On this episode of Rottler Featured Series, join us in El Paso, Texas at Mike & Son’s Machine Shop.

Family owned and operated, Mike & Sons is an automotive-specific machine shop, focusing on engine rebuilds for everything from daily grocery getters to classic cars and performance work.

Machinist Chris Palumbo told us that as a family operation, every engine they work on they treat with care as if it were there own personal engine. To get the quality of work they demand, Chris and his father-in-law, Mike Garcia, rely on a quartet of Rottler machines including an SG9 seat & guide machine, an HP6A (precursor to the H85AX) hone, an EM69ATC engine machining center, and a classic Rottler F2.

Chris tells us he needs precision to maintain modern standards and the EM69ATC delivers. It has “endless capabilities,” he said.

Mike backed him up on the quality of the Rottler equipment too. “Once you see the quality of the work the machine turns out… when I saw the first cut Chris made with the [SG9], I said ‘I should have bought this a long time ago,” he said.

If you’re down in El Paso and you need engine work, you can be sure that Mike & Sons will deliver. Check out their story!

On this episode of Rottler Featured Series we head out to Phoenix, Arizona to see Robert Tanquery and his shop, RNR Custom Engines.

RNR is a custom engine machine shop that rebuilds everything from Cummins diesels to Chevy LS engines, as well as all manners of classics like Pontiacs, AMCs, and even the rare Mercedes gullwing.

Their extensive tooling and machine line-up allows them to take on engine rebuilds that no one else can, which Tanquery says is a blessing and a curse (the good kind).

Talking about his suite of Rottler equipment in his shop – an F69ATC (now the EM69ATC), the H85AX hone, SG9 seat & guide machine, and an S86A surfacer, he admits to being “flabbergasted” at how much business they bring.

Even vintage car collector and racer, Craig Jackson, brings his cars to RNR. That includes the 1967 Mustang that used to be Caroll Shelby’s daily driver, Tanquery told us.

“Having these Rottlers on the floor gave us quadruple the work,” he said. “Once word got out, people were bringing us everything. We couldn’t do it without (Rottler).”

For us here at Rottler, we couldn’t be more pleased to be part of RNR Custom Engine’s success. Check out the video!

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