Extra Content: The Mind-Blowing Machines that Stamp Metal Parts - Smarter Every Day 2nd Channel

foreign welcome to the second Channel this is the Extended Cut of the TNC stamping metal stamping video as a part of the smarter everyday manufacturing series here so on this video you'll see more footage than you did on the main Channel video and it's really cool I hope you enjoy it okay so this is Weston and I'm Destin and we're Ken somehow do you know how we're Ken uh I don't I just I don't either our answer moms tell us we're kidding all the time and we have no idea but you have a really cool Sheet Metal Manufacturing facility and I wanted to make a video about it because I love it so my buddy John's with us today uh John and I are going to work with TNC stamping to do a thing we'll talk about that in the future but uh yeah so let's go check out your plant okay is it called a plant we call it a plant we've got uh a hundred thousand square feet here in Athens you actually manufacture things here we actually manufacture metal stamping so we do some put what we call sub-assemblies as well but um yeah we do all that right here as well as build the tooling that's kind of what sets us apart is a lot of metal stamping plants don't build their own tooling so that's we do all of that here so we'll start in the tool shop we'll get to look at some dies up close and you kind of get an idea of what a stamping die actually is and then we'll go out into the factory and you can see see them in actions this is the tool shop we have about 15 full-time tool and die machinists and operators here so surface grinder yep so you'll see all of the standard Machine Tool kind of stuff in here Grinders lathes wire EDM we have one CNC machine here but you have an example of what you make yeah people can kind of because so people maybe don't know what's going on here okay that's awesome so this is a metal stamping metal stamping is the short it's called a stamping metal stamping so it's anything that can be Stamped Out of a coil of sheet metal so okay this particular part is a heat shield for a V-Twin motor so a Briggs and Stratton V-Twin lawn mower engine snow blower engine generator engine this is a heat shield that goes on that this goes to their assembly plant down in Auburn Alabama you see that yeah and so you will make a machine that makes this correct yeah so we so what you're looking at here is actually called a stamping die so this is the bottom half of the stamping die and this is the top half of the stamping die that's crazy and we receive raw material in in coil form and it's our job to take raw material and coiled steel form run it through a stamping die to where we have a finished product that comes off the end of the die so this so if I understand correctly just flat metal will come in one side correct and that will come out the other correct really yep and you you make this here we we make everything you see here with the exception of something like pins and bushings we we there are some purchase components but all of the dye Steels everything you see here started as raw steel we machine it um into what you see here so is it okay if I touch it you touch anything you want to yeah all right so so this is one tool correct and so okay can you show me how it works so this is the this is the top half of the die here so what you're looking at is the top half of of of the die this is the bottom half okay um so in operation you have the top half that mates with the bottom half this goes into a press and the Press moves up and down and the doctor yeah whatever sound effect you want to use [Music] [Music] thank you and as the material moves through the die it's attached to the strip the entire time and all of these features are being put in the part during the process and you have a finished part that falls off the end there's an undercut there correct like so what this is is a spark the application of this there's a spark plug wire that goes into this slot oh so it can't cut the wire you have to have a feature there that guards against any kind of wire that would cut the insulation or anything like that so okay so so I can see I'm seeing something here so I see a guide here and here yes so that that feels like the the metal will come straight in here correct and then this yes the material comes from this sand and moves and and the material is one piece as it moves through the die until it's cut off at the end that's what's called a progressive stamping die because it progressively forms and punches the part until you have a finished part that falls off the end if the part were to ever be detached from the strip and then continually formed it would be called a transfer die a transfer transfer dot because you're transferring a loose part from one session to another but this is Progressive keeps it attached keeps it removes a correct piece yeah and we don't do any transfer work here we just strictly do Progressive dies so okay um maybe better to look at the top half of the oh wow this is this is the top half of the die so imagine this is serious yeah so imagine this is upside down right now but this would be the last station of the die it's formed and then it's actually cut off from the strip Falls in a basket and you have a finished part okay just to give you an idea of so that right there so this is the top half of the die correct which means there's a mate over here is that it right there that's correct yep so everything can you grab that part yep and it goes like that so everything has to line up perfectly um and so you have to design this whole thing in stages uh so it's like a story like like you start with flat and correct yeah so so Joey Russell who you met he's he does the design work so yeah it's um you basically start with a flat blank and you have to figure out how to get these features into the park and basically have a finished part fall off the end okay so this is Wizardry I got it this is why I wanted to come here I saw a tool like this and it blew my mind and I wanted to see did I do that right yep okay um so it would start in the in the flat State as it moves through the die so this is actually the punch you can look down in there and see the punch okay it's hard to see but it's in there so that's the punch that actually punches this hole uh-huh and then you have a form that coins so you have the corn in there yeah I mean those are just two examples of one feature on this part but imagine every feature on this part I'm gonna get my phone out okay so that's the punch okay got it so uh and then this is the coining operation so you can imagine every feature on this part has to be completed in this tool here and then when it comes to the last station okay it's formed and then cut off they're grinding over here right now right yep yep so they're just doing some uh what's up man they're just grinding on some die steel so this is uh Brandon how's it going man oh hey I'm destined what's up man you're doing all right how are you you're running a surface grinder yeah Brandon was a press operator for a couple of years and now he's uh an apprentice here in the tool shop doing the apprenticeship program so you're learning how to do all this or you learning how to make the machines and stuff is it awesome so you're Brandon right yes sir is this a surface grinder yes sir all right so how does this uh what are you doing I am getting the sides parallel already ground the thickness I'm getting the parallel now to be ready to go to the meal to be able to put our whole uh tap towels counter bore holes whatever needs to be put in it and it'll be ready for heat treat then it'll be ready for either the wire machine or the sand seat machine how did you learn how to do this [Music] yeah so this is uh is it actually taking Material off right now but I can make it are you about to anyway yeah go for it [Music] so how do you take into account the wear of the Stone a lot of times you can tell you can actually see it you can tell by the coloration of the Stone from because all your work's been doing on the edges that you can see the discoloration sometimes of the stone you can tell how much you're actually grinding at a time and now are you going down in this Dimension and left and right at the same time I have fed down now I'm just setting that feet across that's awesome how much do you have to take off of this right now it was pretty it was pretty it was only about a thousandths out of Squires so I fed down two thousand so I should clean up everything that's awesome and then how do you check that like once it once it cleans up there it's no real set dimension on this one because it's going to be a wire block got it you just want it to be cleaned up so you got clean edges to pick up your start point of when you go to put your holes in it that's awesome it's complicated stuff and it is Brandon right yes sir yeah nice to meet you dude like yeah and you're The Apprentice right yes cool how long do you is it good Apprentice journeyman and then skill trade I have uh right at three more years and then you'll be a journeyman that's awesome congratulations thank you that's a huge deal man I think that's worth more than uh a lot a lot of times that's worth more than the college education yeah he is that's awesome glad to meet you Brandon so just to kind of go back to the dye really quick um everything you see in the die started as a as a piece of raw steel and has to be machined into what you see here um so the tooling engineer will generate drawings and then it's up to the tool makers to figure out how to machine this stuff out of just raw steel this is raw Brute Force brain power and that's right yep so this is a little better example this is this is the exact same manufacturing process this is a stamping die this is the bottom half of the die this is the top half of the die but right here we actually have a strip oh wow this is the actual finish finish part that's the finished part yeah this is a an automotive bracket okay all right so this is Mark Mark is going to explain this die to us right right a progressive die yes okay cool how's it work yeah we feed the raw material in from this end and like you see it be solid without any interruptions and we'll Pierce two holes these two holes are pierced here for the the pilots to engage okay now once the Pilot's Engage The Pilot is a way to index the parts correct is that right and that maintains our progression our feed for each part in each position you can see we've got the die loaded pretty well with with Pilots so that's the first step yes punch the holes and then you cut this tab right here all right it'd be cut right there so then we cut the tab okay and then after you cut the tab then what progresses one more uh distance from the pilots it appears here then it as it carries it through uh we bring it down to the forms kicks these two forms up that way uh-huh bring it on down a little further and then it forms them down again so you've got in some places you have radiuses in some places you have sharps are these is this hardened steel right here I know this is an insert yes that's where it forms and that's that's all hardened and the uh the opposing side would be hardened also so if you're cutting you have hardened okay forgive me Mark I don't know where the cuts are taking place here This is complicated are these side actions yes those these are actuated with Drive blocks here that they come in and they trim the bottom side of the the so that's a Shear underneath there yes all right so this this looks sharp and that's the final cut off where the final part would would fall off okay so this goes like that yeah yeah it feeds in this direction and so you actually put letters in it too yeah this the steps in the top side and it just you ground it off well it's just that's where it's worn I see from hitting it so this is the stamp over here correct and you can change that yeah for the day Automotive customers require date codes and really part numbers to be shown in the park wow okay so stamped letters comes along cuts the tabs here that's a cutter correct yeah that's a punch yes this is the pilot holes uh-huh then this is the opening for that blank and it just falls out of the park right so this is the bottom yes okay and then then as we get to this area that's where that kicks this down on a 45 okay and it progresses down two more stations and it kicks that leg up so that where this was 45 is now up at 90 degrees to the to the bend yep why do you why do you do a 45 instead of just doing the whole Bend at one time different situations by different Engineers they feel differently about having it but once you have this form right here you'll never have to touch it again you're just bringing this angle up to 90. yep so this is already at 90 to that when it leaves this area yep so we're just actually just kicking this one angle on up to 90. yep that makes sense you said these are side actions yes so if you push if you push right can I push sure but it's it's not going to move a little bit get a little motion so if you push how do you get is there a swing arm in there this is the pad that actually strikes the the back side of that block and does the pushing but how do you how do you take a vertical motion here and turn it into an a left and right motion there's a 45 degree angle on this slide right here 45 degree angle on this driver and once it meets it it just and it's a spring return Yes okay got it this is ridiculous Weston this is crazy it's pretty wild yeah okay and then how how many of these can you make in a day like thousands yeah this is it's got 54 000 Parts on it now it's gotten a little bit of a bell Edge on one area and so we're gonna sharpen the cut off that's amazing to bring that back up to a good surface so you're reworking this Progressive die right now that's amazing that's awesome I'll just remove you can see this is inserted so I'll take these three screws out pull that insert out put it on the grinder and resurface it and then that knocks all the dull edges all right so we talked a little bit about um you know if you were to buy this tool overseas we'll call it just bargain tooling um let's just say it if you were to buy this in China right yeah when people want things manufactured they go to China Let's uh you know a lot of this would be you know this this block of steel for example is likely to be one one piece of Steel we make it modular so Dodge deals can be taken at inserts die Steels can be taken out and sharpened as needed because if this were one If This Were one die steel this was one piece of Steel maintenance would be virtually impossible it would be a lot of work so basically some of the stuff you get like if you were to buy a sheet metal tool they would just make this in one monolithic block is that what you're saying uh for the most part say this area right here would be one block okay and you'd have so many grinds that you could make on that and then you'd have to throw it away and replace the whole area now this die here is probably it was built in the 70s that was built in the 70s yeah late 70s I'd say and all of the areas that are sharpened a lot are inserted just like this would be so that you can keep the tool running for years and years so this this die will get 600 500 600 000 hits a year six hundred thousand hits a year uh on a on a heavier usually closer to 500 000 hits a year so you do you know if you do the math this dye has been in operation since the 70s thank you very much sweet Okay so we've got three wire EDM machines and what what a wire EDM machine does is basically wire profiles and die Steels with an electrically charged wire that a lot of times can't be done manually or would take days to do manually so hopefully I got an example of one of those tough boys [Music] you hand me one of those blocks over there or there we go so this is this would just be a Dye insert here and you can imagine if you had to machine that um there's very few ways you can actually do that in a machine operator yeah that's a long tapered part yep so you're talking about a tapered grinding wheel or some kind of End Mill that has a that profile on and it has to be that specific profile so um what a what a wire EDM machine does is voice would actually um oh you got a whole jig in here yep he's just making them one little section here yeah you can actually see the brass wire being fed down through there yep but that brass wire is electrically charged and actually Burns through the steel so voice would program The Wire EDM machine to programming boys can I throw this mic on here just a second on you you okay with it it does you're good I'll just stick it right there what are you making uh in some inserts you're gonna run this profile inside that insert right there so that's a cutter that's the that's showing where it's cutting is this carbide or it's all still it's hard steel it's hard tools to got it how long will it take to run that on the EDM 45 minutes really yeah that ain't bad yeah so you guys mostly use SolidWorks it looks like yes what's your background boys I've been here 45 years yeah I've been in tool and die 45 years until and die yeah machine through and die you think they're going to teach you how to do something for it too late on that are you mostly an EDM guy now I am now yeah I took over a man that was in here for I started out in 1983 working in EDM and went to machinists and doing two through the dial work you know he retired a year or so ago and I volunteered to come back in here and before I retire so you do wire EDM do you also do solid Pro or electrodes no no it's this machine behind you is it wire as well yeah it's just an older EDM machine what's your favorite machine to use the new one that one right I usually that one most the time well I've got both of them running right now I'll use them both they're the same just a little different size you're running master can to run them yeah that's amazing [Music] thank you okay here now [Applause] so you can just see some of the other guys the guys are working on this is just general workspace all the tool makers have their own toolbox and they they work on dies as they come in and um dude this is the strength of American manufacturing right here this is like this is a big deal a lot of these guys that you've talked to already Roger started work for my granddad in his 20s Boyce has been here since uh the 90s Mark has been here for a while so a lot of these guys have been here for for a really long time and we're fortunate for that do a lot of people do this in America not anymore you know when these guys came up in the trade in the 60s and 70s it was a really popular career choice but not so much anymore it's you know you think of a factory dirty dingy and there's all these stereotypes but you know the reality is you can get you can be creative you know factories are a lot safer than they used to be they're a lot cleaner than they used to be so hopefully people are considering it as a you know viable career option but there's this gap between the 60s and 70s into now and so we have this Workforce tool and our Workforce that's getting close to retirement and we have some young apprentices that are coming through but we have this big gap that we're trying to fill so yeah so pretend I'm an idiot which isn't hard right tell me when I hear tool and die or tool engage can you point to something that shows me what that is what is a tool a tool yes all of this is all this is truly explain it to me every piece of that is tooling that's a that's a die steel okay so so this is this is tooling right this is tooling now what's gauge gauge or die what is dye the the dye is a complete assembly show me a die this is this is this is the same way this is a die this is a die so the tooling goes inside the die right okay and so when somebody says I'm I'm a skilled Tradesman or a skilled trades woman whatever they say these days so do you do you basically that that is the knowledge required to build the dial like this correct to make a product correct okay okay now then there's there's mole which is the entire different thing you know it's injection mold plastic uh plastic I've been I've been working on injection I'm trying to learn that oh you got the plastic you've got die casts which could be aluminum it could be magnesium that's a different genre too you know it's completely different skill sets for each one of them so so what's what's hard about this skill set and and understand my ignorance when I ask that question my dad was in tool engage right I know it's a lot of precision right is it patience what do you need to do it's it's about to fit you know drilling holes is drilling holes but when you put it together everything's got to go together the way it's supposed to go together a good example this to tool here oh two have been around for a long time for some reason it decided just didn't want to go in there anymore this this round at your Pierce Point you want to go inside here anymore okay it's it's out of place called being out of alignment okay what causes that who knows it could have been a die crash could have been a much thing at that point somebody's got to figure out how to get that back where it's supposed to be sometimes it's a matter of a light peck on that and sometimes it's a complete remount you know when you're talking of thousands so you're you're you're more like watchmakers wow so tool and gate I mean you ain't watch makers but you're more like a uh a Precision it's two different things you you can either be a sledgehammer or a surgeon okay you know it depends on what you're doing sometimes like I say you might you might hit it like a hammer a lot of times you might change the squareness a few tenths just the effect where that punch goes two tenths like meaning a tenth of a ten a tenth of a thousandth of an inch right okay matter of fact that was off I think that punches our Square about a thousands for some reason and who knows how it gets like that where fair whatever you know anything can get something off but sometimes if you talk about that being out of square at the back side a couple of tents in the amount of tilt you've been an engineer you know what kind of tilt that does to something the longer it gets the farther away it gets yes so it doesn't take a lot got it and so you've got to figure that out so the engineer draws it will a good engineer spend time in the shop they should okay I'm not saying they will I've seen some that didn't but they got clean fingernails yeah I ain't got no fingernails I tell I don't know what the heck's going on but I'm talking more country around Roger I can feel it it may be it may be in in the air it's rubbing off on me man okay great if you want to see a gauge yeah yes the reason I don't talk on on camera two country two country uh the meat the thing me and John are working on is over there I ain't gonna show you that yet they look pretty good don't they okay cool that's awesome okay so a gauge is a thing to check a part that you've made to make sure it works right it's a two-fold deal it's not just gauge they actually do a setup sheet on each part and there's certain features and dimensions that are checked on for a big competitor uh a depth mic whatever whatever they got to use like an optical comparator or a depth Micron right right I'm just interpreting right here yeah you speak the language is it so in all seriousness that that alone probably takes years is to learn the vocabulary of the trade right you hear that it takes years to learn to speak like I suppose oh man watch me put it on wrong okay it's not what they call it after read gauge a what attribute gauge attribute gauge okay and basically this is this is at the Press so as it's running as it's running and like I say I'm not trained in this gauge okay but anyway tip to these gauges are clamped one or more places this one just happened to be two anyway that comes down that locks that in and basically that's for checking in this oh this is color coded so you got a red gauge so red means no go green means go red is actually the gauge you're using see that yes red and red tells me I need to check there okay the green is gold red is no go here but that color coding there is to tell you what attribute you're checking with that gauge okay so a gauge is a way for an operator who's making a machine work it's a way for them to measure the quality of their process as they're doing right that's what gauge is right so you've got this gauge right here right this is a go and a no-go gauge correct so the no-go is bigger and and the go is smaller and you're going to make sure you're gonna check this attribute right here correct all right let's go for it so you're picking that thing up you're gonna bring it right in here so is this the go or the no-go that's a go the go should be able to go and it does it's free to go and then the no-go cannot fit can't go at all so that's a huge Tolerance on that particular part that's a huge dollar okay but the same thing works like within thousands of an inch right and so then you could say this particular part inspection right and you can sell it to the customer right okay do you have to check every single part no how many do you check I would say hourly yeah they checked three to five every hour when they're running the parts so this is we do have a quality lab and we can do a full Quality Inspection of the part with Optical parameters CMM but this is so the operator can check Parts basically on the Fly and make sure there's no major problems while they're while they're in production but we do have a quality lab that does pretty intensive quality checks all right so the tool engage and the tool and die people are the backbone of the manufacturing process absolutely okay and operators use tools that you guys create yeah but okay and The Operators you know their actual skill a lot of them are very skills the die Setters and operators uh just loading a diagram can cost a lot of money if they if they do do something they shouldn't do so their skills are up there too these people know what they're doing I know what they're doing okay that's awesome great thank you very much you're welcome edit you out I'll edit your accent in keep me out of the front so the dies that we looked at this is what they start out as so this is just raw steel this is the stuff that gets machined into punches and forms and uh any kind of dye still you can imagine this is what it starts out looking like okay is this tool steel uh most of it is either A2 Steel there's some cold there's there's some D2 and some cold roll in there but most of it most of it's tool steel A2 can we look at your bridgeports real quick sure yeah cool yeah yes sir one second so if we're back on we're rolling again say it again I said these these gauges are specialized they're built by people that that's what they do that's that's that's their genre those gauges yes okay they're they're based on how the models they take a model and they'll engage the model so you guys bought that gauge yes they're built they're built by Jade filter okay okay we build some gauges but not to that level okay sounds good so what if I understand what just happened you realized I was learning the vocabulary and you were afraid I was going to give you credit for that game is that right yeah okay yeah understand because you have pride in your work yeah well and you know they have pride in their work we build some gauges too but you know they're very special we can't compete with other folks you know that's what they do every day you know we our cost would be way way above what what they cost to get those built because that's what they do every day okay just like that building we don't build injection molds we build ice yeah thanks Roger yeah that's good now you want to qualify that you get all right so I asked Weston if I could say this how's it going I asked Western if I could see this all your Bridge ports that's the strength of American manufacturing yep yep when you think the tool and die a lot of people the first thing they think of is a Bridgeport so this is basically a manual uh Machining center it's you're essentially looking at the same machine right here but this the CNC is automated so you program the machine on a computer and with a Bridge Port you do it manually with cranks and handles and and you guys all these run all of them run yep that's awesome these haven't been set up in a while that's good but we still use these quite a bit um you know there's it takes quite a bit of time to to program a CNC and you know if we just need to crank out a die steel pretty quick we'll get one of our machinists to throw a piece of Steel on there and machine is out Cody our CNC programmer stays pretty busy too really yep so you Cody hey I'm destined man what's up so you're the CNC operator yeah is it uh what are you working on now uh just some prototype stuff really yeah so there's like development yeah you're trying to figure out the good stuff what do you run you run Mastercam or yeah yeah Mastercam do you do you do G-Code by hand ever uh if I have to edit I'll do I normally will edit by hand uh instead of having to come back over here to do it but uh man you got a gamer chair here at TNC stamping what's up man he's doing some Twitch streaming on the side does it gets slow you start Twitch streaming you got a big pretty comfortable we sit here for a couple hours do you really can staring at this computer you know yeah is it a uh how often do you kill a part I've killed three in three years I I don't do it often I they they let me take my time and kind of do it pretty thorough so so I'm pretty careful how have you learned did you go to school for it I did yeah and uh I self-taught a lot of it um didn't have a lot of opportunities to learn it in previous places of employment so I actually bought Master camp for my home use and just learned it at home when I would get off work at night really and I kind of taught myself how to do it and I went to school for Machining and taught myself how to program where did you go to school Northwest Shoals Northwest Shoals that's awesome dude so you decided you wanted a skill to be marketable and you went and bought it at home to invest in yourself yeah they they didn't want to train me to do it where I was working I was the night shift supervisor and they didn't want me to change roles so I just I just invested in myself and and got it for my home use and learned it and and found somebody to hire me to do it and then it was Game On from there dude that's awesome congratulations thank you what was your name again Cody Martin Cody yeah that's dude that's that's the way to do it yeah has it paid off oh for sure yeah yeah I love it yeah that's cool I'm sure thanks buddy I'm gonna steal this all right thank you very much but he's he's writing a program for essentially everything that he puts into that CNC it's not this is not a production CNC where he just pushes a button he writes a program for everything that goes in there so that's not there's not a lot of people that can do that how on Earth I'm trying to learn CNC right now how on Earth did you learn the speeds and feeds about your listening really if it sounds like crap it's probably not right and he's just literally constantly adjusting and uh there's there's formulas out there and that's a good starting sfm formula yeah you can it's a good starting point and then you know go from there and just start adjusting while it's running on a machine and what sounds good and what's coming off is a good ship and not burnt and when it sounds like butter you're cooking with gas that's awesome dude nice to meet you Cody yeah you okay with everything so far so far so so what we're moving into now with the blender blade area don't want to get real close up to those presses just kind of you know maybe from here to the window or so is about as close as we want to get to those for safety reasons or proprietary reasons proprietary reasons okay sure yeah all right so these guys have figured out the blender blade production system right yeah that's right I did it I need to give this back this is the this is the blender blade manufacturing cell so one of our largest customers is a kitchen appliance manufacturer and we uh we stamp every blender blade that goes in their blenders which if any every blender blade you see in this particular brand of blender it's made right here it happens out Athens Alabama the blender blade capital of this company that we're not going to talk about so so last year we stamped between 35 and 40 million blender blades that's amazing it's uh it's a lot of blenders but there how are you doing they're stamped right here in this cell it's food grade steel food grade stainless steel they're they're washed and they're packaged and they go straight to the crates of the Assembly Center in Mexico from uh from this cell right here can we see stuff going in there is it okay to see what we can't how you doing how are you doing so she makes it happen she makes it happen yeah so this is the actual part we're looking at here so you make millions of those a year yep yeah so so you run all these presses yes sir and do you ever cut yourself on the blades I'm really extra careful you're extra careful sometimes I might need myself before it's um very careful this is this is probably the worst audio environment to record anything but can you show me a basket uh this right here so these are the blender blades are these done these are uh ready are they put in the wash they're gonna be washed why right here that's what you're doing over there Boston then I'm drawing wow you know right here all of it right so that gets the oil off of it yes sir get the oil off of it and it dries it and it comes up now and I had to fix whatever do you do it by weight how do you know how many are in here counter okay I can imagine you don't want people to see that right yeah yeah so don't look at that can I blur it okay cool what color is that Tabitha it's a pleasure to meet you we'll steal that from you okay thank you so much there's things about that process we can't show so we've probably blurred some stuff out yeah yeah but um this is the uh so this is the oldest part of the plant this is this green press this is a 160 ton press here I can hear it like a dragon yeah it's it's back there you've seen that part before haven't you know it sounds like a dragon but this is actually the first press that we that we bought so this one right here this was the first press that ran stamping for GNC do you still use it we still use it yeah almost every day so this one right here yep it's a stamp Tech uh 160 tons I usually you can see the tonnage that's labeled on the Press so this one is a 160 ton the biggest press we have is a 330 ton you know stamping equipment hasn't really evolved a lot over the past half century uh Servo presses which we'll see in the other building that's really the biggest and latest and greatest technology in stamping but for the most part stamping presses have been the same for the last 50 years and this is a good example of that so it still works it was a good investment yep yep that was probably uh I don't know that was probably a 10 15 000 press back in the 80s and it's uh probably makes that per week now this is the older part of the plant when we talked about coiled steel this is how we receive materials so when we receive raw material that's what it looks like so is that is that that's not a die right there that we no so this is so just to take you through the process so this is a d-realer so you have a reel or a coil steel it's loaded onto the derailer then it's fed through a straightener so coil steel has a bow in it naturally because of the coil because it comes in coil form so it goes through a straightener basically you have rollers on the top of the bottom that apply pressure and straighten the part then you have a feeder so the green part in there is the feeder that's boiling it I can see that yeah so that's actually what is pulling the material into the press and through the dye and then you have the Press itself so at first glance it's a pretty simple part but you actually have a hem on this side of the park that's completely folded over to uh that's hard to do it's really hard to do and it's being done in a progressive stamping time it's a pretty impressive so this is all scrap this is all scrap so uh you'll see these scrap bins beside every press and this is melting down turned back into boiled steel and a lot of it right back here you can see it happens so that thing is slamming up and down how do you keep from hurting yourself on that so if you look at every press in here they have these yellow bars on the sides of the press so that's actually a lighter so you have a laser that reflects off of a mirror and goes into a receptive point and that's there's we call it a light shirt so if you go inside that it'll cut off that's right so there's a light curtain on every press in this Factory so I'll use the rags for example but if you break that light barrier so from there uh where's it at so that yellow thing and then back okay yeah stuff so that's how we keep from hands and arms and things like that getting cut off the stamping used to be be notorious for injuries missing Limbs and things like that we've pretty much eliminated all the risk of that that's awesome yeah so we got a derailer a straightener I'm seeing a gauge and you said that's recycled every every bit of Scrappy Z today is in the cycle that's amazing thank you it's amazing what's up man I can hear it punching yeah you hear the Breakthrough you hear the break so we you know just to kind of show you the size range of Champions we do the stampings we've seen so far are on the larger end of what we do but we do pretty pretty small stamping too so this uh this die here is actually stamping three parts with one stroke so we call it a three out three part with one stroke what's up Chris oh yeah you gotta avoid the light curve yeah that's a Barrel Roll I just need one how you doing I'm destined for you nice to meet you Chris Chris is the supervisor of this particular building oh wow so sometimes you jump in and you're running presses yeah this is a this is a barrel called a barrel you said a barrel yep it goes on a shaft and rotates and then Appliance application it's doing that in one stroke or two uh it's doing this in one stroke and we're and they're you're getting three parts per stroke so if you look at the strip oh man I just got inside the mind of the designer you can't you can't if you're doing three parts per stroke you can't do them all in the same flame because it'll potato chip so they're staggering it a little bit um it's deal the reason I understood it was at a diagonal is so you can keep the parts segregated when you press the part so you have a left right and center and then they stay segregated oh wow when they come off but for quality purposes you can tell them the right office left off the center is up but that makes sense but you you may be right if you Stamps no I just made that up I don't have this is my first time in a metal stamping Factory Chris knows if I asked Chris a quick question so can you tell if the breast is messed up by a hearing yeah it will make a different sound it'll make a different sound you'll notice you need to shut it off and check it out and you know what's going wrong or you know to go get the tool and die guys all right thanks Chris what's the loud one that sounds like a dragon it's dolphin okay that's our 200 ton press uh in the middle of this particular building runs a lot of automotive parts with it but some some tools are louder than others based on the gauge of the steel the number of moving Parts in the die this is a particularly wild diet uh what's it making it what's it making it's an automotive bracket it's a dashboard component okay there's another gauge there's a game there's a gauge It's actually an aluminum bracket so we do quite a bit of aluminum here too along with steel thank you I think it's loud it's loud this is Tim how you doing hey so how many parts will this make a day it'll do about uh 24 000 on 24 000. wow why is it so loud compared to the other one Fred is kind of getting some amazing okay but it's still working yeah that works great it's just kind of old you always wear and protected absolutely yeah absolutely absolutely that's amazing it's a lot louder when I'm riding with nothing else running really I think it's just the way to press it is interesting is does it always run the same thing or do you run different parts I've got another aluminum part A 107 and 108 I've got to put it in after this one how many years have you worked here he says what was your name again Tim nice to meet you been here for 10 years do you like it oh yeah I love it I wish that I came to work here yeah good people absolutely yeah that's great nice to meet you Tim if I understood him correctly he'll run that press and then he'll come get another tool and he'll he'll bang out another threat however many parts yep if it's a really high volume part it's gonna run every day we'll have a press That's dedicated to that part but for the most part um the presses here run several different Dives wow so why why stamping why not you know I've been asked that question a lot a lot of times you know how did my granddad and his business partner come up with the idea and um my granddad worked in sourcing before he started CNC stamping he was responsible for uh purchasing stamping and uh he saw a need for it and he knew John Turner was uh owned a tool and Dodge shop and saw the opportunity to to do this for a living they collaborated bought the first press and kept going yep that's right that's awesome he passed away in 1997 and my dad and his sister that you met they run the business now and so I'm pretty confident your dad worked with my dad I think they did yeah Saginaw so when uh so my dad was an engineer in Saginaw he's a mechanical engineer and uh his dad was in tool and Gates okay yeah so they probably crossed paths but uh my granddad was running TNC and they didn't have a very robust quality system so he hired my dad to come develop the quality system here and that's still number one priority in Tennessee today it's that quality starts at the top and slows down that's awesome dude yeah what's this so this is a this is a heat shield so the uh the heat shield that we looked at in the tool shop yeah uh that's that goes on one side of a V-twin engine this heat shield goes on the other side of a v-slint engine uh it needs to go to the Briggs and Stratton Factory down in Auburn so every B twin every they call it a mid-block between every Beach Midlock Beachland they make an Auburn we uh that does not translate to audio on the video that's loud there is something happening with that bangs oh yeah I recognize that so this is the it's not the same part but it's similar so the part we saw would be one side of the one it's a heat shield for one side of the cylinder and then this is a heat shield for the other cylinder so if you think of a V-Twin you've got a heat shield on this side of the heat shield on this side oh so I can I see how it's all happening now yeah man that's fast how you doing doing well why are you catching them making sure it works good so a lot of times you'll have a slug so this is a piece of crap just punched out of the park a lot of times you'll have a piece of crap we call it a slug to get hung up in the dime it can have some have to affect the quality of the park whether it's aesthetic layer or have some effect on some kind of Dimension so what he's doing is looking at the park and just making sure there's enough blood mark it'll go through a pretty rigorous quality check but um so we don't run a few thousand parts and miss anything how big is this a 275 tons round 75-ton Chris wow foreign thank you foreign foreign that's amazing so this is it goes on the same Beach when in on at the base of the engine shaft so this is also 275 tons 275 ton and he's got a single single stroke it so what that means is he pushes the Palm buttons in a press Cycles one time so I can see what else so you can see what happens so you'll see the material progressing through the die and that's awesome all right Chris you gonna single serve this one all right can you can you hit the button when I'm ready all right so let's so we're starting with blank steel let's punch that hole in it Chris all right now let's punch another set of holes in it it indexes now what happens now it's gonna start forming it or more holes form the outside okay now you're gonna form it all right ready and you're just checking them as they come off how they look what was your name sir Leroy nice to meet you you do you do awesome work man that's amazing Leroy's mom was one of the first employees of the TNC really so how long have you worked here Leroy a year and your mom's worked here for how long so it's a generational thing that's awesome man and did she run presses too that's great man it's nice to meet you yeah dude that was the uh that was the moment where he could see everything and you understand what's happening yeah it's it's a hard it's a hard manufacturing process to describe I've tried to describe it to people in five minutes or less and you just can't you can't yeah it's amazing all right so where to now so we'll go across the parking lot to the the newer side of our facility we'll look at some some Servo presses over there our quality department and uh a few more presses so what's making these purses hit is it a flywheel so there's a flywheel we can we can see the flywheel foreign flywheel um every press we've seen so far that is uh that's what creates the energy that's what creates the force so you take you take you take electric energy and make mechanical momentum is that the flywheel correct so does that mean there's a clutch there is a clutch yep so the clutch engages the flywheel and strokes it down correct yeah even the big one does that even the big one so every press we've seen so far and every press really for the past 50 years has operated just like this but what we'll see on the other side of the parking lot is called a Servo press the press that uses electric motors to actually drive the front to bang it out and there's a lot of features of Servo press that this press cannot do and it's pretty impressive that's the way this this industry moves do people work those presses all day long every day uh yeah so we work a 410 schedule here we don't we used to have a second and third shift but right now it's just four days a week 10 hours a day and uh so yeah that's what they do that's amazing we try to create as relaxed of a work environment as we can for manufacturing there's nobody breathing down their neck or looking over their shoulder you know they they're expected to to work hard but there's no benchmarks or anything like that so everybody seems like really cool yeah we're really relaxed yeah and that's the kind of the environment we try to create it's you know turnover is a big problem in manufacturing and we've been lucky to hang on to a lot of good people because of because of that so good poker yeah culture yeah absolutely yeah you can um you know you can have somebody standing there with a clipboard making sure somebody meets their production rate but when they work for a month and leave what good have you done you know so yeah so in terms of manufacturing in America the human rights is a big part of it like people you're cool with people let people like have a life that's right yeah yeah I mean we understand you know at the end of the day this is this is a paycheck for people this isn't they don't do this for fun but we want to make it as enjoyable as we can while they're here you know it's a manufacturing plant it's hard work but there are things you can do in their systems you can put in place to make sure people don't feel like they're under too much pressure so yeah this is Todd this is the guy that makes up Todd he makes he's our maintenance manager what's up Todd I'm destined all right I'm good good to meet you man smartest man in the plant right you're the smartest man he makes it all work yeah yeah so this is raw material warehouse this is where we receive all of our raw material in in coil form like we talked about this is just steel or that looks like aluminum oh that's galvanized galvanized steel would do do a lot of galvanized there's a lot of metal man it's it's quite a bit we process I think it's 10 million pounds a year so 5 000 tons I think so that comes out too but and that's that's mid-sized stampings you know we're not there there's people out there with thousand two three thousand ton uh presses but but we're we're a mid-sized Stamper so um but yeah we process mostly just cold roll steel galvanized a little bit of stainless a little bit of aluminum a little bit of red metal too so we do copper bronze phosphor bronze so these are Parts rated ship out so these are in processed parts so uh this particular part it's a heat shield like we've seen but it'll have nuts that get inserted into the part and we'll see that so we do a lot of manual assembly too you'll stake them and stuff so yeah so we'll have uh Pim we call them Pim nuts so they're they're threaded nuts that get inserted into the park so these process these are are still working process parts so they're staged ready to go into the assembly area so most of the red metal stuff we do is electrical contacts to show me a part yeah yeah we can well we have some parts out there but you can see just how thin the material is because most of them are internal electromechanical type parts probably shouldn't touch this because it'll yeah you actually we required operators to use gloves when they're handling the red metal because it will tarnish thanks for taking that into account but yeah yeah this is uh we usually receive most of our material in in the morning so if you come in here at seven o'clock in the morning there's forklifts everywhere material being received in so so as we walk in here can you tell me why people should do this in America rather than overseas uh yeah there's uh I guess the number one reason is that stuff's going to go wrong so if you're in manufacturing there's going to be problems and um you know if you have an overseas supplier there's a time difference obviously you can't jump on a plane and be there or get in your car and be there in a few hours a lot of our customers are Regional Briggs and Stratton is a good example down in Auburn if we have an issue or if they have an issue with us I can be down there in three and a half hours and we can work it out and we can be running parts that afternoon so and with just-in-time delivery they don't like to keep a lot of any customer they don't like to keep a lot of inventory I mean when you're shipping cargo containers from overseas you have to find somewhere to store that stuff we can run parts put it on a truck and have it to you the same week so just in time delivery there's a big push to to cut down on on excess inventory and have boxes and containers sitting everywhere in your Warehouse so a regional supplier can kind of meet that need you know we can like I said we can run parts and we can have them to you that same week so so basically the ability to change the dies or fix any product problems there's the logistics of it and you said safety was another one yeah safety is another one so there's we run some parts that are safety critical we run some parts that serve the rail industry and in particular railroad crossing arms those parts Can't Fail there's you know it's just a matter of security and when you when you get down to the nitty-gritty the parts that you buy from overseas just don't have the same quality reputation that you buy here in the United States so Parts like that they're customers that are willing to pay a premium to have them made here in the United States so it's awesome yeah are we about to go through that door yeah so this is our what we're cut this is our quick door so our raw material Warehouse is not climate controlled oh um so this is a way to just contain that cool air here in the during the summer and contain that warm air during the winter yeah rather than a garage door slowly going up and down we have our quick door and it kind of helps keep this area climate control how are you doing this is the part we were looking at out there so these are so what she's doing is inserting the nuts how are you doing I'm destined Sharon nice to meet you so we're starting the nuts yeah so she had takes apart with no nuts I'm making a video about how they do what they do oh okay how is that working how many of these do you do a day Sharon um wow 300 that's amazing yeah you're doing quality control I'm gonna not bother you so you don't get hurt so she's doing quality control as she's going thanks Sharon thank you yeah nice to meet you as well so these are our two Servo presses we bought the one on the left in 2018 and then we bought the one on the right in 2019. these are the newest latest and greatest stamping presses you can buy so we looked at the cast iron flywheel the generation of power so these actually have electric motors the generation power for the stamping operation that's amazing yep we'll see if they're about to run yeah so this is another Automotive bracket so you have the two studs that are actually inserted in the die so you have two studs that are fed three as as it's going as it's going so these are the parts these are the parts how is it put in there so we have a stud insertion unit that is in the die you see the tubes that come we'll go around the back side of the dial once he starts it but we have tubes that feed the studs in through the dye and then we have a head unit in there that inserts these and actually stake them into the material while the part is still attached to the strip so you'll take two parts and put them together inside the progressive Rod yep that sounds very complicated it's pretty complicated that feels like a big deal it's it's a pretty big deal and it's a big cost savings too because this would typically have to be done in a secondary operation like we just saw with Sharon so this is this way you have a finished part that bulbs off the press you can put it in the box and ship it to the cup that's awesome why why are there cages around that that tool so you have loose parts that are being attached to a fixed part um and when you have moving parts and 330 tons of force coming down and it could shoot out it could shoot out so yeah it's just a safety precaution um this is one of the few this is one of the few parts we have that there are loose objects being attached to a fixed objects and it's just the safety precaution we have got it one of the features of a Servo press is that on a traditional mechanical press the stroke speed is the same throughout the entire press Pro so if you can look at this press behind us the stroke speed remains constant where the entire press broke is that good or bad it's really hasn't made a difference up at this point but what you can do with a Servo press is you can bring the press down to bottom you can actually slow the stroke speed to it let's say the material requires a draw if you have a fast throw you could potentially tear that material so you slow the stroke down draw the material and then you can feed the Press Strokes back up to clear for the material as it moves forward I know it's a little that was hard yeah yeah that was our I've hung with you this whole time and then you introduce Servo presses and it blew my mind okay so what say it again so you go you go down you can hold it down so you can you can slow the print you can hold it down or you can slow the Press Strokes down to draw the material so let's say you have to control you're essentially stretching steel if you do it quickly you can you can tear the material and so what a Servo press can do is when you draw the material you can speed the stroke back up I got it it's a strain rate yeah if you if you pull it too fast you exceed the tensile stress if you do it slow you can keep it in the plastic regime and stretch it but after the so you can see how it comes down and slows down and then speeds back up oh there's more finesse to it so you actually Speed The Stroke back up to clear for the strip let's see and that's a thermopress thanks buddy light screens are up there can I stand right there right here yes sir we can go around the back side too if we need you I like that the hollow sound when it punches the metal but the Press stroke speed is that's the big deal with the servo presses but you don't have to have a constant pressure of speed but the tubes are where the pin nuts I'm sorry the studs are being so the studs are coming in those pipes and they're being dead indirectly oh I can see it if you look close you can see where it's going in so this is feeding this this is feeding the nuts in yep oh yeah it's done it's done going in those tubes way up and then it's going in yep it's complicated wow very thin yep dude that's serious metal punching yeah but there are a lot of things we we can do with a Servo breast that we can't do with a traditional mechanical press got it this is a serious business you guys are operating yeah yeah a lot of people are surprised to know that it's here in Athens yeah we ship parts all over the world really and we just do it right here in Aspen that's amazing what are you making here um so this is the surprise Series so we can't show anything you can you can show it from a distance I'll get the part and we can look at it I'll just blur it out okay yeah so this is an electric motor uh Mount um so what you have is essentially three pieces so you have the the u-shaped Mount yeah you have the square part here that's a stamping that that stamping is actually stamped in that small green press behind you okay and then you have the bearing so there's three parts so you're making a part that incorporates a bearing and you're doing it all here correct yeah so this part is manufactured in one process how long did it take you to develop that process when it was all said and done we had a few years worth of worth of work into it but so so that's why I can't show any of this yeah yeah there were there'd be some people that were upset with me that spent several years developing this if I'd put it on on or if Destin puts it on YouTube yeah but but once you develop this process you've established yourself as a as an indispensable part of the supply chain correct so our our mission is to provide value to the customer um and if we can do that by taking a manual operation and automating it that's that's and that's another way to keep jobs here in the United States too if you sent this part overseas there's a good chance that those three parts will be assembled by hand so if we can automate it here that's a great way to keep jobs in the states and we have the ability to do that here that's awesome that's great wow so these are some of the smaller presses we have um dude this is like an army of presses yeah so this is uh TNC used to be full of presses this size um and they're small a lot of them are fingernail size electrical contacts and things like that and and a lot of that has gone overseas because you can fit 10 000 Parts in a box it just doesn't make sense to do it here when you could uh when you can get it done overseas at half the price and Freight is is dirt cheap so we've seen unfortunately seen a lot of that go overseas so we're moving in the direction of larger stampings that make sense to have a local Regional supplier but your tooling is a differentiator right it is so like you guys make the tooling correct so the majority of the tooling you see on this rack we built a lot of them are 40 50 some of them 60 years old so we have hand-drawn prints in our quality Department that tells you how old some of these parts are do people call you and say hey I need 10 000 of this widget yeah so this is uh thank you let's see this is uh an electrical contact here so this is a brass part the way our business model works is our customer calls or well sends in an order let's say they need 10 000 pieces we'll pull the die we'll put it in a press we'll run the 10 000 pieces put them in a box and ship them so and we may keep inventory whatever kind of stocking agreement we have with the customer do you own the diet does the customer own the die uh in most cases customer owns it to them so it's an asset that they pay for up front we build and essentially they have the right to come in here and get it and take it anywhere they want to but um if we build a tool we're familiar with it they trust us with it keep it here run the part so it's a relationship it is a relationship yeah that's awesome yeah I don't know what this machine is but I like it so that's a d-realer that's an old derailer but you know they work and they work like they're supposed to so oh I see what's happening you stretch that in and out to kind of push against the ID of the coil I'm a simple man Western years I get excited so this is finished goods Warehouse yeah can we see a couple that you're proud of yeah yeah so like if somebody wants to get a part made in Athens Alabama by some dude named Weston how do they do that um so they would send us the way it works is we we received an engineering print um and with that includes material specs um Quality you know any kind of quality control let's see Dimensions you know everything that's needed to to manufacture the park you send it to us and then we'll return a quote so it's really as simple as that usage is a big Factor as well so you know 500 pieces a year versus 5 million pieces a year because your tooling is a huge investment tooling is a huge investment and material too we run into minimum material purchases and things like that so you know it's important for us to know the usage as well but and we're not specific to one industry you know I've mentioned automotive and Appliance a lot but if you name an industry we we serve it most likely so but these are just some of the parts we run these these are all folks about your part so every book you see is a uh is a part that's that we run here so that's it contains all of the setup inspection the wow so in theory in theory a a new person um a new person that I'm sorry I'm cornering you out here so oh wait that's a huge go no go gauge that's huge so so in theory a person that uh hires on here goes through the tool and die program they start learning how things work they should be able even though they never run apart come pick up a book here and then figure out how to set up a press uh so well somebody wouldn't hire on a tool and die program so they would hire on as a press operator but in theory yes if they came and got a part-specific book they should be able to pick up where the last operator left off oh so you bring up people through the Press operator program in order to develop their skills correct that's smart yeah yeah and Brandon the guy you met he was a press operator for several years and and moved into the tool and dive program so duel and die is a little more specialized um you know you don't just hire in as a tool and die maker most of the time but uh yeah so a lot of times the operator when they show a lot of potential they move up through the pipeline into doing that program that's awesome is this the quality Department yeah this is a quality department so can I look back here yeah sure you have cmn I see I see you got gauge blocks yeah oh Optical comparator I haven't seen one of those in a while that's great um but we actually do have a handheld CMM so this is oh yeah yeah I see it is this the uh the ones that cat oh I see I see what's going on yeah we just passed the CMM operator on our way in here again they're on breaks so this is this is an optical CMM and basically it can tell where the the hand is and it can tell where the probe is I mean this is where the operators get the green light to either run parts or or stop what we do what's called a setup inspection so when we get an order for parts or we put a die back in the Press we'll run a first run sample and then they're brought here to the quality lab to uh so the quality inspectors can run their processes and tests to make sure the dimensions are met if they are they getting the green light and they run the production run if not the tool goes back to the tool shop and you know they figure out what's wrong with the die so that's awesome yeah so this is actually this is an example of a customer's assembly so um one of our customers I mentioned is they manufacture a railroad crossing arms so this is a a mechanical relay that is inside of a Crossing arm we manufacture all of the red metal contacts you see in here and if you look close there's a little silver part in there that silver part is almost a little bit thing on the top little little tiny silver part there that's almost pure silver and you got stamp pure silver here yep that's right so the reason for that is you you this this assembly cannot fail in the field you're talking about lives being at stake if the if the assembly fails so that's the reason for the really specific material requirements for this but some of the other stuff is it made as well uh yeah so the the big bracket here we do that and you know this is this used to be a lot of what we do these electric Electro mechanical relays and contacts and Terminals and things like that but we're getting more into the structural stampings the larger stampings as like I mentioned a lot of this stuff has gone overseas but the really high risk stampings they they're they're still they still like to find domestic suppliers and so that's where we come in but like I said we're moving more into the structural larger stampings so that's interesting yeah I think it's the shipping cost goes up overseas you're going to see some of the smaller stuff come back we have started to at least see quote opportunities none of it has materialized yet but yeah there there is seems to be a push to bring things back to the United States um onshoring onshoring yet you know whether it be political tensions overseas or labor shortages or material shortages you're seeing a big push to bring that back to the United States and just reduce that risk that a lot of people are exposing themselves to but that's awesome yeah cool thank you for showing me all this this is a quality Department how's it going I'm destined nice to meet you where is everybody Carol everybody's gone everybody's gone everybody heard the camera was coming through break time everybody's everybody's eating sweet stuff's happening all right all right so Wes is going to walk us through it one more time now that we know what we're looking at so if we start over here start over here okay so raw material is fit and like this is the this is the bottom of the die and this is the top of the die so got it in the press this this side's essentially upside down but you have raw material and coil form that comes in this side um holes or Pierce trims are made so you have the part in the flat State and then the forming starts so you have uh you there's several of the holes that get formed to keep from the wires electrical wires being cut and things like that but the forming starts and then the final forms are made and uh let's see is it upside down there we go there we go and then you have the part that's the final form is done and then it's cut off and Falls kicks off falls down it's awesome all right so here's the tool that is a single tool half of it can you help make it or somebody did you help make it work sheet metal comes along here chunk chunk chunk cutting the holes making the features and eventually an entire part falls off that's amazing and then it goes to Sharon and she puts nuts on it that's right is it that part right there that rivet thing does that happen inside it does happen Mark can tell you exactly where it happens I think it's right here here okay cam comes down and drives that forward engages and it actually pins it right there again so it's not a rivet but it's a all right so what so in this part let me do this because we learned a lot through the process can I stick this back on you I think the technical term for it is a toxox c-o-x t-o-x t-o-x all right so things that happened to this part while it's moving so it shears it it punches holes it rolls things and forms them that's a hem right there and then this this feature right here what do you call that feature it's talks t-o-x t-o-x toxlock and the punch comes in from this side and engages with the shape that's in this upper part when it's when it reaches final bottom and it's formed the part up wrap this around that punch comes in and it hems the two pieces together so it's almost like a spot weld but not right it's amazing I'm never gonna look at my my lawnmower the same I'm gonna look at all the pieces now and see how they were made thank you guys very much yeah appreciate it sweet yeah all right that's it I can't believe you just watched that whole video I'm grateful that you did if you like this sort of thing feel free to subscribe to this the second Channel smarter every day too I think that would be awesome and you would probably like the email list if if you like this deeper dive content so if you go to smartereveryday.com you can click on the link that says email list and I will send an email every time I upload a new video and that's a great way to reach out directly and there's no algorithms in between us so thank you so much that's it I'm Destin you're getting smarter every day have a good one bye [Music]

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Length: 87min 2sec (5222 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 31 2023