad we don't build that stuff anymore....! Thanks John

Another great factory tour. Thanks John.

Thanks John, these tours are awesome. Keep up the great work! ATB, Robin

Always enjoy a factory tour. Thanks.

So awesome that you get to do these! Not only is it awesome in general its awesome for the industry! Keep up the great work! I need to come visit your shop one day! Im about a week or so from needing to get an anodizing setup if you still have it I will be in touch!

TE-CO and the man.

Interesting, in the USA 'simple' clamps are made on technical machinery that is made outside the USA.

Thank you for taking around!

I thought this was going to be the TECO Bracket company. Wasn't disappointed at all that it's TE-CO

thanks for making these tour videos .

dust collection is going to require some thinking about a big box.. with a tapered upper surface.. invision half a a house with a hip roof.. a shop vacuum or dust collector hose at the small end.. so anything that gets into the almost funnel shape gets sucked in.. you may require an electric leaf blower on the other side supplying enough blow force to keep the top of the part clean and getting the air and particles moving toward the collector funnel. some way to throttle the airflow out.. either with a router speed control or big dust collector sliding valves. you could also build something like a transparent mig welding nozzle. that could have a significant snout to hook to the shop vacuum or dust collecting system. it would have to be 2 different sizes tubes that slip fit and a round plate made like a dinner plate with all the edges curved up.. so it would lift up and keep the opening in the middle close to the work for maximum suction force. and vertical movement as the tool goes deeper. clear sections to allow viewing..

As always..Love your tour episodes!

I almost died, “KURT” give me a break!

I had no idea they were in Ohio and what aall they made, I have some of their spring plungers and didn't realize who made hem.. Great video.

I absolutely love this stuff. A big thank you John.

At the material receiving area, was it set up where there were in and out doors on opposite sides of building (opposite each other), so the delivery truck could drive into the building and offload the raw stock in parallel to the long axis of the truck, if you remember? Just thought I would ask as it looks like they may have set up the new building with that type of efficiency. Best - Michael

Tom hanks looks very old in this movie.

i love mori seiki machines

This. Was. Awesome.

I think when I got my Te-Co stuff it was made in Wisconsin, I didn't realize they had moved to Dayton. I can say without a doubt their stuff is good quality. I did a review on my hardware from them way back when. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Ck58bSWZjew.html Thanks for the great tour and for getting him to wear a mic so we could hear well!

He should really consider hanging some sound dampening material from the roof beams. (Frames with rockwool covered with cloth on a chain) And use ear protection for fudge's sake.

HI JOHN I really want know how the MiteeBite factory it is. hope they want show us. and TE-CO are so cool.

Super cool !

Nice tour, thanks for sharing. A little advice when you go one tours: DON'T TOUCH without asking first. About 6 months ago we purchased a TE-CO 6" vise that was made in Taiwan. It checked out to be very accurate. It's very similar to our Kurt D675 only a little longer jar opening and $100 less. We have a few TE-CO step blocks and toe clamp sets the are way better than the foreign brands.

WELCOME TO TECHPORN 🤪👍🕺🐨< OZ MATE!

So much for one piece flow. WIP inventory costs must be huge. If they do the same standard products constantly my thoughts would be smaller machines in-line. Much easier to automate or reduce handling.

Great, very interesting

7:15 Talk about exciting job.

just plain cool.

Wow very nice and did you buy a vice of them ? 😉

john super COOL.

Those are jib hoist not gantry cranes. Just an FYI for next narration.

Enjoyed the video!

Very cool thanks

My brain Kurtssss

This is so damn cool.

I see lots of AvE Safety Squints....(and glasses on the forehead) ...

Hahaha the dude at 15min loading 30lb parts with a 4000lb crane... must be a union guy haha

COOOOL !!

John, I really enjoy your factory tours and it's great to see component(s) made in the USA but would it not be great if the manufactured products would also be made with machines made in USA instead of machines with "off shore name" brands.

You need a outdoor shield for that camera, so you do not get that flair from the over head lights. Looks like Fog, I feel like you where in a Monsoon and your camera has not dried out all foggy. Half the Time it looks like you White wash filter the hole video.

what do you do all day? put springs into cylinders...

God.

26:13 don't cut yourself :)

You have done this before on other tours where they are showing you something and you are so interested you forget us and the camera points out to where ever and we don't get to see what the person is showing you. It only happens once in a while so it is no big thing.

That is weird , I have seen factories fully automated even in china , why this factory is using labor for simple tasks like moving things .

History...the last shaper in America in use.....!

👨‍💻You go & see how a Power board is made all inside work THE Metal box stamped out & formed the copper buss bars pressed on big press auto feeder & All the small components electrical switches all put together by rows of women I WORKED there late 90s Where springvale rd vic OZ 🕺🐨got boring as was a temp job while i looked for a better

Guessing at 7:54. Wire EDM

Surprised they use old junk lathes like those !!! Some of the old corporate big places like that still use machines from the 70s and 80s !!! I wouldn't like it there !

Have these guys never heard of induction hardening? Are they really flame-hardening? What time do we live in? The 1950s?!

YEAH! first!

To be honest, I’m really not impressed. This factory is 80’s galore from what I’m seeing. Dirty and cluttered benches, people not wearing their earplugs and glasses with noisy and open machines, very dirty machines (inside and out, see the air vents etc) No air flitration or mist collectors, if your company can’t afford to protect their employees, they don’t have a real right to excist in this day and age. I’m not hating but it’s clear that this company wants to compete with China, I’m not sure you should. Lang, Schunk, Hoffman etc aren’t trying to compete, and they have VERY different looking shops. Maybe someone can enlighten me on why this shop does look good? 😇🙈

Factory looks depressing. Looks like one of those Chinese sweat shops