On this Episode of Rottler Featured Series, join us at Heinlein Diesel and Machine in Rogersville, MO where we meet up with owner Tyler Heinlein.

Heinlein’s main focus is working on light duty diesel pickups, doing transmissions, engine repairs and performance upgrades. He started the business back in 2015 as solo operation with a couple of work bays and some basic tools.

These days he’s still a one-man shop, but he’s got a whole team working for him in the form of a trio Rottler machines — and H85 hone, an F69 multi-purpose machining center, and a SG9MTS seat & guide machine.

“I’m not a guy who came from CNC machines, but Rottler makes it easy,” Heinlein said. “I have no problem using the RPath software.”

When it gets down to it, it’s Rottler’s “set it and walk away” automation that’s the game changer. “The H85 hone paid for itself right away. That was real eye opener,” he said. “I’m doing the work of a team while still being one person.”

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On this episode of Rottler Featured Series, join us in Friedheim, Missouri with Jeff Baldwin of Baldwin Racing Engines.

Baldwin Racing Engines opened back in 2002 as an automotive repair shop but quickly evolved in a full-service automotive and competition machine shop that works on everything from Japanese mini trucks up to Cat C15s and Cummins ISX engines.

Their entry into the performance engine world began back in 2003-04, but really opened up in 2005 when he built the championship-winning engines for Mark Todd for three years in a row. Since then, they’ve built a name for themselves in LS late model dirt track and derby engines winning multiple championships for drivers like Scott Bloomquist and Nick Hoffman.

Baldwin credits a lot of his success to the specialty machining services — blueprinting cam tunnels, lifter bores, surfacing, and other high precision work they do with their Rottler equipment, which includes the H85AX automatic hone and an F60 series multi-purpose machining center. He notes that the Rottler machines give them the ability to refine surface finish, the key to ring seal and drawing every ounce of power out of the engine they can. A big difference, especially in the two-barrel restricted engines where the rules strictly limit what they’re allowed to do.

Over the past two decades Baldwin Racing Engines has earned an unmatched reputation for engines that win championships, and we’re pleased that Rottler is there to help with the best equipment and technology the industry has to offer.

For this episode of Rottler Featured Series, we’re in Springfield, Illinois at Capital City Machine Shop, owned by legendary funny car racer Tim Wilkerson.

Growing up in the 1970’s, Tim loved things fast and loud, and racing became his passion. Not being made of money, he originally started his shop so he could do his own engine work. Eventually though, the hobby became a job and in 1999 he opened Capital City Machine.

These days Capital City is the premier machine shop general automotive, farm & agriculture, marine and performance engine work, drawing business from the entire region between Chicago and St Louis. He’s also still running his nitro funny car team, Tim Wilkerson Racing.

Being a leading engine shop, naturally Capital City Machine is also a great Rottler Manufacturing partner, and has a suite of our equipment helping him work his magic for his customers. Talking to shop manager Jeff Jacobs, we learned that his “team” includes himself and four Rottler machines: an H85AX CNC hone, an SG series seat & guide machine, an EM69 5-axis CNC engine machining center, and an F series multi-purpose CNC machine.

Jacob’s favorite part of his team? Rottler’s “set it and forget it” automation lets him set a job up and walk away. He and his “team” can be doing the work of five guys and he knows they’ll all deliver the precision work Capital City’s customers and Wilkerson’s racing team demand.

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This week on the Rottler Featured Series we’re in Guildford, Indiana to see our old friend Tony Bischoff at BES Racing Engines.

Tony has been in the engine building business for almost 40 years and won the Engine Masters Challenge 5 or 6 times (so many that he’s not quite sure).

The secret to his success? Being a Rottler customer for over two decades. In Tony’s shop he runs an EM69 engine machining center, an F69 automatic machining center, and multiple H85AX hones.

Tony and the crew at BES credit their ability to build better engines faster to their use of Rottler machines — so much so that pretty much every engine they build goes through a Rottler machine!

We’re proud to be an important part of BES’ success. Watch the video!

For this episode of the Rottler Featured Series we head to Lexington, Kentucky, home of SRC of Lexington Engine Remanufacturers.

SRC of Lexington specializes in engine reman for the high horsepower, heavy duty engines used in mining, heavy construction, landfill operations, and gas generation. To bring these monster blocks back to a condition as good, and often better than, new, the team at SRC of Lexington relies on a suite of Rottler’s biggest and best machines including the F60 series engine centers, S80 surfacers, and a team of EM100 series to machine the monster blocks they work on.

SRC of Lexington has relied on Rottler equipment to get the job done for 22 years, and we are proud to be a partner with this great employee-owned company.

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For episode 19 of the Rottler Featured Series, we’re in Piney Flats, Tennessee, home of Straub Technologies.

There we catch up with Chris Straub & company to see how he and his people use their suite of Rottler Machinery (they have one of every machine we make!) to keep the business running even when the lights are off.

Chris and his four guys leverage Rottler’s automation features—set it and forget it—to do the work of 12 people.

The machines you’ll see in the video include:

• F69 – Programmable Automatic Machining Center
• EM69HP – CNC Machining Center
• SG9MTS – Seat & Guide Machine
• H85AXY – Automatic Vertical Honing Machine