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world's most expensive yeti water bottle (new machine incoming)
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david n
Diamond
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- Pillager, MN
What kind of foundation work went into this project?
eKretz
Diamond; Mod Squad
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- Mar 27, 2005
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- Northwest Indiana, USA
Booze Daily
Titanium
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- Sep 18, 2015
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- Ohio
It wasn’t even a nice one. It was one of the cheap-ass plastic ones with the logo printed on it.
none. 9" concrete. the only 'work' was laser aligning all the anchors.
the fact that the machine weight is spread out over such a large area, and once bolted - its pretty rigid, means that it doesnt need a crazy foundation.
was a pretty tight fit... had about half inch on each side through the door
rigging up
on the hook
almost there
so thats really all the work that was done to the foundation, positioning all the anchors and shims to level the machine
and the front section is in place!
rigging up
on the hook
almost there
so thats really all the work that was done to the foundation, positioning all the anchors and shims to level the machine
and the front section is in place!
now that you say it, not a bad idea!
jccaclimber
Stainless
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- Nov 22, 2015
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- San Francisco
What sort of lift truck is being used with the overhead crane? I haven’t seen one like that before.
no idea, might be a custom deal
Speedie
Stainless
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- Feb 24, 2009
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- Midwestern MN/Wi USA
'Anyone seen Bob this month?....I found his chair and a bunch of fast food remnants inside the Zimmerman'
CAMasochism
Stainless
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- Jun 6, 2019
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- DFW, Texas
Yeti truck bed liner, individual compartments for food, drink, fish. You'll corner the redkneck market! You'll just need a 3 story rotary molding machine.
EmGo
Diamond
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- Apr 14, 2018
- Location
- Over the River and Through the Woods
Don't even say that ... there was a big gantry mill, I think in Canada or upper Michigan, Wisconsin way ? (Sorry, they are all the same to a west coast guy). Guy was working by himself late at night and something happened, they came in to find the body in the morning. He got in the way of a tool change or something ... these big guys, they have no mercy.
sooo stupid...
We were not allowed to work alone, rightly so, I’ve seen several people killed in work and a couple who just died ( heart attacks usually) big machines and people are not best company, spent a night digging in a coke silo for one guy who disappeared, eventually the silo was dropped but he had passed away, tragic always watch out for each other even if you can’t stand them, they still need to be safe
Mark
Mark
about 15k lbs of aluminum waiting to get turned into mostly chips
Test cut results, cone tilted at 7.5 degree angle and machined with 5ax swarf in step downs. i was pretty blown away at how clean and smooth it looked, cant see or feel the step downs or where it enters/exits the cut
some of the fixturing starting to arrive
first part loaded in!
overall extremely impressed not only with the machine, but how Zimmerman has treated us throughout the process, this was their fastest install so far, from the time we issued PO, to machine functioning on the floor was right around 2 months.
currently machine only has MQL for lubrication, and air blast for chip removal, our cooling system is being built and should arrive in september, gonna suck a bit untill then...
Test cut results, cone tilted at 7.5 degree angle and machined with 5ax swarf in step downs. i was pretty blown away at how clean and smooth it looked, cant see or feel the step downs or where it enters/exits the cut
some of the fixturing starting to arrive
first part loaded in!
overall extremely impressed not only with the machine, but how Zimmerman has treated us throughout the process, this was their fastest install so far, from the time we issued PO, to machine functioning on the floor was right around 2 months.
currently machine only has MQL for lubrication, and air blast for chip removal, our cooling system is being built and should arrive in september, gonna suck a bit untill then...