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Office and Legacy Walkthrough

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Rottler Manufacturing: The Unsung Hero of Combustion Engines (100 Years of Made In America)

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The tour continues through the main office area, which serves as a 'hall of heritage,' displaying numerous cool hand-drawn diagrams and engineering blueprints by the Rottler family members. Ryan explains that Andy Rottler, the current owner, is the third generation to lead the company. The company evolved from 'Rottler Boring Bar Company' to 'Rottler Manufacturing' as it diversified into various other machining technologies like surfacers and CNC machines, capable of handling everything from small block general engines to large industrial diesel and gas engines (F80 series from the mid-80s).

Goal: Showcase company growth and engineering history

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the h85a h85ax and axy machines automated hold a hole around 1970s is when Rottler originally started getting into the honing business we started with the old swing arm machines and uh directly competing with sun and ck10s and progress through that era up to this most modern era so which model is this going to be when it's done it's like it's going to be an ax so you know by the motor so the X means it moves in x-axis so we we do a rack and pinion design which allows these to be CNC controlled and go pull the hole for each engine so is it basically like you got a couple guys putting on one machine at a time yeah so they'll build them about like this for we can do four to five at a time uh usually one Tech will build the whole thing through and through we'll swap out and help out for some things it is probably the most U.S made machine that I know of most of the components are coming directly out of Washington so the whole tank and everything is just is in Washington state we machine all all the components ourselves here for the finish work other than the motors themselves is pretty much everything on this thing is is U.S made and manufactured and assembled and that's something that I know Andy is very very proud of what amazes me on those is how sensitive they

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