The Largest Drill Thread We've Machined in 60 Years (It's Literally Off The Charts!)
Publicado 2024-07-05
Welcome to HAL Heavy Duty Machining Australia, a real live Aussie machine shop based in Central Queensland that specialises in the drilling industry. In short, we fix stuff that drillers break... and make all the heavy duty custom gear they need to get the job done.
In this video we machine up a completely custom thread for our upcoming Megadrill project - a VLD (very large diameter) rig capable of drilling 3.0m diameter hole to depths of 250m!
Due to the incredible torque created, we have to machine completely custom rods that are quite literally off the scale - 40% larger than anything readily commercially available. It dwarfs an 8 5/8 reg (about as big as it gets for standard onshore rigs to my knowledge).
OD is well over 300mm
Thread length is close to 200mm
Can’t share much more specifics as it’s a custom prototype.
It’s definitely a record for the 60 year history of the company (by FAR) and MIGHT just be one of the biggest rod threads machined with the intention of being spun off the back of a road registered drill rig.
No doubt the comments section will light up like a christmas tree if not.
Which is exactly what I want.
I can't find bigger, but if someone knows of it, PLEASE let me know. No claims of an actual world record in this video... we just don't know for sure. Yet.
Enjoy, and thanks for tuning in.
Todos los comentarios (21)
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Just discovered your channel. Great machining stuff. Don't let anyone turn you down by comparing to another channels like Bomber from Florida, Cutter from Australia, Infinite Precision Man from Germany. Remember it's your channel, your shop, your rules. We like them because they are different and you should be yourself too. All the best and keep up the good work.
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I really like your work. You're not acting like you're the best. You work like Oliver on Snowball Engineering. He's also very talented and hard-working. You both do different types of jobs, but also show the same considerations for your customers and audience. Great job making something totally new from scratch.
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I thought it would be boring, turned out to be nuts.
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First time watching your channel, Awesome work! I´m an Industrial engineer from El Salvador, trying to expand my knowledge in machining and channels likes Kurtis and yours are a god send for that purpose. Keep it up, I´ll be waiting for more videos.
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"now we gotta cut 30 more of them" 🤣
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Kong is big but I hate to tell you, Kurtis from Down Under at Cutting Edge Engineering has it beat by 3 miles. . Specifically, it weights 209.5 lbs or 95 Kilo's and is 125 MM (4.9 inch) bar and 1100 MM long (3.6 Ft) with 900 MM (2.9Ft) of reach. . It's King Kong of boring bars. . Has to use an overhead crane to get it off the floor. . It's so big it's funny.
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Looks beautiful. So very shiny. Can't wait to see part 2 for the other part. . very exciting.
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Ah yes, the forbidden pink lemonade 👌🏻
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Love seeing your videos - it takes me back to my younger years working in heavy machining and making proper parts ! I remember making some bespoke couplings for the north sea oil industry here in the UK many moons ago. we didn't have a lathe big enough to make them so we made them on a huge horizontal borer, and had to cut 1800mm diameter acme threads almost 1 meter deep. Much slower than turning but we got the job done and the customer was more than happy !!
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I recall as a kid watching my Dad cut 7/8 14 tpi for an old Allis Chalmers Combine. To go next size up cause 3/4 was chewed up. soooo long ago. Thank You for keeping the craft up and running 😉👍❤️
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People always are shocked by the big stuff. I’ve only ever worked in a heavy machining shop so an M580 nut (a samllish for us) isn’t really that big. Great video. Love a shop made tool also.
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Just ran across your channel. Very nice and interesting video, and I like your attitude. Nobody anywhere knows it all. As long as we keep learning, we keep growing. Cheers!
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Hey dude new subscriber here. Gotta say I really enjoy your content and seeing someone passionate sharing makes it even better. It’s nice to see all the machine work in Australia like cutting edge engineering if you heard of him. Keep up the good work Best regards from Switzerland
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Talk to you regularly great to see my tooling working
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loving this, cheers from the other Sunshine State, Florida USA...Paulie
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I just found your channel by coincidence and was immediately catched by your voice and explanation. Great camera work also! Love it. Greetings from German🙋♂️
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Very cool. I love watching machining and custom metal work. Would have been really cool to see some pics of the machine that its for.
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Just gotta love the incanink! Lotsa talented people out there. Some are really good when it comes to offering up sound advice. Yeah big stuff always attracts interest. Interesting vid. Don't see a lot of Aussie stuff, so all good. In small scale manufacturing myself, but vastly different field.
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Thank you for the video and explanation 👍
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Love the videos, not to many ads, so i watch till the end, Not GREEDY LIKE SOME. no bullshit just great content. Thanks. Look forward to next week.
