How a Bolt is Made - Portland Bolt & Manufacturing
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- Опубліковано 14 бер 2011
- Take a quick tour of our shop and follow an order of large anchor bolts through the manufacturing process. This video includes shearing, hot forging, threading, and galvanizing. Find out what it takes to make an order of large, custom bolts.
Wow, this is so cool. Very glad to see a real product still being Made In USA.
Way to go you, Portland Bolt. It's damn nice to see an American manufacturer still going. I hope you prosper forever. By the way, I am engineer (also have my own shop where I fabricate things), and I will remember your company. Thank you.
Many years ago, I serviced the forklifts for Portland Bolt. At the time, they stood out to me as a top quality organization. Glad to see that they are still making a quality product in the time honored American tradition.
Dude we have pubs that have been serving pints since before your continent was discovered. There's fuck all time honoured in the US.
Seán O'Nilbud You sound like you've been consistently drinking those pints served ever since....
@@CoolKoon I was just thinking the same thing! LOL
Seán O'Nilbud And thanks to newly discovered continent those pubs still serve and speak in your native language and not German. 🙂
Or Russian, or Arabic (in the latter case they wouldn't be serving AT ALL!)
I can't tell you how many of your bolts I have used through the years. I'm just glad you are still here in the USA !!!
Bandaz
Lol
@Paul Reed well said I was beginning to think I was a voice in the wilderness, thank you
@Paul Reed well said thank you
Interesting, you guys look like you make quality bolts. Thanks for posting.
I love watching how items are made. So often we take for granted common items, or the parts of a complex piece of machinery. Very interesting.
Very interesting and thank you for taking us on a tour!!
Like most blue collar guys I love this stuff. It's always good to know the how's and why's of the products and tools of the trade one works with. Great job, the video and your production facility.
Great to see an American company still in business after all these years.
I have recently retired as a mechanical engineer working in Detroit. I must say that Portland Bolt was a fabulous go to whenever it came to bolts, grades, codes, specs and materials. Their website is chock full of good information.
Richard Beehner, Jr. - Thank you for the kind words.
That's a beauty of a bolt, I would love to have one for my wall.
Very cool! Thanks for sharing!
Really nice video. Thanks!
I met some of your competition: a farmer up Highway 8, north of Hamilton, Ontario, has a $500,000 four-axis machine out in the barn, spends a few hours a day carving bolts out of raw stock, custom-made for customers like Hydro-Quebec.
"Gotta have something to do while the cows are in the field."
Fantastic video! Thanks for posting!
Awesome! These bolts are really durable and well made.
I'm a steel detailer and use the reference info on Portland Bolt's website all the time and have for a lot of years on a lot of projects. Thank you for that.
Thanks for posting this I enjoy watching how things aremade
Fascinating inside look at one of the products (production processes too) which built this country and literally help hold it together.
Great to see quality manufacturing processes such as these. 😃👌👌👏👏👏👏
Obviously seen you make bolts with your heart. Hats off
Thank you! That was very informative.
I found this video to be very interesting and informative. Thank you. Looking forward to the next one.
Very interesting and informative. Thank you!
Amazing
Thanks for all your hard work
I hope these guys catch the infrastructure rehab...I hope they can expand and give raises to everyone working there...Replace every bolt on every bridge nationwide...:)...That'll keep ya busy for a century or so...:) Nice to see old school small manufacturing...
I makes sense
Excellent video of craftsmen manufacturing specialised bolts for industry.
Quality, engineering excellence and pride of workmanship. Subscribed.
I spent 30+ years in manufacturing from literally sweeping floors to upper management. I always love watching manufacturing process steps. To me, this is the colloquial backbone of American business and economic strength.
Way cool, just love this stuff. I use fasteners a lot in my job.
I used Portland Bolt as a vendor from the late 60's until the mid 80's when I left the industry and they were my most reliable supplier. I doubt he's still there, but kudo's to Craig, the best ever.
0:55 my guy just yeets the last bar outta there! I love videos like this.
+Austin Washburn - No, all the machinery we have is designed for short run and hot formed specials. Larger production runs are typically handled by companies that have the cold forming machinery you mentioned.
Is it required to rethread after hot dip galvanisation? And thank you very much for sharing.
Very interesting. I was doing a little pickling of my own the other day.
Awesome video!
kudos to you Portland bolt.
glad you remain competitive.
it's a damned shame more people don't have faith in domestic products.
Indeed. I always wonder about that too. So many American companies willing to work, and so many of them are small Mom-n-Pop shops that can offer high quality.
Not about faith, it is about cost.
They have their faith connected with in the price.
Thanks for posting.
Cool operation!
Cool video. Turned thousands of bolts manually and CNC. Mazatrol and G-Code. Never did the forging. Thanks
Very interesting. Thank you for sharing.
Fascinating process.
That's a great video!
good luck Portland,
such a beautiful city once upon a time.
And here I thought Portland was just full of nuts! Who knew.😃
It takes a bolt to screw a lose nut!
Pop lol
Oh, there's lots of nuts, as we see on the daily news...but none of them are the hard-working men manning these factories.
that's funny very funny very funny ...ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha..
@Concerned Citizen Tweakers do this willingly.
I made a bolt and nut in shop class in junior high, but we didn't have such bigazz machinery. I had to affix my hex stock onto my shank. It stayed put for the grade, but as soon as it was put to use, it was done-for.
Actually, I figured you started out with hex stock. Boy was I wrong. :-)
This is pretty neat. I live an hour south of Portland and I specify the products you make every day at work (I'm a bridge designer)
Enjoyed your video very interesting process's thank you for sharing 👍🏼
Nice video, very interesting.
We bought our drift bolts here for the Sea Dreamer Project. Great quality.
@Six Pint Wood Works - Thank you for the positive feedback! We appreciate your business. Please let us know how we can assist with any future projects that require nonstandard construction fasteners.
Very nice. Interesting how they make those big bolts. Made in America. Right on !
Thx.
Great to see American made with pride
Nice video!
Awesome video
Amazing!
Great video! American made!
In Europe that factory would be spotless and modern.
In America it is efficient and profitable. Function over form. Similar to the way teens are concerned with their appearance whereas a mature adult is more concerned with how well they can perform in place of vanity.
I thought the factory looked modern and clean, especially the galvanizing area which is a dirty job, with acrid fumes from the salamoniac in the galvanizing tank. 😊
Nice work there...
You'd have a hard time stripping one of those bolts.
Thanks for the show.
Made in the USA
Depends on the handle length of your spanner! (see Archimedes).
Nice video, thanks!
Great job
Thanks for posting
Most interesting. I worked in a plant for a short time that did pretty much the same thing in New Westminister BC.
God Bless your Company. Prayers for Many years of prosperous operation. Made in the USA!!
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We've got one of those Landis threaders at our shop, all around great machines.
They are fantastic!
Great vid
SPECIFICITY: The language of engineers. This is remarkable. Thanks.
"That's not a Bolt; now THIS, is a Bolt", says Al.
I think you are mistaking Al for Tim.
I have wondered for some time how the hex heads where done.. thanks for the video.
Cool video , thanks
thank for sharing your video.
as a Boilermaker I've seen your products here in Canada
DLK HAY - Thank you for the comment. Even with a not-so-favorable exchange rate, we still do a lot of work in Canada. In 2018, we shipped 286 orders to 12 provinces and territories. A few of the Canadian projects we participated in during 2018 include: Eglinton Crosstown LRT - Langley, BC, Canada - October 26, 2018, Fernie Arena - Fernie, BC, Canada - October 19, 2018, Propane Dehydrogenation Plant Project - Fort Saskatchewan, AB, Canada - October 2, 2018, Nipawin Bridge - Nisku, AB, Canada - September 18, 2018. Here is a link to more information about the shipments we send to Canada: www.portlandbolt.com/technical/faqs/does-portland-bolt-ship-to-canada/. Here is a link to a map showing these destinations: www.portlandbolt.com/about/shipment-destinations/#last.
DLK HAY I chugged quite a few boilermakers when I was young.
Good work bro
Beautiful machinery
Great video. It's inspiring me to perhaps get some videos out of thing we produce here in USA also. Thanks.
My degree is in machine tool and die design and this equipment is intriguing.
Worked in a pile driver boat (USCGC Hatchet construction tender) used bolt similar to these....to hold the platform where later the channel light was placed....on the previously punched pylon into the floor of the channel.
I cant believe 452 dont like it!!, Why......been goin since 1912 & now in Al's hands, gotta be doin somthing right......cracking job.
That would be people pointing out the difference between hot dip zinc coating, and (electric current) galvanizing..!
Nice and good information
It's great to see companies who still have a passion for the products they make, that's why I try to buy American or British after that I tend to look at Germany and such like, even though it would be cheaper from China, would it be as good as the premium brands, i think not as much but I (like many others) choose "proudly made in America" products first because, they are just exactly that, God bless....
My grandpa used to buy from you guys before he bought a couple oster threaders.. i hated running that X1 we had one Landis head they are so much better... now i am an aerospace engineer. i miss the nuts and bolts game
Looks like healty place to work
Wow I did maintenance on all this machines at paintsville bolt and mfg. crush rolled threads. Used landis machines to shave rebar for threading.
Rebuildt upsetters, landis roll threaders. Man those were the days!
What happened to those plants and machines, dare I ask? Who uses threaded rebar? Was glad to read your comment!
The head forming machine is mint :o) I though it might take three operations when I clicked on?
Good Vid! These guys don't screw around when they make bolts.
An interesting video.
left school at 15 first job making hand rails on a forge similar but larger than that-3 dyes in the end a round ball drilleed with tubing .... in the uk
Good stuff
I used to do this in Vegas @ Non ferrous bolt and manufacturing company. Ran a hot header.
Very interesting video from someone who is not in engineering. If you ever make another video or an update to this one, might I suggest that you include an approximate timeframe of how long it takes to make one of these bolts from start to finish. Also, maybe show a side by side sample of the bolts from each stage of the pickling process too? Cheers
Ray O'Neill - Thank you for the feedback and suggestions. At some point in the future, we intend to update this video and will take your comments and suggestions info consideration at that time.
That's Nuts!
Thanks for no music busting our ears,
I didn't know it was LEGAL for Americans to build stuff??? holy cow!! Please keep up the great work.
Thanks!
that machine for forming the head is old.i mean 1940!but I am proud that they haven't scrapped it.American ingenuity is a great thing.
You are correct! The National Upsetters we use to hot-forge heads on bolts were probably manufactured between 1930 and 1950. Many components of these machines have been rebuilt throughout the years, but with a little TLC, they should run for another 75 years.
a lot times, really specialized machines just aren't made anymore unless you're talking a full custom build for foolish $$...
?? How is it ingenuity to keep using something that works? Makes no sense.
Pickled was thinking soaked in beer HAHA just a kidder good job guys
David Ouellette - We are in the microbrew capital of the world!
I love when people think something is so "simple" but then learn how technical and detail oriented a process is. It makes me giggle like a little school girl.
Made right here in the great Northwest!
nice video
Thank you for posting this great video and showing us how you mfr bolts! I hope in the years since posting, that you have somewhat updated your processes to make them more efficient. I hate to be the one to say it, but the labor involved seems in excess of what could be used. There's a lot of hand-handling that could be streamlined. I'm not even saying to use robots, but just by redesigning your jigs, introducing new jigs and other devices, you could make your labor more efficient. I'm not sure what your economic challenges are; whether you are protected somewhat through domestic procurement requirements, but you could protect yourself with greater efficiency. I'm not intending to just be critical, but to encourage actions that will keep more jobs here in the country. Thank you!
CuriousEarthMan - Thank you for your comments. We always welcome suggestions that will help us improve. Many construction fasteners are mass-produced using automated bolt-making equipment. These mass-produced bolts are relatively small in diameter, relatively short in length, and used in large numbers. Thousands of bolts in the same size and grade are manufactured in a single run.
We are not a mass-producer. At Portland Bolt, we manufacture larger, nonstandard bolts in relatively small quantity runs. We are essentially a job shop. We make anywhere from a single bolt to runs of a few thousand. Due to the small quantities and larger sizes, automation is a challenge. Therefore, most of the companies like our in this little niche market of making large, nonstandard bolts make them one at a time by hand. There is a certain degree of craftsmanship that takes machine operators years to perfect.
We would welcome specific examples of streamlining our processes. However, the bolts we make now have been made this way with little change since the inception of our company in 1912.
@@pdxbolt Thank you for responding! I would like to humbly submit a few detailed suggestions based on your response and your video. May I do that through email? To whom shall I address those suggestions, and to which email address? I am inspired by your long tradition of successful manufacturing, and perhaps there might be an item or two that helps you, not to correct you, but to serve your benefit in some way. Please let me know. Thank you!
@@CuriousEarthMan Please direct emails to Greg Lindsay - greg@portlandbolt.com. I look forward to hearing from you. Thanks.
I love these kind of vids. could do w/o the oddball music though.
Awesome video! Thanks so much for sharing....I wanted to learn how the threads on a 3" x 1/4" stainless steel lag bolt are derived....stamped or cut...
Hey Ken!
We do not make fasteners that small. We cut threads on all the lag screws we make from 1/2" diameter and larger.
On a lag screw that small in diameter, the threads are likely rolled.
Bad Ass American Bolts!