Seven Powerful Tools of the T.REX Engineering Team
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- Опубликовано: 12 окт 2024
- Constant improvement is a T.Rex Arms goal. It looks different in different departments, but some the most obvious improvements have been engineering tools for making holsters. Check out the latest project the engineers have been working on to improve the quality and efficiency of the products we craft.
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Keep going Trex Engineering. American manufacturing is the future
In-house development of custom tools like this goes a long way toward helping to build even greater vertical integration for the business. Equally crucial is management support and corporate culture that encourages the iterative development behind this development process. Great work, T-Rex!
As an electrical engineer who works with PLC and complex processes it was awesome to see how excited you guys are to learn new things and innovate as you go. Great job guys!
This is great. I work in manufacturing and just the thought processes you guys seem to have when tackling problems put you well above your peers.
maybe not pioneering the technologies, but sharing the process of actually building a functioning company from a little shop doing handmade individual products to mass production is something I don't think has been done before. I'd love to see more stuff like this, showing how y'all learned to grow as a company. I think its useful information for everyone looking to expand their own horizons
My Dad used to make everything he wanted, when I was young, because we didn't have a lot of money. From foot scrapers, to pickup beds, to car trailers. This is taking that mentality to the furthest degree, and I love it! This gives so much power to the individual, or business, and takes it away from those who don't deserve it. Keep moving forward T-Rex!
Great to see each man with his machine
I’ve worked in automation for about 6 years now and I am so impressed that you guys started from 0 and got to that. Those look like amazing pieces of equipment!
Great behind the scenes look. Lessons learned with pain are never forgotten. Well, as long as the team stays together. Good job.
Oh they can be forgotten with time & brainwashing, look at American today & then read what the Founding Fathers said & wanted.
As someone who works in QA for a living, it's refreshing to see an engineer who takes an FMEA seriously.
I love all of your technical videos! I really appreciate your pace of explanation and the density of knowledge in each video.
Love that you guys are manufacturing in the USA.
Great show. Many thanx from a german engineer in South Africa! Much appreciated! 👍🇿🇦🇩🇪🇺🇲
I too want to learn EVERYTHING about EVERYTHING.... My goodness this channel scratches an itch I didn't know I had!
Ikr? Like if I wasn't states away I'd try to shadow and gopher for these guys just to see what it's like inside
Looks like a fun place to work. Growth is a blast to be part of.
Isaac taught me four or five new things in this video, chief among them is that the word “tools” Is actually two syllables.
This is awesome how you Show behind the scenes Development of your own custom tools and machinery, not many people would do that
These videos are always awesome. Thanks Trex.
Today I learned Tennessee accents kinda sound Australian
Both ultimately deriving from West Country and Scottish accents.
@@zoch9797 turns out it was just an Aussie accent 😅
Lol. And for my next invention, the Barbie Grill 2.0
Crikey!
I'm from Tennessee, this is the funniest comment ever...lol I'm proud mate.
Thanks Isaac!
One of my fav youtube channels. Keep up the good work! :)
I love this content, Isaac! Keep at it!
This channel is just the coolest ever.
Going to watch this with my son. Love the innovation
Always a good vid from this channel 👌
Love your channel man
Nothing wrong with simple stuff :) I just love it.
Love your work.
Love this episode.
So the real treasure is the lessons we learned along the way?
Always.
Great video! So happy to be a partner of yours and see proud and innovative American manufacturing. At some point, we would love to have you come see our facility.
Really really interesting.
Getting a Kiwi to do your engineering for the WIN!
The automation shop I work for would have charged a fortune for that little heat press machine. That's an awsome capability to be able to do in house.
Loved it. Ty
I think y'alls next step is simulating your value chain(s) and tinkering with them in digital. That'll make adding product lines more efficient in the future
Wow, who knows, maybe in a few weeks you will be running CANBUS or something...
One of the reasons I like to design with STMicro. STM32 on the 144 x144 pin die can do amazing things for a few dollars. It is full of COMM protocols. I had my design for redundant STM driven controllers for a submersible handling underwater comms, undersea audio with sea to air correction, underwater lighting, comms with the tow vessel 450' above, and emergency control over the life support and surfacing control.
ABS approved at first glimpse. 4 pages hand drawn, and it sashay's through. I was given 4 days notice to prep the docs for presentation to the American Bureau of Shipping. Sketched it and faxed it to the MIT Grad presenting the sub to ABS. His part failed. They had just doubled the Life support cap. two weeks earlier. Yet it is positively buoyant and tethered to the tow vessel. Project fail.
Interesting to see some vertical integration at TREX
I'm a CNC machinist/tool maker for a large corporation's engineering firm. Our shop focuses on production intent prototype tooling(that's a mouthful).
I have some notes:
- Don't neglect your work holding in CNC. Clamps and such can take you a long way and sometimes may be your only option. But having a repeatable setup can be invaluable. Minimizing setup time while simultaneously improving precision is possible with various "off the shelf" solutions such as FCS workholding. Is FCS right for you? I don't know, that's something for you to research. It isn't cheap though. There are other similar solutions available that may suit your needs better.
Are you using Solidworks or some other CAD software? What are you using for CAM?
Looks like Fusion 360
@armorers_wrench How would you rate using Solidworks for cad and Alphacam for cam?
I love this video, that CAD program my brain works like that with firearms haha I love taking things apart and I buy a lot of old WW1 and WW2 rifles and take everything apart inspection it and repair anything not 100% good then put it all back together. It is my purpose to maintain history and always working on weapons
Careful according to the ATF that’s a readily convertible weapon
Supreme court knocked that bs out
More engineering videos!!!
They used to use layers of translucent onion paper to mimic transparency
Yeah! Fantastic stuff.
American innovation
Can your fancy new machine make a holster for p320 with TLR2???
Never forget safety considerations when engineering your own manufacturing equipment. Consider an external vendor to perform a machine guarding assessment to keep your employees safe.
Orrrrrrr have competent employees...
@@pa_trickbrandt telling the court "but I thought they were all competent and completely accident-free" doesn't usually help much during the lawsuit. It's almost always cheaper to prevent bad things from happening by accident.
@@theKashConnoisseur Fair enough. I suppose I'm very lucky (even naive) where I work that court-involvement didn't cross my mind
I would 100% buy one of those heat presses. I thought of something like that in my head. I make knife sheaths
So when are you going public? 😎
Part of reason we can do this stuff is being a privately-owned company, though.
Don't go public. The minute you do the mission statement goes from "equipping serious citizens" to "make the shareholders more money at any cost "
Good on ya
2:58 does the man from the engineering department come from the land of Dimmies?
I saw no PPE for the people working there, as they are exposed to the off-gassing of the plastics when it is heating up.
Not getting cancer is woke. Everybody knows only giga-chad conservatives get cancer.
We are under the threshold for Kydex.
Things have gotten so smart that smart things seem simple. There’s nothing simple about it, sure after you learn and do something and progress in that area then parts of it are simple. And while some people might catch on or understand things easier then other people ( the brain of an engineer for example ) it’s still very much impressive. I always think when looking at , using or building stuff how in the world did someone think of this in their brain, it’s wild. We have a plc guy (Pedro) for some of our machines that require one and it’s crazy once that thing is all wired up and programmed….imho, I’m just a dumb welder😂😂
Didn't know you have a shop in Dublin!!! 🤣🤣🤣
Makes me wonder if the next step is injection molded Kydex.
Ah yes, I also use CAD. Cardboard-aided Design.
Who left their beverage on the BRAND NEW ELECTRONIC KYDEX PRESS?
This video taught me why your holsters cost what they do. Tacticon Armament wont learn anything. Keep doing what you're doing.
I stopped taking Tacticon seriously when they made a response video insisting that cheap "offshore" tourniquets were "just as good" as NAR CATs. It's ok to cheap out on a lot of things but life saving equipment isn't one of 'em. Especially not a piece of kit that needs to be high quality in materials and manufacturing to do the job asked of it.
I'm not sure what the clamping peasure is, but you could consider a second button for the other hand before the press cycle can activate. That way you dont have operators putting their fingies in the path and losing them.
PLCs are awesome, but they reflect a level of investment that you need to reach before they are worth persuing.
But never, ever use an RPI. Automation direct is much to cheap and significantly more robust.
Part of the reason those hand presses require both hands is for safety, you're much less likely to have your hand in the press when it comes down if it requires both of them to use it. It might seem like an unlikely scenario, but hopefully you've considered all the possible ways your new machine could hurt someone, even and especially if that someone was doing something... not smart.
Everyone is distract-able and Murphy has a way of rearing his ugly head when he can.
Also cost and less waste as well. Even a drill press removes the error 😅
Take my Money
I only buy the best Organic Free Range holsters
Im glad the answer isnt something abstract like “community”
I had fun Lol 😂🤷♂️👍
Next level of patriotism is USA made by Americans! The patriot front definition lol
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That's not a southern accent!
It's almost the most southern accent.
Bump
Over complicated vacuum forming machine.
Is your stuff gonna cost $2M now instead of $1M?
Lucas is just in back playing xbox and annoying people, isn't he...
Another squeaky voice.
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I love you guys, but it's really not that hard to make a holster.
Exactly! It's only hard to make thousands of holsters. Every problem is usually a problem of scale.
To make a burger is easy. To make a million burgers is hard. - Ronald McDonald, probably
@@theKashConnoisseur Even clowns are right twice a day.
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