May 2023 - SMW Shop Update! New Machines & Operation Improvments!
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
- Here's an update of new machines, processes, tools, and life at Saunders Machine Works! We have a new UMC-500SS with a 10 pallet pool APC, a new-to-us Willemin 408MT 5-axis mill/turn, a Bambu X1 3D printer, a hot-shot heat treat oven, improvements to our RO water system, improvements to Process Bins, gridfinity bins, and more!
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Links for this video
SMW ThomasNet Profile: www.thomasnet....
Iris Lunar Rover on NBC: bit.ly/42KMWCI
Gridfinity Bins: gridfinity.xyz/
Gridfinity Fusion Plugin: github.com/Le0...
RO Booster Pump: amzn.to/42KNRTL
SMW Zero Point beta list: bit.ly/3LxbbfX
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Reach us / CNC Info:
Fusion 360: dsi.fyi/3yu7Mt0
CNC & Fusion 360 Training: bit.ly/3TRHs4J
SMW Products: saundersmachin...
Speeds & Feeds: provencut.com
CNC Resources: www.nyccnc.com
When I did field service work, the worst places to try to fix a machine were the "lean" shops that didn't want any "clutter". I could never believe that these guys would have a 30,000 sq.ft shop full of millions of dollars of CNC machine tools and I would have to leave the building and drive to the local hardware store to buy a couple socket head cap screws or a few feet of wire. Grinding shops were the absolute worst. Many times you'd have a whole shop full of grinding machines and no other machine tools of any kind. Need to press a bearing? They might have a vise somewhere. Need a to drill a hole? They might have a corded hand drill somewhere. Need to machine a new keyway? They have to send it out to another machine shop. Blew my mind every time.
The best old style manual machinist ever knew I knew, an absolute perfectionist, had a shop in his garage and when I visited him I expected his shop to be pristine, I was somewhat shocked to find it full to overflowing with stuff and a narrow path between each machine for access, if it was good enough for him who am I to have a tidy shop😅
Fair point - that's not what we're going after.
I worked on a clapped out old horizontal mill at a hole in the wall little run down shop nearby ours. The place is old, dark, dirty, and could pass for an indoor scrap yard. The x axis nut stripped the threads out. I got the table off and then was about to remove some stuff and asked the guy if they had any brake cleaner or something i could clean some stuff with. He's like "uhh we might have some kerosene" nah im good I'll just wipe the worst of it off with a rag.
It is a good thing you were able to acquire the building next door. SMW just keeps expanding! Manufacturing your own product lets you really hone the process. Glad to see American manufacturing rolling right along!
Can't wait to see more of the Willemin in action! Does it use a special adapter on the spindle nose for turning (since HSK-40e doesn't have drive dogs)?
OMG, thank you for that gridfinity reference. i also used Schaller bins but have to print a lot of my own due to lack of variety. ive been using Fusion for this but gridfinity is going to save me so much time. i also own a Bambu Labs XC1 and a Hotshot oven. great tools and support from their respective companies. Love your channel. Cheers from Vancouver.
It's always a pleasure watching your videos. They give me more motivation in doing my best at work. Great job guys. Compliments for this channel.
thanks!
Looking forward a Willemin video. Such a neat machine that needs more spotlight. First learned about them from John Grimsmo and got to see some at IMTS.
Haven't caught up in a while. Man, if i think how your shop started out to that absolute productive behemoth it is now is truly mind boggling but first of all really inspiring!
well if you want to print out things like those gridfinity faster, how about getting some of your interested students to build out a vzbot? that would be a good high performance machine. they have started selling kits now for it so does not have to be such a time sink to get one put together / up and running
Would be interesting to tour the shop. What is going on with the Johnny 5 robot?
Do giveaways for struggling shop owners to get rid of some of that "junk"
Love the updates man! Thanks for sharing. Love seeing the Willie running!
I hate when I have Fools of Spillament 😂
You fools!!!
I've also seen some places using a QR scan with your phone that opens a video of the setup or operation of the machine.
All the cool kids use gridfinity.
I'd love to see a dedicated video on that UMC500 in the near future. Super interested in that pallet pool and how you find it
Excited to learn more about your zero point system! Will Syndrome feature in your marketing? j/k.
My experience with Thomasnet sucked.
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All those years ago, when you got your first yellow crane (the one on the cart), there was an argument in the comments over the exorbitant price of buying vs making. Now that you've spent more than the price of a nice car on them, do the numbers still favour buying?
Yes, buy.
Congrats! You have a wonderful shop. Do you guys have a Diburring area? Or you send them outside?
On your hotshot oven. Have you had any trouble with the filament staples coming loose?
I love my bambu printer too! it has reinvented my love for 3d printing
The children really are our future..... *tears up*
I’m looking for job milling machinist
One of my main customers wanted me to go in and service a motor gear box ( its not what we do but ) and when I got their they had gone so down the "LEAN" rabbit hole it was like a hospital, when I asked where was a bench and vice they said it got thrown out as the machines had a vice, so I worked on the floor only for the Foreman to say your making the floor dirty and your tools arnt put away, I smiled and carried on, found it was just a bearing misaligned so pulled it out and re fitted it which was a pain with not even having a mobile table, got the machine working and the foreman said he wouldnt have me back as it made the shop look untidy, the guy on the machine said this place is a nightmare to work now they have gone down the ultra lean road, we have absolutely nothing to repair anything with, everything has to come new and they only order nuts bolts in the amount they need. My shop would have given them a hart attack.
This has been my worst year since 1984 to try to stay in business, the start of the year we brought our first mini mill because its small and has a tool changer, it ran flat out for 2 months and now just carnt get any work what so ever and many of my people in the same field of work say the same its a race to who can do it the cheapest. From what I see lean works if you make a product, if you have a contract shop that covers oil and gas and all the way down to fixing broken studs on tractors then you need clutter and all the odd bits, we do manual turning grinding milling then we have semi cnc turning milling, then we have cnc mill edm wire and welding and press work all in 2500 sqft, yes its compact but safe, this is the first year ever Im thinking of just getting out of engineering with each year getting harder due to foreign crap tooling coming in and only getting the repair work and even explaining to the customer its a false economy buying cheap and they say over time they will get better and I replied yes all good and well but who's going to fix it when the small shops are gone. I do like how you have grown your company over the years 👏👏👍
how do you keep the fungus/slime out of your RO water storage tank? We have had a terrible time with it, plugs filters non stop. We added a ozone generator but not sure that is helping much.
A very pleasant place of work, excellent machines! I express my delight!
John it is awesome to see how well you are going I purchased a SMW kant twist clamp way back when you were in the shed on the farm so much change.
Amazing how far you have come since making Picatinny rail accessories in a Manhattan apartment!
UMC were you listening to this, go marketing promotion if you got him another 500SS! Look at all the students that would be in there training and the going back to their companies, telling them they should buy one of your machines! Hint Hint!
It's a Hass, UMC is the model. Hass is in a lot of schools already for this exact reason
MADE IN THE USA!!! I LOVE IT!!!!
I am so envious and inspired by your organization! You have given me so many great ideas to streamline our shop.
What I’m not happy about Hass these days if true, is that they refuse to stop doing business with Russia during the war. If anyone can show, for certain, that it isn’t true, I’d like to know.
quick google search found an AP news statement from Haas.
Hard to know if its true or a rumor
"On March 3, 2022, shortly after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Haas Automation terminated, in its entirety, its relationship with its sole existing independent distributor for Russia and Belarus, Abamet Management. Since that date, Haas has not sold or shipped any machines, parts, or software to Abamet or anyone else in Russia."
@@DLS_MFG I hope that’s true.
@@melgross It is true. These machines were already shipped when total conflict sparked. Haas can't turn a ship around and the machines were not Haas' property the moment they were shipped.
The shop is looking good dude.
Love your videos! Keep up the amazing work!
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How do you see the future of the field for the machinists?
No J5 update?
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Hi,for documenting your processes, try GembaDocs, that's an easy way to make Standard Operational Procedures straight away from your phone, without having to take pictures, taking notes, bring it all to the computer, typing and formatting everything, we use it in our company and it's amazing!
Interested to see what your experience is one the UMC500. It has been our worst purchase machine wise we ever had!
Long time viewer and generally enjoy the content but there is some weird sharpening/smoothing going on in this video, makes it look like CGI, really uncomfortable. Hope this won't be a regular addition.
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..I watch your Chanel since you started...I must say your levels of 5S have dropped a bit.
Let's get the LEAN SPIRIT up a bit😊.
But thanks for all the awesome videos you post...keep up with doing such a great job
We just got that same 3d printer at work for the product development guys. I work right beside their area so I go over there while on night shift to see what they're cooking up. I saw a few of the prints that came off of it and I was impressed. They basically took it out of the box and hit go and it spits out near perfect parts.
I'd like to buy one but its quite pricey for my needs. I have a Ender 3 V2.