In today's video, we're machining the biggest part we've ever attempted in 60 years! This MONSTER component is the 5 ton drive head for our MEGADRILL, and the flange warped during welding. We'll be using a Marcem Flange Facer to do the job, and experimenting using both carbide and tool steel for cutting.
It's a wild setup, but let's see if we can get the job done.
Enjoy!
About HAL Heavy Duty:
We're a real life machine shop for a 60 year old drilling company located in Central Queensland, Australia. Our job is to keep rigs running in the field - fixing all the stuff drillers break and creating all the custom gear they need to get the job done!
We run two CNC's, manual repair lathes, a few mills and a big green Megabore Lathe we call "THE HULK"... and are constantly having to make weird and wonderful tools for odd (usually oversize) jobs.
We're a little shop that takes on big projects, and the latest is our MEGADRILL project where we're manufacturing a 3.0m (10 foot!) drill bit that'll weigh upward of 20 tonnes and we're getting ready to send it 250m (800+ feet) deep.
If you want to catch up on the progress... here's the latest on the project.
https://youtu.be/OKPr15PucGQ?si=dTVN39xDaAYi3Je9
https://youtu.be/mK3slsayuZM?si=kB4koTj7MrkngnlJ
https://youtu.be/qtsz7cLtDY8?si=LL-ip0p-M-FVsoTs
https://youtu.be/j_g8wMRu7wc?si=_PO-F-opHgggzjU1
https://youtu.be/r796Mw4j1gM?si=_9yPWEgUw4b10d5e
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