Rickly Hydro has 34,500 sq.ft of manufacturing space sitting on 3 acres in Columbus Ohio. All Hydro System components are manufactured in the USA and in Columbus we manufacture all Crossflow Turbine, Pelton Wheel Turbine and Turgo Turbine Components, complete runner, housings, nozzle jets, base assemblies, generator mounts, couplings and control panels for a complete Hydro system. We also manufacture Penstock intake inlet boxes, as well as trash and fish screens, control gates and gate frames and outlet tailstocks both straight and funnel designs. Many of these are based on custom designs per specific site specifications.
Rickly Hydro has 20 plus CNC Machines as well as manual and a complete fabrication welding and laser cutting shop. Also in-house is a precision investment casting foundry for stainless steel Pelton and Turgo buckets.
A partial listing follows:
- HAAS EC-500
- CNC 4 Axis Horizontal Machining Center

- HAAS MDC-500
- Double Pallet CNC Machining Center

- HAAS HS-1
- CNC Horizontal Machining Canter, 4-Axis
- 2 on the shop floor

- HAAS VF-4SS
- CNC Super Speed Vertical Machining Center, 4-Axis

- HAAS VF-4
- CNC Vertical Machining Center, 4-Axis

- HAAS VF-3
- CNC Vertical Machining Center, 4-Axis

- HAAS VF-OE
- CNC Vertical Machining Center, 4-Axis


- HAAS SL-20
- CNC Lathe Turning Center with bar feeder
- 2 on the shop floor

- HAAS OL-10
- CNC Lathe-Precision Gang Tooling
- Three on the shop floor

- HAAS TL-2
- CNC Tool room long shaft Lathe



- Mitsubishi Excel 2000W
- CNC Production Laser with Double Sheet Pallet Changer

- Universal 50W
- CNC Production and Marking Laser

- Pinnacle
- 175 Ton CNC 6 Axis Press Brake

- Chicago
- 10ft-120 Ton Hydraulic Shear

- Lincoln Welder
- 275 Amp Mig/Tig Production Welders
- 4 on the shop floor

- Inducto Therm
- 75 KW Induction Furnace-Stainless Steel and Bronze Impeller Castings.
