Here he is with his new Baileigh Industrial MH-19 Power Hammer!

See a shop tour: http://www.factoryfive.com/company.html

They showed up at SEMA this year with some truly amazing cars: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMkwV6B3m74

Factory Five is dedicated to producing quality parts using the Baileigh Industrial BP-3350 Hydraulic Press Brake to meet their high production demands.

Here is what they have to say about their new press brake:
“The press has reduced our time used for bending parts. The accuracy and repeatability is great. We are very impressed with the quality and ease of use.”

Jesper Ingerslev
Director of Engineering
Factory Five Racing
Check out their website: www.factoryfive.com

Baileigh Industrial offers a full line of press brakes to handle back yard projects all the way up to full blown production runs like this.

On Sunday October 16^th, 2011 a couple of such accidents took place.  The first being the crash that took the life of two-time Indianapolis 500 winner Dan Wheldon, when his car got caught up in a 15-car pileup, sailed over another vehicle and smashed into a catch fence at IndyCar’s season ending race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.  The race was called and a five lap parade was help in his honor.  A crash like this makes one remember that these drivers are human and that these drivers risk their life every time they strap into a car.

The second accident happened just a short time later, but it was not on the race track.  Champion off-road racer Rick Huseman was killed in a plane crash near Barstow, California.  Rick was a good friend and long time rival of Scott Douglas who drives for Baileigh Industrial in many of the same events as Rick.  Rick has been racing 1997 and was the first PRO4X4 Traxxas TORC Series Championship in 2009, garnering six wins and 10 podium finishes. In 2010, Huseman won the Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series Pro-4 Championship.  Once again this is a grim reminder of how precious life is and that it cannot be taken for granted.

What will we learn from both of these accidents?  I am not sure but it will give us all a wakeup call to the reality of life and that every day we must strive to make it the best that we can.  I am sure both Dan and Rick have done that.

Here is Chris’ explanation of the project

“This airplane is a built from plans project, there is no kit and every part needs to be handmade.  The airplane is called a Pietenpol aircamper designed in 1929 by Bernard Pietenpol.  The original design is intended to use a Ford Model “A” 4 cylinder car engine.  Although, I have 2 of those engines, I decided to try to find a more modern inline 4 cylinder with similar displacement and power as the model “A”.  All of the car engines I looked at make all their power at too high of an rpm, so that led me to industrial engines, and that’s where I found the engine shown in the video.  It is from a Mitsubishi forklift and makes all of it power at a very low rpm.”

Chris goes on to say, “I totally rebuilt the engine using modern race engine components, (ARP® studs, forged pistons, forged rods, ported heads, stainless valves, etc….) The engine was dyno ran several times before being mounted on the plane, and the engine makes 90 hp (the original model “A” engine made 45 hp) This video is showing the final test of running a very large prop which is most efficient and as you can see it worked real well pulling 280 lbs of thrust where 250 is what required.”

Great Job Chris!  Keep us posted on the progress

Additional distribution / service centers are planned to open throughout the world in the upcoming years.  Further details will be disclosed as they become available.

http://www.baileighindustrial.com/blog/our-new-club-house-from-baileigh/

Chuck is always braggin’ around his airplane buddies about the quality of his MSS-14H Shrinker Stretcher.  He sends us movies and pictures from time to time of the work his guys in the shop do. Chuck gave us a ring a couple weeks back looking for a bead roller. He was in the process of re-skinning a 1943 Curtiss Helldiver.

Not impressed with the standard bead rollers on the market, he went with our new heavy duty 16 gauge bead roller. The BR-16E-36 gave Chuck the throat depth, adjustability, and capacity he was looking for.

Here is some 2024-T3 Aluminum .062″ thick. Chuck will be sending pictures of his progress of the plane. Check back for updates!

Baileigh Industrial offers a full line of bead rollers, from entry level to industrial. Hand crank Bead Rollers, Electric Bead Rollers and Heavy Duty Bead Rollers.

Hand Crank Bead Rollers

Electric Bead Rollers

Heavy Duty Bead Rollers

As some of you know our E-Model metal lathes come with a pretty cool feature, a quick change tool post and four tool holders.  And lately some questions have come up about sizes and industry standards when talking to customers about this topic.  Here’s what I can tell you about it.

• Our E model lathes come with a tool post with model number of 250-200.  This tool post is imported to the US under the name Phase II.  These tool holders with hold up to a 5/8” square tool.  The holders for this tool post can also be bought separately by doing a Google search of “250-202 quick change holder” or “250-201 quick change holder”.  Now, both of these will do the same thing, but the 250-202 has a V-Groove in the bottom of the holder so it can hold a boring bar.

• Some customers do not recognize this style of tool post and holder, but there is an industry standard that they will know.  The 250-200 is the same as “BXA” style and the 250-201 is a BXA-1 and the 250-202 is a BXA-2

• Now, there are other tool holders and tool posts available.  In the Phase II style there are models 250-100, 250-200 and 250-300.  The 100, 200, 300 designates the size of the tool post and holders. The corresponding numbers for these are AXA, BXA, and CXA.  The 100 or AXA being for 1/2″ square tooling, 200 or BXA for 5/8″, and 300 or CXA for 3/4″.

• Remember, if you have a 200 series tool post, only 200 or BXA series tool holders will fit it and in order to use other tool holders different tool post will have to be bought.

This particular customer, asked Baileigh Industrial Limited, located in Coventry England, to special order a machine that was capable of bending over 6000 bed frames a year in mild steel square box section. The MB-35NCH-1-SD was the perfect fit for this customer. This hydraulic mandrel bender will do this easily, as it is capable of bending 0-180 degrees in 2.7 seconds, and has an NC controller with the ability to store multiple jobs, while the hydraulic pressure die and pressure die assist ensure a great looking bend. The MB-35NCH-1-SD features a hydraulic split die system, with a hydraulically releasing top plate on the former die; means the operator can very quickly and easily remove the square section from the tooling and keep up with the high levels of production the company demands.

Call us with your Mandrel Bender application, we have the machines and expertise to provide you with the right solution.

Owners; Bob and Mary Levenhagen have built this empire of Off Road Awesomeness from the ground up with no signs of slowing down.

Check out their website and give them a call.

www.tntcustoms.com or 307-775-9565

They have a shop filled with Baileigh equipment and crank out full blown production all day, everyday.

All tube bending is done on the RDB-250 tube bender with a 10 foot indexing table.

All tube notching is done on the TN-300 Tube Notcher.

All the sheet metal and plate bending will be done on their brand new BP-12313CNC Press Brake. A 13 Foot CNC Press Brake that produces 123 Tons!

Bob is a straight shooter and does not sugar coat it. Call Bob and ask him what he thinks of his Baileigh equipment.

Mars Becomes First Firecracker 100 Repeat Winner With Flawless Performance Saturday Night At Lernerville Speedway

SARVER, PA – June 25, 2011 – Jimmy Mars of Menomonie, Wis., turned the fifth annual Firecracker 100 presented by GottaRace.com into a personal joy-ride on Saturday night, romping to his second career triumph in the crown-jewel World of Outlaws Late Model Series event at Lernerville Speedway.

Driving the same MB Customs car that he steered to the checkered flag in the 2009 edition of the summer-starting spectacular, Mars navigated forward from the seventh starting spot to grab the lead from 2007 Firecracker 100 winner Scott Bloomquist of Mooresburg, Tenn., on lap 45 and never looked back. He cruised around the four-tenths-mile oval to post a commanding 4.434-second margin of victory over Bloomquist.

Mars, 39, pocketed $30,050 as he became the first repeat winner of the Firecracker 100, which was contested in front of a massive crowd and the SPEED television cameras. His latest success, however, came in much less dramatic fashion than in ‘09 when he pitted early to change a cut tire and rallied to snatch the lead from Darrell Lanigan of Union, Ky., in the final laps.

“This route (to victory) went a little bit smoother,” said Mars, who registered his fourth career win on the WoO LMS. “Usually it seems like all of my bigger wins have been kind of an uphill battle, but tonight went pretty good. Once we were able to get up to the front and kind of run the line that I wanted to, everything was just awesome.”

The 46-year-old Bloomquist, who started third and led laps 31-44, ran roughly a straightaway behind Mars throughout the 53-lap stretch of green-flag racing that closed the race. He was clearly second-best – unable to keep his self-built Team Zero mount close to Mars, but also never in danger of losing the runner-up spot.

WoO LMS points leader Rick Eckert of York, Pa., who started from the pole position and led laps 1-30, finished a distant third, 14.715 seconds behind Mars and over 10 seconds in arrears of Bloomquist. It was a career-best placing in the Firecracker 100 for Eckert, who put a $7,650 cap on a weekend that also included runner-up finishes in both 30-lap WoO LMS preliminary A-Mains.

Two-time defending WoO LMS champion Josh Richards of Shinnston, W.Va., also recorded a career-high finish in the Firecracker 100, using a late-race surge to take fourth in his father Mark’s Rocket Chassis house car. He found an outside lane around the track to move from eighth to fourth over the final 30 circuits, falling just a car length short of Eckert at the checkered flag.

Steve Shaver of Vienna, W.Va., completed the top five in the K&L Rumley Rocket car. He started from the outside pole and held second place until losing the spot on a lap-18 restart and ultimately falling two more positions over the remaining distance.

Mars, who finished fourth in Thursday night’s preliminary feature but didn’t compete on Friday evening due to an engine issue, began to show his superiority about a quarter of the way into the 100. A relatively quiet fifth when the race’s third of four caution flags flew on lap 18 for a turn-four spin by Clint Smith of Senoia, Ga., Mars soon turned up the wick, grabbing fourth from Dale McDowell of Chickamauga, Ga., shortly after the restart, third from Shaver on lap 28 and second from Eckert on lap 38.

The Wisconsinite’s relentless march to the front was complete when he ducked underneath Bloomquist off turn two and surged into the lead on lap 45.

“Once my (hard-compound) tires started to get a little bit of heat in them they started working,” said Mars, whose last WoO LMS win came on July 10, 2010, at Dakota State Fair Speedway in Huron, S.D. “(Bloomquist) kind of left the bottom open so we got in the lead and it worked out.”

After the race’s final caution flag was needed on lap 47 when Austin Hubbard of Seaford, Del., slowed with MSD box problems, Mars simply drove away from the field in one of the most dominant performances on the 2011 tour. He scarcely let up, lapping up to the 10th-place finisher.

“You just don’t know what’s gonna happen when you haven’t won for a while,” Mars said of his continued aggressiveness despite holding a substantial lead. “I’ve been too passive in lapped cars before and got snooked in lapped traffic, and I wasn’t gonna let that happen.”

Bloomquist had no answer for Mars’s speed, but he did question its source. Following the race Bloomquist lodged a formal protest with WoO LMS officials concerning Mars’s tires; as a result, Mars’s left-rear and right-front Hoosier tires were impounded to be sent off for detailed laboratory testing underwritten by Bloomquist.

“If the tires are right, we just want to know if they’re right,” Bloomquist told DirtonDirt.com when asked about his decision. “Sometimes it’s good to be sure just to keep everybody honest. My hat will be off twice as high if everything comes back (correct) on tires. It’s not about – again, he had a good car. He looked good out there tonight. I just know that the difference between second and first is substantial.”

Mars flatly denied Bloomquist’s accusation of tire doctoring in an interview with DirtonDirt.com following the event.

Eckert, meanwhile, fell short in his bid to top off his successful visit to Lernerville with a flourish.

“I just made (the car) way too tight for the race,” said Eckert, who ended the Firecracker 100 weekend with a 16-point edge over Richards. “I was pretty sure, as tight as I was when we fired off, that I was gonna have a hard time fending (Bloomquist) off. I just couldn’t rotate the center of the corner. I could early, but I knew I was using a lot of wheel to do it – and then as soon as I overheated the right-front tire I was dead in the water. I didn’t want to see any cautions because I was fading in a hurry.”

Richards, 23, was the hard-charger of the race’s late stages after discovering a very useful outside line around the oval.

“I wish I would’ve gone up there earlier,” said Richards, who reached fourth with a lap-97 pass of Shaver. “I don’t think we were good enough to beat Mars, but I knew we could’ve beat Scott and Eckert. I was up on Eckert’s bumper there at the end, but it was too late. I didn’t want the race to end.”

Tim McCreadie of Watertown, N.Y., finished sixth, marking the second consecutive night that he ended the race in the same position that he started it. Tim Fuller, also of Watertown, N.Y., placed seventh, followed by McDowell, who ran as high as fourth; Dan Stone of Thompson, Pa., who started 21 st in the Leo Milus-owned Super Duece; and 2010 Firecracker 100 winner Shane Clanton of Fayetteville, Ga., who was the first driver one lap down at the finish.

Lanigan, who finished second in the last three Firecracker 100s, was never a factor. He moved from the 16th starting spot to 10th by lap 20, but he couldn’t climb any higher and ultimately faded to 13th at the checkered flag.

The race’s first two caution flags were caused by Rookie of the Year leader Pat Doar of New Richmond, Wis., who slowed with a flat left-rear tire on lap two, and Clint Smith, who spun off the backstretch on lap four after getting jostled around in a tangle.

Sixty cars were entered in the final night of the Firecracker 100 weekend.

With Saturday night’s heat races lined up using drivers’ best finish from the Thursday and Friday preliminary action, the 10-lap qualifiers were captured by Bloomquist, Brady Smith of Solon Springs, Wis., Eckert, McCreadie, Shaver and McDowell. The B-Mains were won by Jared Miley of South Park, Pa., Jared Hawkins of Fairmont, W.Va., and Stone.

Matt Lux of Franklin, Pa., salvaged a rough weekend at Lernerville with a victory in the ‘Uncle Sam 30’ Non-Qualifiers’ Race that preceded the Firecracker 100.

Lux, who repaired his car after it sustained significant damage in an opening-lap tangle during Friday night’s preliminary A-Main, passed Eric Wells of Hazard, Ky., for the lead on lap 13 of the ‘Uncle Sam’ event and never looked back. He beat 2009 WoO LMS Rookie of the Year Russell King of Bristolville, Ohio, to the finish line by 1.559 seconds to pocket a cool $3,000 consolation prize.

The Firecracker 100 presented by GottaRace.com will be broadcast on Sat., July 9, at 1 p.m. Eastern Time as a two-hour special event on the SPEED cable network.

The WoO LMS will contest another extra-distance special over the Independence Day weekend with the running of the inaugural ‘Outlaw Sizzler 101’ on July 2-3 at Tazewell (Tenn.) Speedway. A $20,000 top prize will be on the line at the high-banked, one-third-mile oval.

For more information on the WoO LMS, visit www.worldofoutlaws.com.

Results of WoO Late Model Series (Finishing Position/Start/Driver/Laps

Completed/Money Won):

1. (7) Jimmy Mars/100 $30,050

2. (5) Scott Bloomquist/100 $15,175

3. (1) Rick Eckert/100 $7,650

4. (8) Josh Richards/100 $6,650

5. (2) Steve Shaver/100 $5,000

6. (6) Tim McCreadie/100 $4,650

7. (9) Tim Fuller/100 $3,550

8. (4) Dale McDowell/100 $2,500

9. (21) Dan Stone/100 $2,250

10. (17) Shane Clanton/99 $2,550

11. (25) Chub Frank/99 $2,450

12. (18) Jonathan Davenport/99 $1,800

13. (16) Darrell Lanigan/99 $2,350

14. (13) Austin Hubbard/99 $2,150

15. (15) Pat Doar/99 $2,300

16. (22) Mike Marlar/99 $1,400

17. (19) Jared Miley/99 $1,300

18. (10) Clint Smith/99 $1,750

19. (12) Tyler Reddick/99 $1,100

20. (11) Vic Coffey/98 $1,550

21. (20) Jared Hawkins/98 $1,000

22. (26) John Lobb/97 $1,025

23. (24) Ron Davies/97 $1,550

24. (27) Dave Hess Jr./46 $1,000

25. (23) Rick 멊oom? Briggs/45 $1,000

26. (14) Bub McCool/45 $1,000

27. (28) Gregg Satterlee/34 $1,000

28. (3) Brady Smith/17 $1,000

* Earnings include Winners Circle program and cash contingency award bonuses

Time of Race: 49 Mins., 5.528 Secs.

Margin of Victory: 4.434 Secs.

Yellow Flags: 4 (Laps 2, 4, 18, 47)

Lap Leaders: Eckert (1-30); Bloomquist (31-44); Mars (45-100)

Provisional Starters: Frank, Lobb (WoO); Hess, Satterlee (track)

Rookie of the Race: Doar ($250)

Heat No. 1 (10 laps – Top 3 Transfer): 1. Scott Bloomquist, 2. Jimmy Mars, 3. Austin Hubbard, 4. Jared Miley, 5. Eric Wells, 6. Chub Frank, 7. Matt Lux, 8. Dave Hess Jr., 9. Greg Oakes (DNS) Nick Reges

Heat No. 2 (10 laps – Top 3 Transfer): 1. Brady Smith, 2. Josh Richards, 3. Bub McCool, 4. Mike Marlar, 5. John Lobb, 6. Gregg Satterlee, 7. John Mason, 8. Tommy Beck, 9. Herman Bertolini, 10. Scott Smith

Heat No. 3 (10 laps – Top 3 Transfer): 1. Rick Eckert, 2. Tim Fuller, 3. Pat Doar, 4. Rick 멊oom? Briggs, 5. Ken Schaltenbrand, 6. Russell King, 7. Gary Lyle, 8. Donald Bradsher, 9. Garrett Krummert, 10. Steve Francis

Heat No. 4 (10 laps – Top 3 Transfer): 1. Tim McCreadie, 2. Clint Smith, 3. Darrell Lanigan, 4. Jared Hawkins, 5. Davey Johnson, 6. Lynn Geisler, 7. John Mollick, 8. Brian Tavenner, 9. Jeff Jones (DNS) Ryan Scott

Heat No. 5 (10 laps – Top 3 Transfer): 1. Steve Shaver, 2. Vic Coffey, 3. Shane Clanton, 4. Dan Stone, 5. Mike Johnson, 6. Chip Brindle, 7. John Garvin, 8. Jill George (DNS) Chris Schneider, Ray Kroll Sr.

Heat No. 6 (10 laps – Top 3 Transfer): 1. Dale McDowell, 2. Tyler Reddick, 3. Jonathan Davenport, 4. Coleby Frye, 5. Ron Davies, 6. Jacob Hawkins, 7. Chris Casner, 8. Tony Burke, 9. Jim Detman, 10. Derrick Casner

B-Main No. 1 (12 laps – Top 2 Transfer): 1. Jared Miley, 2. Mike Marlar, 3. Eric Wells, 4. Chub Frank, 5. Dave Hess Jr., 6. Greg Oakes, 7. Matt Lux, 8. Gregg Satterlee, 9. John Mason, 10. John Lobb, 11. Tommy Beck, 12. Herman Bertolini (DNS) Nick Reges, Scott Smith

B-Main No. 2 (12 laps – Top 2 Transfer): 1. Jared Hawkins, 2. Rick 멊oom? Briggs, 3. Ken Schaltenbrand, 4. Russell King, 5. Davey Johnson, 6. Lynn Geisler, 7. John Mollick, 8. Garrett Krummert, 9. Gary Lyle, 10. Brian Tavenner, 11. Donald Bradsher, 12. Jeff Jones (DNS) Steve Francis, Ryan Scott

B-Main No. 3 (12 laps – Top 2 Transfer): 1. Dan Stone, 2. Ron Davies, 3. Coleby Frye, 4. Jacob Hawkins, 5. Chip Brindle, 6. Mike Johnson, 7. John Garvin, 8. Chris Casner, 9. Derrick Casner, 10. Chris Schneider, 11. Jill George, 12. Jim Detman, 13. Tony Burke (DNS) Ray Kroll Sr.

‘Uncle Sam 30’ Non-Qualifiers’ Race Finish (30 laps): 1. Matt Lux ($3,000); 2. Russell King ($1,500); 3. Coleby Frye ($800); 4. Chip Brindle ($700); 5. Jacob Hawkins ($600); 6. John Mason ($500); 7. Greg Oakes ($400); 8. Gary Lyle ($375); 9. Tommy Beck ($350); 10. Ken Schaltenbrand ($325); 11. Chris Schneider ($300); 12. Brian Tavenner ($300); 13. Derrick Casner ($270); 14. Donald Bradsher ($260); 15. Jeff Jones ($250); 16. Herman Bertolini ($240); 17. Garrett Krummert ($230); 18. Jim Detman ($220); 19. Chris Casner ($210); 20. Lynn Geisler ($200); 21. John Mollick ($200); 22. Jill George ($200); 23. Eric Wells ($200); 24. Mike Johnson ($200); 25. John Garvin ($200); 26. Tony Burke ($200); DNS – Davey Johnson