Mad in USA this looks good. ..... as a Full time Supply Chain/Buillder and a "QUALIFY SUPPLIER" (including Customer Suervices.), We Builder needs Material/Qality Control and Approve Vendor List.

Made in China...is made in China😅😅😅😅😅😅😅 jezzzzz

Yessss...very critical hole😅😅😅😅😅😅 I cant stop laughing....complicated ..super complex.Primitive work.

Xometry is like driving Uber or anything else in the gig-industry. If it is your only business plan you`ll be hurting, if it`s to supplement your main income you can make some beer money.

I like the way you were able to level both sides of the log in one jig without having to reposition the log. Question though, how would you set up your level/jig if your log has a slight taper on all sides? My guess is do the best you can and that's what I'll do... I'm a metal worker by trade, not a wood worker.

Good video, terrible subject. But that's just one opinion

Super informative, thank you!

What are the dimensions of the part?

Do you know if you have to have CNC equipment or do they offer jobs for manual machines?

Thankfully my own parts took off right after my test part was approved, and I never did any work for them.

Hey @PowerForgeWorkshop , a question on your Nexjen. Are you using the float inside of your coolant tank? All that's visible is the hose going down inside the hole in the enclosed top of the tank. Were you able to put the float inside, or are you just sucking the coolant from the hose going down inside? Thanks

Any idea what kinda of paint they used on the underside of the table on these old saws?

Keep your head up. it sounds like you know what you're doing.

Great little project ...honestly the wobbly one would bother me lol If you were feeling really creative you could put a ring on the bottom end of handles and have an extra balanced weight to the wheel and no way of banging your head as the vertical rods come round.....maybe. I love my flypress but I only just got it on the stand and a roof on my workshop and I have to move again (I even had my forge set up with chimney and just grrr!!!!...you do not want to hear the bad words everytime I even think about that looking forward to seeing your upcoming videos. And happy new year

My old job had a customer reject 1 box of parts out of 12 boxes 3 times. Personally it looked like they were testing a new product and didn't want to pay for it so they'd swap a box of used parts out and reject them for being "received damaged". To test it we marked the 2nd box of parts before anodizing and magically the day they received those parts they reported them "damaged/bad quality". When they shipped them back for us to "fix" the parts we got were none of the ones they rejected from the 2nd batch but were also obviously installed/used they had from the initial batch. Anyways xometry sided with them on the 3rd time, refunded their money, and sent us back all the "unused" parts we made plus kicked us from xometry telling us to redo the application process in 6 months. Each and every one of the parts we got back had been used by them and we lost a ton of money on that job.

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How ling that take to make

Bro, totally great video and lathe work. Wondering if you might make one more so all three handles have the same tight thread. Merry Christmas.

Merry Christmas from across the ocean, Garon. Glad you had a great Christmas, I too had zero wrapping paper to clean up this year. Love your shop videos and your knowledge base, I feel smarter just for watching your channel. Happy 2025 too.

Thank you for sharing your experience.

Interesting adventure you had with your part and xometry. I hope you find jobs from them. I have nothing to do with xometry as i am in germany but still nice to know the steps you had to go through. Did you use the reamer on the final part or and endmill for those holes? At my workplace we always use endmills for precision holes unless they are too deep.

Тот случай, когда излишний перфекционизм увеличил время изготовления подставки в 5 раз.

How is the flatness of the plate when it's bolted to the table (assuming the table of the Syil is flat)? Lang baseplates are ground with an intentional bow of about .003" so that when it is bolted down to your table, the edges are pressed down and the whole plate makes intimate contact. Does silver CNC's plate also have this detail?

It should be obvious to everybody that Xometry is a bunch of clowns. Every job you break even or lose money on is a win for them. They just use you to keep going forward while you slowly sink. They seek out low overhead and garage shops to take advantage of them and they make everyone take a test because they can't find skilled professionals to work that cheap!

How to choose the die height ?

I tried making their test part knowing it wasn’t a profitable venture but enough to keep spindles turning while we built up our client list. My part (lathe) was rejected because there are two tiny chamfered and two tiny radiuses that I could not measure and they were .0002 out of spec. Which ones tho? After 6 months of calls and emails I said to hell with their BS, If I can’t talk to a person about the test piece what happens when I get a part(s) rejected??? The only good suggestion I have heard thus far is if you are shipping direct to the customer put a business card in the box and often they will give you repeat jobs at full price.

I wish you luck mate and thanks for sharing your experience

Xometry is a waste of time as they use shops that are happy to just break even on a job to keep the lights on in slow periods. You can never compete

Wanted to jump in on our experience. I think we took our first job in 17 or 18. Xometry is a boot camp of sorts, we hustled hard to get going as a new shop and they were an instant opportunity to get parts through the shop. Their system is pretty dialed and it all makes sense when you get to a certain point. They honestly helped us get through the very early startup phase. We are still partners and dabble in the job board when time allows. The banners are proudly displayed throughout our shop and we owe the platform its due credit.

Seems like a much simpler part than when I onboarded circa 2019? Mine was a stainless 303 part with a lot more going on.

I became an xometry partner about 1.5 years ago. I never took a job from the job board. They were so cheap it wasn’t worth it.

You have more than 60 days. It's a recommendation. I'm currently going through the process and I'm on my first job. They work with you and if you need help then reach out to them.

I'm a Xometry partner and have been since 2022. Done $65k worth of jobs so far. I've found some winners on there. Most seem to be filler work if I need to find some work. The premium tier is where you want to go, as I work with other Xometry partners and see the work they get, and it is really good paying work. They definitely can have challenging parts on the Job board, but only take what you can do and what works for your shop. With your QMS, don't over complicate it, make it work for your shop, as you grow it will be helpful if your QMS can grow with your shop.

What oil do you use for heat treating?

You're wind chime pendulum made me laugh... Oh, and in response to "I don't have a CNC lathe... Yes you do.... kzbin.info3VfxsCzzlVI I enjoyed your video... Good luck getting more and more work.

pro tip- they use an algorithm that figures out what jobs you'll take and if you take the cheap ones that's all they'll give you options to bid on. they have their favorite machine shops that get all the good jobs where you can actually make some money. pretty scammy.

dang, they made on boarding with xometry a lot more intense. I started with xometry back in 2018 and it was just make a simple part out of 6061 with tolerances of plus or minus 0.005". I alsi agree that 95% of the jobs on Xometry seem to either need a lathe, 5 axis or EDM, plus some sort of finishing I can't get around me. Xometry was my only customer for the first 4 years so I can't complain, they helped me start my shop.

If i need a cnc part and check xometry they are always way more expensive then China, makes no sense for me..

bottom race

Just stumbled across your video. Did that same test part spring of this year. I was slightly off on the 32 finish (34 measured if I remember correctly) but still passed the part. It's interesting to me what they can be picky about and what they let go. Done a handful of jobs, but the simple ones go quick. Virtually no margin so far. I am self taught, so I use it as an opportunity to self educate.

Thank you for your service and your videos

Thanks for the video. I just started onboarding with Xometry. I'm going to start the test part this weekend. Sharing your experience with the test part and onboarding was very helpful. Now I have a better idea wha to expect with the process. Subscribed!

Thank you for making this video. Subscribed.

Turn it 90 degrees and profile it.

First 15 jobs are pure profit for Xometry. They do expect you to "use up" ie. give away "old" stock on the shelf. They tell you not to lose money, but you'll be waiting a long time to find something profitable. Not entirely their fault, you have an unknown number of shops rushing to get to premium at any cost(loss). I finished 12th job 5+ weeks ago and haven't seen much worth doing since. Or, it's gone before I can check material and tooling to get it done by the deadline. I think better jobs weren't taken by anyone and fed back into the system. It doesn't help that they don't tell you the first day that you can feedback price with your offer. In a tech hour I asked how to get better offers. Become premium. One of the shops said they didn't make money with Xometry in the first 40 jobs. Some people get lucky or are willing to take risk others aren't. They do say jobs are not offered based on the equipment you have. CNC includes any size turn, mill, edm, swiss. I'm sure there is the possibility of making money. My first job (I took at offer price) came back as a repeat at almost three times what they offered the first time. They don't quote anything near the lowball offers they post. You never know what the job actually paid to whoever took it.

I have yet to meet some one who actually is successful in making money with them. If I heard some positive stories I might give it a try. More or less, it seems 50/50 out there when searching around meaning 50 percent say it's OK when your slow, and the other half say cant buy the material for what they are going to pay for the entire job.

So would you recommend xometry to someone new with limited equipment or tell them to steer clear? Im looking at as I too have alot of down time for my machine but it seems like the onboarding process is pretty competitive when trying to get the first few jobs after the test part, Can you communicate with the customers at all and ask for clarification after taking jobs, you were talking about some parts with square corners or what seem to be design oversites for manufacturing, but there are people submitting parts to be made that aren't certified engineers or haven't tried to make parts before and dont understand some common practices to make parts actually feasible or machinable. Would it be worth it to take some of the more difficult jobs just to make it through the onboarding process, so you can have accesses to a different kind of customer/ more job opportunities based on partnership level?

I passed the test almost two years ago and yet to have accepted a job from them. Their pay offerings are absolutely insulting. Many times the cost of the material is more expensive than what they are offering for that particular job. In my opinion I see where xometry would be good for a shop that has a lull in work to keep their employees busy keeping the spindles running. Other than that I am not going to go go backwards to work for peanuts or in this case peanut shells.

As a person who bought parts from xometry, I was not impressed, they only used. Cad file and not the print with dimensions. Some dimensions on class 3 threads are tighter than their standard +- .005. Also on bores or on OD’s of pistons . Nothing would fit together and callouts of 32RMS the actual parts were over 125RMS. Basically useless.

I went through the xometry onboarding at the end of '23 and my experience was pretty similar. I had the same issue with them sending jobs I didn't have the equipment for. I had only signed up for 3-axis mill and was seeing lathe work, sheet metal cutting, and 5-axis profiles. The few jobs I had the equipment for were way too complex or made of some crazy material and I couldn't have completed them in time. I spent a few days checking the site every hour or two, then tapered off and gave up after a month of not finding any jobs worth taking. The pay for the jobs I saw wasn't nearly good enough to make up for the hours and hours I'd have to spend checking the site.