We bought a new CNC Lathe - Nakamura AS200LMYS
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- We finally jumped in and decided it was time to upgrade our lathe to something that would compliment the Mori Seiki CNC milling machine. I've been lusting after these sorts of lathes for years! I'm beyond thrilled to finally be able to purchase one!
This video shows the first week of training that I got on the lathe while it was still powered up at the showroom at Elliott Matsuura. It's a 6 axis Nakamura AS200LMYS CNC lathe with live tools, a 24 station turret, Y axis, sub spindle, parts catcher, chip conveyor, 300psi high pressure coolant, and tons of other goodies! It's a dream machine. This will allow us to perfectly make all of the round components to our knives and also open up several other product lines that we've been wanting to do for years.
Great video on the Nakamura AS200. I am looking at a quote for the same machine and it was good to watch you go over some of the setups thanks for sharing. I know it's an old video now but I will search your videos for more on this machine and binge watch them all 👍👍
Did you end up getting one?
@@codygibson2809 not yet
HOLY SHIT!!!!!!!!!
Congrats on the new purchase John, that's absolutely incredible!!!!! Can't wait to see it spinning parts!!!
+Brent Thanks Brent!
JohnGrimsmo
You're very welcome. Thanks for sharing the experience with us! Good luck with that beast.
Awesome! Can't wait to see what you do with it!
That is a beautiful machine! Congrats!
Thanks Jim!
Congrats John...I run two nakamuras at work...they are just awesome...itz been in my workplace for 25years i think...still holds the best tolerance.
its nice to see you graduate and not stay stuck in tormach fantasy land. its also great to see guys self teach. I've found the industry to not be very good at sharing and teaching. I mean the machine dealers are great but that only helps owners and lead guys. getting that passed down the ranks in a factory happens at a snails pace. sometimes its job security for a lead guy. sometimes its because its more important to the owners to keep the spindles turning than actually explain what's going on and have the low level guys help themselves. self teaching has the advantage of not being held down but the disadvantages of limited exposure to formal learning and solutions of others.
We bought our first Nakamura 19 years ago and it's still going strong
Great news ! can't wait to see what you come up with using this baby ! congrats !
Congrats!
I look forward to seeing where this goes!
Wow! that was amazing! Can't wait for more action of the new lathe!
Nakamura have good machines
I've had it for over a year and love it
I'm so happy for you John. Congratulations on your new lathe. I can't wait to see you make parts with it. Ciao, Marco.
Congrats on the new machine! It's always fun to have a new toy.
Congratulations. With health to use it and be the beginning of the expansion of the business.
Gratz on the new machine. I ran a WT-100 at my last job. Was holding +0.0/-0.005 microns on a milled pin on the side of a shaft. They are awesome machines!
Nakamura are excellent. Great choice, many congratulations!
You are smiling like a maniac. I like it. Can't wait to see some knives.
OMG quite the upgrade! I wouldnt be able to handle the stress of spending that much money, but I do enjoy seeing where you are headed. :D For me being self employed is to lower stress and work at my own pace, so I dont spend money on anything until Ive earned it... granted I am growing at a much slower pace equipment wise, but I dont like money stress so that is an ok trade off for me. :D
WOW I have a hard time sleeping when I purchase a $3500 equipment. I would have a stroke buying something like that. Thats Great congratulations
WOW John! I was just wondering where did you go, haven't been updating your channel for couple of weeks. And then I thought- there must be a damn good reason and BOOOOM !!! A FREAKING AWESOME REASON! :-) CONGRATS !!!
Awesome John! You wont regret buying a good cnc lathe. Even if its a little over kill for what your doing right now. Im sure you will have other parts and ideas to machine in it for the near future. Thanks for sharing.
I thought when the time came you would have bought a Mori Seiki Lathe. Then you would have a complete family(brother and sister machines). That Nakamura will be awesome! Congratulations
Congratulations, John! Happy to see you guys consistently growing the business!
With these industry standared machines you have a massive scope for production in so many areas. Well done! These are great machines, top shelf stuff. Our campany switched to Korean made cnc machines a while back and equally a high standared. There's an amazing high quality cnc machines coming from the Asian region. Cheers
Great video! I get this exact machine in 2 days super pumped!
Im so happy for you guys!!! Amazing watching your transformation from the g0702 to what you have today :) cheers.
Congrats man, good to see you guys are always taking things to the next level!!!
I'm happy for you John, love that wonderful machine. Wish I could get one for myself.
dude, that is so cool ! you are a lucky man doing what you love to do
congrats brother
Congrats John and Eric,awesome machine!!
"It's not a huge machine, really" Dude, you are being too modest again. What a crazy piece of tech. Can't wait for you to fully utilise all those axii, and make some amazing stuff with it!
I had an ear to ear smile (like a NYCCNC-smile) the whole way through the video. Checking out your partner in crime's imts 2016 overview video too as I type this. I just love you two geeking out like that. It brings so much stoke and determination, just seeing the possibilities.
Oh and congratulations on 33!
Thanks for sharing dude!
(spoiler: that's not how you remove the chuck, the draw tube should be in the inward position so you have more room to unthread the coupling within the travel of the jaws, once the coupling is completely disengaged you can finish removing the bolts holding it to the spindle nose, you should never let the weight of the chuck hang on the threads of the draw tube, I know this because I have made two brand new draw tubes for two of our lathes from scratch, those threads on the draw tube will rip right off of there with the pressure that the draw tube cylinder can exert, just be careful with the draw tube.)
Excellent advice. I didn't even notice
Grimsmo never becomes complacent. Seems he's only happy if he's always evolving his knife game. If you get a Grimsmo knife, you're always getting the best knife being made at the time and for very reasonable pricing considering the labor and art.
Congrats! That's a kick ass machine!
Congrats John and Eric! I said it on Instagram, but didn't see this video until today.
WOW dude, that's an impressive machine.
A-MAZING. Man that spindle sound! Like music! There's so much cool stuff in this video I can't even think to list it. Happy late 33rd, John!
How can you possibly justify this kind of purchase? That's a $200,000 lathe. We can all do the math on your gross sales and the numbers don't even begin to add up. Must be spending Daddy's money.
Wes Johnson I agree there is no possible way he is making enough money off of his knives to fund this. Unless he took a ridiculous amount of pre orders and is just hoping everyone stays on board while he makes them wait 2 years for knives. He has always seemed a little pretentious and arrogant to me and for no real reason i can see.
thats a $ 300 k lathe, is a beast
doing small screws?? jesus, this guy is nuts
cause the guy is a hobbyist going into machining world
....
this purchase, $600 dollars knives, people who buy the knives.... everything around this guy is pure ignorance
This is not a $200,000 lathe. I have quotes on this model for $75k.
Harrelson Trumpets $75 k?? .. poor idiot
Rock on John, really cool to see your business grow!
Happy birthday John and congrats on amazing machine!
Congratulations! She's a beaut!
Wow! Just wow! Your 8 years in front of me in age, but light years in front of machinery. Everyone has his own route right? Good luck with the new machine!
"All in." Happy for you, man.
This is what I run production on. 🙌
This is indeed a very, very beatiful machine you have there!!
I was very impressed on how quite it works, considering how much rpm you possibly need if you are machining such a small diameter in brass. I know a shop which owns the twin-turrent Nakamura, I' always impressed how freaking fast this machine works.
So congrats on your bying and greetings from Germany!
Btw, I can totally understand this "kid in a candy-shop" feeling you got.
One year ago we bought a CTX Beta 800 from DMG and visited DMG in Bielefeld- got the same feeling there :D
Congrats John! I am doing a small production run on a manual lathe, and really has me thinking i need to go CNC !
Collets, parting tools, collet holder, omg , I am about to come lol
fun toys, i've had a mori nl sy, currently running an okuma lb3000 ymw and a couple of swiss lathes and i have a dura also. i will honestly say the fanuc controls are the simplest controls to run out of the bunch. good choice on the royal collet noses, no indicating saves so much time on those. if you have the choice, go to y axis stacked holders as soon as you can. you can get so many more tools on that turret and it will make your setups so much quicker leaving all your common tools in place. i am curious to see how well you get fusion working with it, i just started playing with it and like it so far, and i want to adopt it in my shop.
Best comment on this thread. The Y axis on this machine is crazy strong...
Exciting times but scary times. It's a big commitment. Best of luck with it and I'm looking forward to seeing chips flying in your shop.
Hello John,
Firstly a super great big happy Birthday to you, I honestly thought you were about 27!
I am seriously jealous and the one below your model would just about go through my window to my tiny flat, but I would have to find something to mask the odour of the cutting oil< I am mental and dreaming of course. If only I was younger and very importantly, healthier I would actually buy the ‘Manual! As it is about all I can deal with and afford!’ The machine will have to be a dream unfortunately. I was surprised to find at least one agent for these machines in England UK.
Hope you go from strength to strength so you and (perhaps) Erik can be just doing the packing and post your knives out letting your machines do all the graft!
Congrats on the awesome acquisition John!
How come I only now discovered this amazing channel,but I've been following you on Instagram for a year!Great content!
Many congratulations. Here's to hoping you keep it busy.
Usted y sus unicas, unicas, y solo sus Unicas ideas 💡
Love your channel, I'm super jealous beautiful machine bud. I program and setup puma2000sy and Citizen Swiss machines all day love to have my very own machine like this.
You should go with Blaser Swisslube for coolant, simple for long tool life, low maintenance and great part finishes
massive congratulations John and Grimsmo team👍👍 it's so awesome what you have done and how far you've come... mindblowing!! the amount of people you have inspired (this guy right here😆) Happy Birthday mate
+SharpStuffau dwayne thank you Dwayne!!!
@@JohnGrimsmo do you remember how much you paid for it? how much are they going for now
This is a very nice Machine but for the Parts you are running it is waaay too big! A smaller Machine(Size not Quality) runs faster, accelerates faster and will spend less energy moving Turrets and Chucks around.
A better Size would be waht Brad uses at Tactical Keychains.
2384SKIPPER Brad has offered advice and has told me personally that John refuses any help he has also said that Johns systems are shit and needs some major help. Brad designs a product, prototypes, finalizes, makes product, and ships product out in the time it takes John to make one fucking knife lol.
Who is Brad ?
@@bretteur2legende brad is the guy who offered john advice and was turned down. After that brad dropped his last name from sheer disappointment.
@@Z-add Thank you
I can see why you have purchased this machine. Only problem I see is the business decision for this purchase. You make relatively small low cost parts on this machine its going to take longer than the useful life of the machine to justify its cost and pay for it self making those parts.
That's correct and it's not even the right machine for those parts
He makes pocket knives that sell for an average of 900 dollars a piece and he shipping about 20 knives per week. So he is making 18,000 a week. Sounds justifiable to me.
Lovely! So happy for you dude!
+Greg Koenig Thanks Greg! Not a Citizen agree all 😉.
Super pumped for you guys keep on keepin' on !
That's a lot of lathe! Congrats!
That's one heck of a machine, well done! Really excited to see what you make with it. Oh, and I'm green with envy over your Metal Supermarket ;-)
Amazing machine, John! congrats!
Watching him take that 3 jaw off reminded my of doing spindle tear down on those things! Good times lol
Brilliant machine , I programmed and set one for a couple of years , very small footprint
This is so awesome! I hope to see more :)
This is the best news.
Awesome vid, and congrats!
very good machine but there is some extra move which is no need while cutting i think using cam not manuel program thats why
Well you did it... You have your mill and lathe. That its. You're done.
+Max Maruszewski LAZERS! ROBOTS! BIG TUMBLERS! ahhhhhhh it never ends hahaha. Thanks bro.
I was giggling and laughing the entire time and it is not even mine
Yep me too!
me to lol
Super jealous of the Mori and nakamura!
Wow John! Big time!
Congrats GrimsBro's !
Nice lathe!! Congrats!
Congratulations, Mr. OBSESSION! (In a good way!)
congrats on the new toy.
Woooo boi. That's so way mucho mucho awesome.
Super awesome!
What a great way to spend a birthday!!! Congrats on the buy, and a way late "Happy Birthday! (ya old fart! :)"
I'm happy for you happy 33th birthday
Happy Birthday, and congratulations!
This gonna help the company production and finish of the parts, i like the you make a long video of the entire process, i want to see that machine in the shop, but were gonna to put? the place its make small for you guys.
And happy birthday!
Happy birthday, man!
I hope it pans out. :) Other than that, it's a great tool. I'm not sure, but if, this is the same as the owned by a factory near me, (which does high precision suspension parts for scientific applications) if so then this is a beast in terms of churning out parts. But, i seem to recall being a bit of a chore "programming" the work in.
Congrats on the purchase but why such a large machine for the work your planning on doing?
Could have been better off with a Swiss machine like a star or citizen or even a miyano.
Just curious why you went with the lathe you bought. Thanks for the reply
My guess would be scalability
Why 5C and not something else the clamps more surface area - like ER40?
John, not being a CNC guy this may be a stupid question, but! You calibrated it at their shop/factory and ran some test pieces, now machine gets delivered to you. Do you have to re-calibrate machine after delivery? Happy birthday, nice birthday present!
good question.
Congrats. I bet signing on the line had sone thoughts going through your head :D Its the kind of machine i would only dream of having. Its the only way to make top quality parts with little fuss. At the end of the day small CNC's just dont cut it when you are in business and need parts made.
I thought you were getting a Kern and a Tornos. What happened?
Interesting video. Looking at one of these at the moment. 5C does go bigger. We have a 28mm collet about
Very nice machine! I have ran a few WT-300's and though with chucks, they have a tendency to want to commit suicide, they are super tight work horses! You are going to love making parts with that machine you bought!
DANG JOHN!!!!!!! I'm soooo excited for you great job. bad as s machine bad as s knives tighter faster stronger I can't wait for my knife! so glad I'm gonna get parts from that machine and your designs!!!!! amazing oh and this VID WAS FREAKING AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+dom007bond nm great to hear it Dom! I can't wait to finally finish your knife. Send me a picture of the grin on your face when you get it.
Very impressive. I know you are going to spend a lot of time with R&D, but I am excited to see the results, or more Norseman's, whatever comes first.
A 6 axis lathe is one hell of a birthday present! I feel like I just watched a tool porno. lol This has obviously been coming for awhile.
Congrats
Daaaaaaaaang, NICE!
Where is this factory located ? I want to work in it .if it need a operating in cnc lathe machine thank you