Home
Creators
Search Recent Random
Posts
Search DMs Popular Hash Lookup Tags Random
Importer
Import FAQ
Register Favorites Keys Review DMs Logout
Community
Telegram ThePornDude
Home Creators Posts Import Register Favorites Logout

The Mind-Blowing Machines that Stamp Millions of Metal Parts - Smarter Every Day 288 (Patreon)

Published:
2023-07-31 15:54:39
Imported:
2026-06
Tags:

Content

This is the beginning of the manufacturing series! We're going to start with Metal Stamping.  I hope you love it! I didn't know what a progressive stamping die was, and I feel like I just took a master class on it! 

Side note: there has been a huge issue on the channel that I haven't mentioned to anyone.  For a dumb paperwork reason, Smarter Every Day hasn't been monetized for 3 weeks now.  I wanted to take a moment to express my gratitude for your direct support on Patreon. It matters far more than you realize! 

Files

The Mind-Blowing Machines that Stamp Millions of Metal Parts - Smarter Every Day 288

Try AnyDesk for FREE! It's good. 👉👉 https://anydesk.com/smarter 👈👈 I actually used it to finish uploading this video!! You'll seriously like it! Click here if you're interested in subscribing: http://bit.ly/Subscribe2SED ⇊ Click below for more links! ⇊ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GET SMARTER SECTION Check out T & C Stamping here: https://tandcstamping.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tweet Ideas to me at: http://twitter.com/smartereveryday Smarter Every Day on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/SmarterEveryDay Smarter Every Day on Patreon http://www.patreon.com/smartereveryday Smarter Every Day On Instagram http://www.instagram.com/smartereveryday Smarter Every Day SubReddit http://www.reddit.com/r/smartereveryday Ambiance, audio and musicy things by: Gordon McGladdery https://www.ashellinthepit.com/ http://ashellinthepit.bandcamp.com/ If you feel like this video was worth your time and added value to your life, please SHARE THE VIDEO! If you REALLY liked it, feel free to pitch a few dollars Smarter Every Day by becoming a Patron. http://www.patreon.com/smartereveryday Warm Regards, Destin

Comments

Noah Banks

I have been watching more of your back catalog (I really enjoyed rewatching the submarine and Coast Guard series). I decided to become a patron because of how much I enjoy and appreciate your videos. Thanks Destin!

Steve Jones

Awesome video as always.. LOVE that you are encouraging people to look to skilled trade jobs! Definitely look for the "Made in USA" stickers whenever possible! Also.. you said you were "Speaking country" in that one scene.. In my family, that is known as "Talking Farm", as coined by my nephew when he was about 4 and visiting my mom (his grandmother) who lived out in Western MD near Paw Paw WV. He asked her why her neighbors were all "talking farm" when they visited.. :-) Keep up the great work.. Proud to be a patreon supporter as I live vicariously through your adventures!!!

Steve Kurt

very cool! As a retired electronics engineer, I still worked with our mechanical engineers to create packages, brackets, etc., for the electronics. I needed to understand and appreciate the mechanical aspects of our products, and it was critical (and fun) to learn about these sorts of production methods. Fascinating stuff! Thanks to you and the folks you interviewed!

Amy Tobol

How can we help? Not click over to YouTube? Withhold likes?

5731la

I'm gonna take a guess that none of that will help. You not watching a video won't affect YouTube at all, while also negatively affecting the channel (not a large amount, but waaaaaay more than it'll affect YouTube.)

Amy Tobol

I think you are right. It sucks though, because youtube is still reaping the benefits of Destin's hard work.

Amy Tobol

Every time Destin stuck his fingers into the cutty pokey bits, my fingers curled into little knots 😱

divya

Loving this so far. Looking forward to the rest of the series! Btw, we build robots (https://yard.bot) and we're in Huntsville in case you need folks for the robot part.

David Glover

Hi Destin. Thank you so much for producing this series on manufacturing. I have been fascinated for years by the number of small to medium sized companies we have in Michigan that produce a huge variety of products for automotive and aerospace to name a few. Now I can enjoy actually seeing the process. Really appreciate your enthusiasm as well. Take Care!

Matt Larson

Cool video. My first job as a machinist was at a tool and die shop that specialized in progressive stamping. It was a terrible company to work for but the work and finished parts were super cool and the most enjoyable part of the job. Since then i went from being a manual machine machinist to a CNC machinist to die repair to CNC programmer to 3D printing to 5 axis CNC programming and now i program CNC lasers and press brakes. I love the manufacturing industry. It is so cool and there is so much room for innovation and improvement. I look forward to your next videos and hope they draw more young people into the trades.

Kurtis Moss

This is why I love SED!!! Either learning about things I’ve wondered about for years that were tucked deep into the back of my mind- or about things I never knew I wanted to learn about. This video has both… as does pretty much every video of Destin’s. Keep up the good work

Michael Peters

John over on the channel NYC CNC filmed a tour of Superb Industries, another company manufacturing parts in the USA. it is more from the machinist point of view. https://youtu.be/sm8w0YU4qOg

Scott Cloutier

This video and the start of the series gave me an idea for the 2023 Patreon surprise. Maybe Destin can commission one of the manufacturing companies to make a small widget with the SED logo cut/stamped onto it. When I was in the Navy, a cool thing was the “challenge coin” that was usually a half dollar size coin with a design for the ship or command that you were assigned to. It was commonplace to trade coins with other sailors. Hopefully an idea like this wouldn’t be prohibitively expensive.

Myron Dietz

I am very excited by this series. I loved the time I spent in Oklahoma at an electronics manufacturing company. There is something very satisfying about seeing something physical being created with your work (even though I worked in the office).

Michael Schecker

last 42 years i´have designed stamping- and pressing tools - now in pre-retirement i dream of designing new toolz ;o)

Jonathan Dicker

This looks like it'll be a cool series! I'm keen to see what you get up to in the 'Casting' video. My first job in the iron & steel industry was in a foundry that made big hard-wearing pumps for the mining industry by casting high-chrome white iron in sand moulds. Do you calculate shrinkage, figure out risers and gating?

Richard Foster

Very nice video. Like others, I'll be interested in seeing the rest of the series, especially the robotics in manufacturing one. I'm a Coach for a FIRST Tech Challenge Robotics team in Florida. One of our recently graduated team members had the chance to intern with a local company called RND Automation who makes custom manufacturing lines. It's very cool to see the potential for manufacturing returning to locations local to where the products in question are needed, rather than being produced thousands of miles away, often under inhumane conditions. (Destin, if you haven't already got content for the Robotics in manufacturing video and would like an introduction to the company, let me know and I'll happily do what I can to get you connected to the right people.)

Adam Kennedy

Awesome series, I have worked in sheet metal fabrication from stamping to painting for 11 years now. Cannot wait to se show you show off our industry and what you teach!

Greg

You never really explained that thumbnail in the video.

George Kelly

Great video. if you ever find yourself in Flint, Michigan, you might appreciate taking a tour of General Motors’ Flint Metal Center. It’s where they stamp the side panels of Silverado truck beds, and other smaller parts. The presses for the truck side panels are ENORMOUS. My father-in-law retired from there a while back. He took me on a tour one time. I remember seeing one of the class-C presses when I first walked in. I believe the class-C is the one about 20 seconds into this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=difNjF6pCZE. 3 stories tall and as big as a small house. I made a comment about how big it was and my father-in-law just laughed. He said “That’s the smallest press in the whole building. Wait until you see the class-AA presses”. I can’t find a video of the Class-AA’s but they are the size of probably 4 or 5 houses and they had to do a ton of foundation work under them to handle the forces of stamping the truck panels. Here’s a picture of the foundation work under the press. Everything in the picture is under the press. You can see the level of the plant floor in the top right of the picture: https://www.mlive.com/genesee-general-motors/2009/11/post_3.html. And they crank out, I forget the exact number, but something like one panel every few seconds. It’s worth a visit just to feel how the ground trembles every time the press hits.

Bobby H Sanderson

In the old days, we called it "shop class", but by whatever moniker it's called today time should be allotted to view videos like this. Backwater kids like I used to be need to know that these worlds exist and that they can be part of it! Thanks, Justin--great job!

Emil Janesten

Hello Destin. Thanks again for a good and interesting video about something I wasn't interested about at first, but still kept me hooked for an hour, because you make stuff interesting! I like watching the videos on your second channel aswell because of how interesting the things you show are. But I don't like when the second channel video is 66% main channel video with 33% being new content here and there, unless you let us clearly know in the beginning of the main video that there's an extended cut on 2nd channel which has this video plus more (so we can decide to just watch the extended version or the short). So either let us know beforehand that there's an extended version or just make the 2nd channel video be mostly new content that didn't make it to the first. And I wouldn't mind if this part is less well thought through during editing. it could basically be lots of "cut away parts" put together.

Toasty

Thanks a ton for making this video! I'm a journeyman tool and die maker at a facility that runs full scale production on automotive and aerospace braking components in Connecticut! It was incredible to see the work I do day in and day out be brought to such a large audience! If you ever find yourself in Connecticut let me know and we can show you how we do things here in the Connecticut River Valley, the birthplace of American metal stamping manufacturing!

Rick Corbitt

Kind of a modern, automated blacksmith working.

Adam Schindler

Something that Wes said at 55:00 stood out to me as perhaps the most important part of the whole video: "If you offshore this part, odds are it would be made by hand. We can add value by automating it here in the US." That's an enormous amount of economic wisdom in one phrase backed up by a practical example. Investment in workers allows them to produce more value which allows their wages to rise. Maybe that value cannot compete with extremely undervalued workers like East Asian in the 1980s and 1990s or Japan in the 1950-70s, but as those workers get the wages that they deserve, their competitive advantage (being undervalued and thus cheap) disappears. The margins that accrued to a relatively small subset of individuals and nations through globalization are ultimately dependent upon a perishable phenomenon, and that comparative advantage for developing market workers does NOT need to completely disappear for developed market workers to become competitive once again (due to the potentially higher investment in developed market workers. Anyway, not the point of the video, but it was an immensely important statement that could be easily overlooked but which may prove prophetic.

Cousin Vinnie

You mentioned emphasizing logic, teaching students how to think again, instead of just teaching skills. As a Phil and logic student in undergrad, I've always valued the ability to form a logically sound argument, as apposed to just making conclusions and letting myself off the hook of PROOVING those conclusions. What do you think we can do today for new generations to help them WANT to learn to think better and better use their intelligence? We're all smart, but thinking isn't always easy. Thanks as always!

Nicholas domingo

Thank you for making this! I am a younger cnc machinist and there are so few guys my age in this field. There definitely needs to be a bigger push for skilled trades!

Calvin

Another excellent video Destin, thank you! I really enjoy how thoughtfully and lovingly you walk us through worlds that not many folks get to see, especially people like me who are doing more white-collar work. Both the mechanisms and machines, and the people themselves doing the work. I'm aware it's a little touchy politically, and not the *direct* goal of this series, but I hope at some point you can talk about trade unions as they exist in the manufacturing world. A HUGE amount of the dignity and security that historically came with American manufacturing was driven by labor unions, and to this day they is a big reason that these jobs pay well, are stable, compensate for injuries, and generally provide some human dignity. Especially in the context of what Wes said, about creating value within the US rather than shunting it off to the cheapest global labor possible. Trade unions have done an enormous amount of good for raising the standard of living for folks everywhere, even outside the industry in question (for example, winning weekends off and 8-hour days), and I don't think the manufacturing industry can be understood fully without them.

Willow

Destin, I've been a long time fan and really deeply appreciate every video you've done. Maybe it's not worth the comment, but your statement at the beginning of the video about 'getting back to the humanities' is out of place. It could be that you're using the word in the 'classical' sense, but the vernacular 'humanities' are at fault for producing the situation you hope to remedy with these videos. These videos are about showing the empowerment, joy, and meaning that can result from things like working in manufacturing which are thought to be mundane and uninspiring. The humanities (what you'll learn at college studying) are largely a subversion of much STEM related progress. As an overeducated BS and current STEM PhD candidate, I want to see more technologically capable people that have an understanding and appreciation for rhetoric and philosophy. Especially in light of the acceleration of tech development today, we need to shift the distribution of the workforce into STEM and healthcare. Maybe we're saying the same things, I'm just more likely to complain about it.

Rasmus Sehlin

Dude, this video was amazing. Really looking forward to this manufacturing series!

Tall Steve

What a great video! I knew such machines existed, but couldn't picture how they work until I saw your vid! Very cool!

James March

Outstanding video — only wish my father-in-law were still here to watch it. He was an industrial designer and worked in manufacturing for over 50 years. During the pandemic, we bought him a tablet and I got him watching your videos — loved the tour of the rocket factory! Unfortunately, he passed in the summer of 2021. Sad that he spent the last year of his life locked indoors. Your videos were a bright spot in every conversation I had with him that last year. Thank you!

Greyson Gillett

So excited for this series! I was into the "How It's Made" show when I was a kid, now I get to dive deeper with an intelligent engineer asking the right questions! If it is possible, it would be amazing if you could record binaural audio for the Sound Traveler channel when you visit these factories, I would love to feel like I was there after learning about what is going on.

Evan Jones

I work doing process tool install and demolition at Intel out in Oregon. I think it's a pretty interesting process, if you're ever interested in seeing how the silicon sausage is made let know and I'll get you in touch with the people who can make that happen.

Evan Jones

Oh and also glad to see anydesk doing well. They were my first big corporate purchase when I had my own IT company (before I got wise and went into the trades). Phenomenal software.