Pay attention starting at 17 seconds in.
Prepare to be amazed.
I didn’t watch the entire thing, my mouth got dry from hanging open after watching them “Press” that together..
OK, I went back and watched the whole thing.
These guys are animals.
Grinding on bearing journals and not even bothering to wipe the grinding dust and grit off before they put things together, cosmetic grease packing of huge bearings, using grinding discs on gear sets and shafts, not to even mention the gravity method of pressing shafts into gear sets.
By all that is holy among mechanics, these guys break every rule I have ever heard of when assembling something.
“We don’t need no steenking safety glasses or workboots!” At least they used gloves, sometimes. I wonder if they’re aware of the concept of cutting oil when tapping or lapping? Greta would be so proud that they’re not over-lubricating working surfaces or bearing races when assembly commences, no wasted grease to contaminate that otherwise surgically clean work environment.
G̶r̶a̶d̶u̶a̶t̶e̶s̶ ̶o̶f̶ dropouts from the Fred Flintstone School of Engineering.
Holy crap.
And leaving gearboxes dirty and poorly greased is why they have to rebuild them all the time, or suffer catastrophic failures right and left.
Just a tad bit of care, some simple cleanup, decent greasework, and they can still press them together like that and get away with it on ‘precision’ gearwork.
Then again, when your idea of precision is “Eh, good enough,” then there’s no real reason to worry about smutz.
It’s like Soviet tank engines up to, maybe, their T64s. It was a known thing to run the transmission and engine for 5 hours, drain both completely to remove all the now loose metal bits, and then reoil and lube the engine and tranny and they’d both run much smoother than when received from the factory. Of course, the life expectancy of most Soviet armor was, in WWII and up until recently, measured in hours on the battlefield.
I liked to know what function it has. A new PTO for your Red Dragon?
Next we’ll show you how to adjust your wristwatch with a rock.
At the 1:20 mark the camera starts to pan and you can see an old school thickness planer facing off a welded base.
A. for effort and making something in an absolute shithole.
F. for the last letter in W.T.F.
Z- for safety. SMH
Having rebuilt many gearboxes that size and larger, I now realize I wasted a lot of money on tools. And cleaning supplies. And safety gear. And I obviously cared too much about doing it right.
Yes…their method works. But the useful lifespan of what they are creating is significantly reduced compared to something done properly. What type of equipment this will be used in will make a difference also.
They dropped the pounding block on the shaft and my teeth clenched wondering how many of their teeth they chipped.
Brutal.
Clearly, Democrats in Congress at work.
And hey, we’re going global and importing that shit here. Never fear, we’ll send them dozens of PDF files of all our assembly specifications that I’m sure they’ll follow. And our contract inspector will visit the shop and make sure they’re doing things right. Low cost bidder and all that, think of the money we’re saving. Then us guys down in the plant will have to make that piece of shit work.
Third world shithole. Fuck them rag heads or Buddhists
More than likely Hindu or mooslems…
now maybe you understand why I call any tools/ machines that come from the 3rd world as “kits”. the first thing to do is take it all apart and check it out.
then IF and I mean IF it works. put it back together with lube and care.
picked up a chuck from some place. damn thing was binding like mad.
took it apart, cleaned up all of the rough edges and lubed it. now it works !
just wished I got a lister diesel engine before the ban on them.
talk about a cheap running genset !
Wished I had the spare $ when those listers or even the China diesels were cheap. The vid did hammer home why the good “how-to” guides for the gensets told you to tear the engine down & do shit like making sure all the casting sand was out of the oil/cooling passages & case.
“We predict the new Stinkistani-5000 will be ready to go to Mars about 2090!”
– Abdul Hasan Khan, Plant Mgr. (this week)
Heartfelt sympathies to the families of all of the OSHA safety inspectors that died of heart attacks while watching this video.
I loved seeing the big planer working in the background. That Utube channel shows a lot of indian/paki manufacturing. In one they build a whole Hino truck frame…
Definitely from the “use a bigger hammer, and hit it again” school of engineering.
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Same plant and crew that built the Titan submersible?
As a LONG time “Safety Team” member at a major manufacturer here in the USA I pretty much LOST it when I saw the guys in SANDALS… Yet… he still had all ten toes so go figure.
ALSO… why I think I would take a HARD PASS on any “Made In India” Royal Enfield motorcycles.
Quite a few missing fingertips in that video.
You’ll be gratified to know experts of this caliber also manufacture prescription drugs, medical devices, and supplies in facilities equal to this.
Exactly. And more to the point, many of their MDs practice medicine in exactly the same way. Of course we’re importing lots of those … people into our residency (medical training) programs and turning them loose on the public in a few short years.
An absolutely disgusting clown show. That isn’t how you wash bearings so every bearing is contaminated and improperly greased from the get go. When I saw them using a crowbar at the 11m mark to rotate the reduction gears I thought “surely they’re going to disassemble to find out why those gears aren’t turning freely” but they didn’t.
All that machinery and they’re using hand held grinders to finish the shafts.
All that machinery and space and they haven’t built a press.
A tape measure, for chrissakes?
30 years back I toured 3 China (PRC) tractor factories with a U.S. client that was looking for a low end “cheap” tractor for his retail business.
We were aghast when we realized that the oil used in the gearbox and differential was literally raw oil as pumped out of the ground, it was literally pitch black gunk. They would scoop up from a vat using a tin can and pour it in. Then we noticed that the steering links were different from machine to machine, whatever was produced by the manual operated lathes on the factory floor was good enough. The fellow was brave enough to order 16 machines, 8 fit in each container. When they arrived in USA, it ended up taking him far more hours to clean, re-lube and adjust each machine before sale than anyone could have imagined. Needless to say, no more were imported. Second amazing thing is that the diesel engines actually ran and operated, considering the tolerances were probably on par with all the other workmanship. They have come a long way, but these folks in Pakistan are effectively 100 years in the past.
Keep in mind that because of this global trend to build shit in shitty countries that doesn’t work for shit, our own younger generations are not learning how to do things the right way. In a couple of generations those pakis might be the cream of the crop.
Jesus Christ! No way that meets any tolerance that has existed in the last 100 years!
Second only to German or Japanese manufacturing, eh? I’d like to see a Chinese factory if any exist.
These guys probably work for 300 rupees a day if they are lucky.
The dirty environment is just incredible. Chinese crap Iron/steel, dust and grime everywhere, no measurement of tolerances, just cut and fit as necessary. This junk is probably going to some turd-world factory, or ship, or somesuch that needs gearboxes CHEAP and longevity is one of the LAST considerations. Hey, lets use grinders for a “perfect fit”, right? Something tells me “fit and finish” is a foreign concept to them. As long as they pump out product, who cares if it looks like a dog’s breakfast when they are done! Runout? Backlash? No words in THEIR vocabulary for THAT.
No flushing, no surface prep, no precision fit, no bearing packing. To say the least, nothing faintly resembling Quality Control.
Sure glad these “craftsmen” don’t make jet engines. Forget Rocket Science!!
Fuck me, that guy’s wearing flip flops!
No wonder those suicide bomber vests don’t work half the time.
And here I thought I was being lax by leaving a couple of thou on a non-critical air passage.
My co-worker gives me shit about the “imaginary numbers” I use. Anything around 1/2 a thou is dead nuts in his world. When I start dealing in tenths, he just shakes his head – I’m being too fussy.
In my previous job, calibrations on machines had to be +/- 2 Microns ( .002mm). Otherwise, you had to do it again. Surfaces had to be almost surgically clean and free of any defect.
So, you can imagine why anything over a couple of tenths makes me feel dirty.
To be fair, and perfectly honest, I have stooped to such butchery. I do a better job of keeping stuff clean, though. Typically it is an emergency repair of an absolutely destroyed piece of Farm Equipment. The thought being – It is junk already, what is it going to hurt? Desperate times call for desperate measures. The harvest MUST continue at all costs.
Once the job is done, and new parts are sourced, the equipment is fixed properly.
Leigh
Whitehall, NY
Wait, so for the last 40 years I’ve been doing it all wrong. I have no words.
Maybe the rules are wrong?
I had a bigger laugh reading the comments than the article. While the methods employed in the video are barbaric by our modern standards, they will be able to build machines when there is no power available and no machine tools to work with.
As this world spins toward chaos, the most modern machine shops will be at a standstill while those places in India will be in full production. The machines may only run for a short period of time, but at least they will be running. A CNC mill is useless without electric power. Time to look at sources of base power to get things done.
I want one of those trip release mechanisms. Could come in handy when it is time to dish out punishment to politicians. Rig it up so that they have to hold the end of the rope tight to keep the thing from opening after their feet are planted in cement on the X.