I did this work for years. It does help to toke up now and again. Lol. It really isn't all that boring. This guy doesn't stand there mixing silicone all day long. He has many other tasks.
Worked for Omnova Solutions in Jeannette PA, a former General Tire plant. We still used the original Banbury mixers, mills, and Calendar mills for other rubber/polymer products. All were fitted with belly pressure bars and pull cord emergency stops. This scary watching with no such devices in place. Also no hot mill gloves. Granted your working in lower temperatures. All are mill work was in excess of 200 F.
@@texasrox2010 Tire rubber wouldn't be as shiny, and would be much heavier. This material looks more like silicone, and looks a little translucent. But correct, raw virgin rubber would be milled like this before being placed into molds to make things like tires
sure beats digging ditches for a job!... apart from the fact that the operator will have major hearing loss after a few years working without hearing protection, and him pecking at bits of rubber near the bite of the rollers with a complete absence of hip safety bar or higher trip wire emergency stop mechanisms (that stop a mill in a fraction of a second) mean there's a fair chance the black rubber will turn red one day.
I ran a sixty inch and two forty eight inch Mills for over fifteen years, I compounded over ten million pounds of silicone. I never got hurt once and daydreamed most the time I was doing it
I've watched several of these now, but it never says.... What would this silicone be used for? Are the strips at the end the final product, or would it be sent on to somewhere else and formed into a different product?
The silicone comes virgin in the clear ish form, then stabilizers and curing agents are added as the pigment is, and there is a period of time after mixing till its complete polymerization is achieved. Silicone is fascinating. I play with the 2 part a and b liquid kind and I wish I would use a mixing mill like this. I use smooth on dragon skin for my molds and parts. Soon I'll be making some sheet and doing insulation for electrical low voltage applications and if I'm successful, ill make a video.
I’m a miller myself, the jobs not a bad job as long as you can have a smoke, mixing the blues and yellows and reds etc together to make the different couples are quite cool, but unfortunately when adding your curing agent and colours it wouldn’t be mixed properly :(
@@fryloc359 you can adjust the nips, in my factory I can go from 8mm to half inch, all depends on the type of rubber and how much your putting on, if I'm putting a 50kg on then it'll be wide nips, if in using a fireproof silicone that doesn't mill very well (crumbles) then I would go small to allow all to bind properly
Nowake is right. They actually run water through those big metal rollers to cool them so the silicone doesn't get too hot. The trick is to get them warm enough to soften the silicone to make mixing easier without getting it too hot. If it gets too hot the silicone will start to cure (set / harden) and you'll ruin the whole batch.
You should set music to this and just mill a bunch of different shit to make those beautiful patterns. I was just smoking herb and watching this with my own background music. Its hypnotizing.
this is silicone. can be used whatever for you like and imagine. silicone rubber can be useful for you or your product in numerous ways. depending what is final product, chem composition is different, as for electrical wiring insulator or for high temperatures or tube/hose...
