Area 419 Shop Tour! AMAZING Story & CNC Machines!

Touring Area 419 for the second time! The last time we visited was over one year ago and I was inspired by what Jon Addis, Founder and CEO, was able to accomplish in their small garage shop. It was packed to the brim with Haas CNC lathes, CNC mills, and passion to provide high quality, precision rifle products.
Since then, Area 419 has grown and the story is incredible. Jon gives us a great tour--showing their DMG Mori, Grob CNC and Haas CNC machines. We'll also get to hear more about how Jon makes decisions in terms of allocating resources, buying machines, building reliable processes, and the experience of building their new shop.
Area 419 started with someone passionate about rifles but unable to afford sending them out for work. He picked up an old lathe and the rest is history! We can't wait to see what's in store for this amazing company!
00:00 Introducing Jon Addis, Founder & CEO of AREA 419
00:59 Old Shop Vs. New Shop
05:44 Haas DMG NTX 1000 Mill Turn, Haas DS-30Y, Haas ST-20Y
20:00 Chip Bins/Hoppers & Scrap Disposal, Full Flake Epoxy Floor, Capto Static Stools Vs. Stick Tools
25:15 DMG NLX 2500| 700, LNS Servo 80 S2 Bar Feeder
32:32 ChipBLASTER High Pressure Coolant System + MistBLASTER
34:12 From Technician to Entrepreneur: Hiring Employees
36:34 Haas UMC - 500ss
41:05 CAT 40 Vs. HSK Spindle
44:31 DMG CMX 1100V & 3D Printed Support for Fixturing
46:53 Ingersoll-Rand Torque Driver
48:39 Haas VF-2ss & Tombstone Fixturing
52:29 Gunsmithing Cage & Community Connection
55:43 Haas DT-1
58:31 DMG NHX 5000 + RPS 5 Pallet Pool System, Thermal Stability, Repeatability, Modular Tombstone, ZERO Reloading Press Mounting Plate & Additional Parts
01:11:00 DMG NHX 5000 Tool Changer
01:12:13 Coolant Dispensing System
01:17:24 Crates for Shipping Products to Anodizing
01:19:04 Grob G350 - Machining The ZERO Reloading Press Body
01:27:20 Storage Racking & Shop Aesthetics
01:30:11 Tool Crib/QC, HAIMER Shrink Fit
01:31:26 Offices, Conference Area, Kitchen/Lunch Area & More
01:43:51 Final Thoughts & Thanks
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Links for this video
Website: www.area419.com/
IG: / area419official
Twitch Livestream CNC Machining: / area419
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Reach us / CNC Info:
Speeds & Feeds: provencut.com
Download Fusion 360: www.dpbolvw.net/click-9255839...
Online Fusion 360 Training: bit.ly/LearnFusion360
SMW Products: saundersmachineworks.com/
CNC Resources: www.nyccnc.com 5 Reasons to Use a Fixture Plate on Your CNC Machine: bit.ly/3sNA4uH

[@area419]

We're here!

[@nyccnc]

turn around. wrong place. ;)

[@area419]

@@nyccnc Instructions unclear, watching old Grimsmo videos

[@POTMODELUXE]

Thats a real nice space you got but you really need some art on the walls. They look all empty.

[@area419]

@@POTMODELUXE we moved into the space a couple weeks ago, I think the video makes fairly clear we are going to make everything look nice

[@POTMODELUXE]

@@area419 yeah looking forward to see it! Great job!

[@poetac15]

Rewatching this two years later

[@epop3014]

John, This is one of the better, more informative and insightful videos you've done. This doesn't seem like a commercial for a company, product or machine. Thank you.

[@yianni3251]

John like never makes videos like that. At least comparing him to Titan’s of CNC he surely doesn’t.

[@DieselCrawler86]

God I want to work there just for the lunch room, it is indeed one of the most overlooked things and shop.

[@LoudandProudBSE]

WOOT. Watch the channel all the time and then i see Area419 on here, nice! MDPRS representing.

[@jesusr7412]

Awesome vid! And shoutout to Julie for the timestamps they’re super useful

[@stonecraft745]

Nice haircut John, makes you look way younger! Can't wait for the release!

[@kyzitemelos]

Nah that guy on the Mori takes the cake for haircuts. When a man has a Mullet you know he's not to be messed with!

[@weldmachine]

Loved the extra long video. It gave us time to be more envious of this excellent shop. Great to see manufacturing well and truly alive. Really appreciate the time you take to do these shop tours. Thanks John.

[@FLPMOD1]

on stand by !! gonna have my small team of 4 watch this ! the first video was a huge inspiration

[@wrighty338]

This was incredible - i remember watching his first shop tour and wow Jon has come a long way. What an amazing shop and growth of his business. Very well thought out. I am surprised he does not have any robots on repeatable work. Thank you for another amazing tour - very inspirational to people starting out.

[@area419]

That'll be remedied when John comes back next year ;)

[@carsonberger4308]

Amazing tour, one of the best I have seen on this channel

[@LarrysMachineShop]

Amazing, incredible, both Jon and John rock. Jon Addis has a very calm and confident way about him. Great company

[@ltborg]

So good I had to like it from all my accounts. Great work John! Please keep up your coverage of these guys. Big thanks to Area 419 and Jon for allowing such an open and transparent tour. It’s hugely inspirational to us little guys still working to get to that level.

[@earendall]

Fantastic shop. That is my lifelong dream to have a shop like that.

[@465maltbie]

Wow, quite the change from not that long ago, thank you for being so generous with your time to do this tour. Some of your comments about what was working and what isnt was also very useful. Charles

[@artmckay6704]

Wow! Amazing shop! I'm so glad that the owner is doing everything in-house instead of outsourcing! Keeping people employed! Thanks for doing this video! :)

[@richhuntsd12]

Fantastic Video. I watched every minute. Jon has obviously got it together. Looks like he has really gone the extra mile on just about everything. Very nice job by your crew as well John. Thank You for the inspiration.

[@JS-cs8gz]

Great video John!! And much respect to Jon Addis on design/flow of new building..........not mention the machine envy I'm experiencing.

[@moonryder203]

I would be very happy working here, the owner 's attention to detail and the thought of employee moral earns him much respect. Many shop owners get stuck in the past and forget to modernize because they think it's stupid or unnecessary and wonder why nobody wants to work for them. Great video tour!

[@jasonquade9284]

Before you buy a chip briqueter, try just rinsing your chips. We've been doing this on a smaller scale with pretty good results. A 55 gallon drum of "dry" chips will yield 5 gallons of coolant at ~7% concentration. A second five gallons comes out at about half that. Just dump clean water on the top of the barrel and your coolant can come out a hole in the bottom. The results vary with what your chips look like, basically the the yield goes up with smaller chips. This has cut our coolant consumption by roughly 1/3" and it didn't take any investment in machinery, plus it keeps all that coolant in our shop where we can use it and out of the scrap yard's dirt lot.

[@rdc02271]

Do you have any pictures? Thank you

[@yosmith1]

It took me a while to get to this video, John, but no disappointment. This shop is doing amazing work.

[@claudiugalea3038]

Really excited to see this shop tour!

[@codygibson2809]

How is this comment from 2 days ago when it only went live 7 hours ago lol

[@cre8itgroup903]

Amazing shop and thanks for sharing ideas. We are a small shop of 2 guys and 2 spindles making great parts.

[@keithmcelhinney6993]

Nice to see some love for the DT-1. Have one in my garage shop and is smaller than my previous hobby mill. Scary when you first see the table flying around!

[@greener121]

Just WOW!!!

[@Machinedconcepts]

shop goals!

[@richardcary5751]

Great tour. WOW!!!

[@EZ_shop]

Awesome tour. Incredible facility. Ciao, Marco.

[@aamaya13]

You can tell the respect & admiration. This is wonderful & honest. Thank You

[@brycejeannotte7699]

Great tour. So interesting listening to you two chatting.

[@nikolaiownz]

What an awesome shop. And an awesome dude. This is a big inspiration 👍

[@wrighty338]

Holy moly only 36mins in i need a cup of tea this is great

[@henrikwessberg5904]

Best Shop tour ever!

[@rigcustoms5994]

This is so cool!! What an amazing shop , I really wish automation , and cnc machining and manufacturing was more common in my country , I would love to work in a shop like this.

[@motionsick]

These shop tour videos are great. Thanks for making them.

[@bonyobondov4364]

Amazing shop tour. The area ,the machines and the joy of doing what love is awesome.

[@sethhughes2163]

Wow... I watched and sent the file I recorded from your first cnc/NYC video. That blew me into getting started w/cnc. When I saw this I was so pumped up for you it actually got a little emotional... I am so inspired by your story Jon, thank you for taking the time and being so giving to us trying to climb up the ladder! KUDO'S brother!!! Best regards, Seth

[@carsonberger4308]

Cant wait

[@AnthonyGriz]

Yet another inspiring shop tour! Loved it !!!

[@markissboi3583]

when everything is d/checked and efficiently organized not much goes wrong You dont need Art on walls to look at - The machines are a work of Art :)

[@Peter-V_00]

Where do you start, very well done tour of an obviously well thought out operation, the icing on the cake was the comment "make it a place you want to work", no truer words have ever been spoken.

[@colereds]

Got to check out this shop recently as a cutting tool supplier. Very impressive! Cleanest I've seen in a while

[@silentriotmwi]

My God! This is an awesome shop.. Ney! Factory!

[@drubradley8821]

That water system at the end of the video is amazing and cleanly set up/installed. That may sound silly to compliment AREA-419's water system, but water in the USA is something we all take for granted, and I once had a water issue, and was chewing up all sorts of things, including the plumbing itself, until I got a specialist or rather, a team of specialist's out where I am at. Have water too clean or pure, sound good, but, with out getting into covalent bonding, as if we are back in high school, too clean of water, is exceptionally rough on anything and everything the water is in contact with, even plastics type plumbing, let alone alloy type plumbing. So, if you are unsure, get educated, and or bring in a water testing group and get yours tested. A sprung leak in a copper pipe at Friday night at 8:30 PM after everybody has left for the day, only to return in two days on a Monday, to see that a bazillion gallons of water has filled the complex with a standing 3 inches of water. Please don't ask the cost of the water bill that following month. All from super clean water that demanded a few trillion trillion free electrons from from the copper piping. On a more positive note, I will soon be ordering one of these presses. Not that I need another loading presses, but, these AREA-419 presses are just clever and of course, sexy. I need to figure out a way to convince the wife why 8 presses is not enough, or how this unit is different and more accurate then the others ,which it is, but, I don't think she cares, LOL.. Just kidding, I don't need permission to get one of these, just don't mention that I got one to her, and problem solved.... I think I can use the same ole rebuttal as always, where I mention, how many $2500 purses she needs or $1500 silly looking pairs of shoes she has in a walk in closet that only holds her shoes and purses, as if you are walking into a bank vault or the hidden control rooms at the Smithsonian's restoration lab.. All for stupid shoes and purses.. See, I am getting scared of my wife, that I am building up the game plan already of how to handle this ... LOL.. All jokes aside, I will soon be getting one of these presses. I so look forwards to using this model, I like how open it is. That doesn't mean the other types of presses are bad or not gonna get used, Nah, I just want one, is all.. Thank you for the time and effort put into making this video happen. AREA-419 makes allot of really neat stuff. You all should check out their website, even if you are not a reloader/loader, you never know, you may just decide, that the aluminum funnel will be fitting for something you are doing, not related to am mo reloading/loading among other items they manufacture in house. Thank you.

[@urbanwillis2212]

Still have a Bridgeport and manual lathe... I love it !

[@evanlacava9213]

Love the growth keep it up guys 🇺🇸 💪🏻

[@shadowlab9543]

thanks john i needed this video !!!!

[@James-fs4rn]

👍 I'm blown away at thoughtful organization. I can't seem to get my two bay garage sorted out let alone a shop like that!

[@hisfantor]

jost watched the two videos back to back, crazy how fast he is growing his company

[@delas7389]

Great detail on this video. Love it

[@MadManMachines]

Awesome shop!

[@policebox1092]

Amazing machine shop

[@ceasardr7312]

love ur tours man

[@TomChame]

Very interesting, thanks.

[@BlueOceanDesigns]

Somehow he reminds me of Jay Pierson but it is epic to see someone grow from very little/small to this.

[@Desertmoto]

John I’d love to see more of your Datron Neo! Love your content! You do so much for the community!

[@Ale_Lab]

I think he had it for a short time time make the "prooven cuts" and then the machine goes somewhere else. As far as I remeber that was a machine moving between shops. You could see if from all the stickers it had :-) If he got another one, then I missed that

[@astbrnrd]

An awesome interview 😊 Kudos to both 👍

[@qzwqsy]

Awesome!

[@dannybartlett4225]

Wicked little shop i get the feeling he will be doubleling the size of that workshop in the next 24 months good work 💪👷

[@venomdefense316]

SHOP GOALZZZZZZZZZ!!!! 😲

[@senorimotor]

Wow! This is a great video.

[@bouncebak6924]

Definitely my shop goals someday.

[@sscadcam]

Great tour! Beautiful shop! I'd do the same with my pallet racking too... kinda like my skyhooks ;)

[@_domlnlk_]

really nice shop :-)

[@xtiz]

Amazing shop ! =)

[@shadowlab9543]

sweeeet !!! iv been watching them put the shop together on the gram

[@NewHartfordLocals]

Awesome shop! I hope one day I can upgrade to a facility like this!

[@elliotstokes6134]

Amazing video!!!

[@TheRlovett]

Jon Addis is a very calm, cool and collected guy. Excellent tour, thanks Saunders and team!

[@yianni3251]

That muzzle break that was being shown around 8:00 looks like the exact one that’s made at the shop I work at.

[@jimc4731]

I am retired from 50 years of shop ownership. I find it interesting that the same weak link of the chain syndrome is still affecting how the shop runs. You go from tool wear to chip removal to part removal to temperature control and inspection. One of those will always be controlling production. Be proud of your achievement! Just sayin, JIM

[@jimhimesjr]

Cool shop! Funny seeing this beautiful, quiet DMG MORI with loud Haas lathes screaming in the background. Decent machines but they are so dang loud

[@mjoconr]

The DMG's use a analog proximity which is monitoring a long triangle attached to the chuck drawbar or equivalent.

[@mattsnow4116]

Grob’s are so cool

[@justinwilliams5925]

I’ve done a bit of technician work on Grob G750’s they’re huge and awesome!!

[@norahung588]

Great

[@jerrytong6395]

Please pressure this man into making a lever operated Atlas Arcalok clamp, much appreciated.

[@kisspeteristvan]

Absolutely amazing , i'd love to have the opportunity to rough such volumes . I could never achieve something like that at my last workplace , even tough i had the machine , i've never had the proper work for it .

[@Steelcrafted]

Excited to see it, but the youtube premier feature is lame....

[@peterloewen738gmail]

@10:12 through chuck coolant!!! 😄

[@kientrung3350]

amazing my dream is works here

[@hk93shooter]

your zero press is a work of art. wow.

[@WesternSpringMfg]

Great shop! Thanks for the tour. What are the details on your offices white noise system? We have the same polished concrete floors and acoustics is an issue.

[@j.dietrich]

Late to the table here, but the discussion of the DT-1 at 55:43 was hugely insightful. Acceleration isn't one of the headline specs for a machine tool, but it clearly has a huge impact on cycle times. Got me thinking about why Fanuc Robodrill owners seem to keep buying them again and again.

[@urbanwillis2212]

Man have we come a long way in production machining with tool deflection being the biggest, baddest problem possible in 1968. I remember when they used a Fosdick tape NC to check the work of Pratt and Whitney Tape-O-Matics three axis drilling machines in an aircraft tooling shop. Just kids being kids back then. One hold-down clamp in the way of the tool and wiping the table clean. The 1959-60 technology was nothing compared to today. In those days the tape operated machines were little more than manual machines without the accuracy of trough mikes to measure distances and no where near accurate with the tape breaking and getting wet with coolant. The Fosdicks were guaranteed 0.0001 end of table to end of table, but who was the judge if the tolerance was met. LOL!

[@Rimrock300]

Impressive shop, looks to be some huge investments done, ten million+. Looking at their webshop and products I at first glance can't figure out how those relative few and small products can defend the investments, but they must sell a large numbers of each item, and/or they might do general custom jobs not shown in the video. I do not doubt the gentleman is fully on top of things. Impressive being able setting up such a shop in the US today, with all the competition from overseas/Asia. Interesting tour, well done, best of luck.

[@wbullock]

I can’t believe this was a year ago!

[@nameberry220]

That was inspiring, thanks for sharing. Would it be possible to go over costs on tours like this? For example, building costs, machine costs, etc. Grand Designs always concludes with asking those questions.

[@jimc4731]

Sounded like a coolant cooler would be appropriate in their shop. JIM

[@85CEKR]

Thats a very impressive shop. We have an NLX in our shop too, for the type of production you I wouldn't recommend thise though. They are very slow in production compared to say a nakamura or Okuma, and you don't loose any rigidity or accuracy with thise two machines compared to the NLX's just as an example we had a job that we ran on our Mori and Okuma at the same time, we used the exact same tooling feed rates and everything, the Mori was 1:20 and our Okuma was 0:56 that really adds up over time.

[@JayDee28]

I see a Grob or a DMG in the SMW future. I know it bothers you that you don’t have one of those.

[@tiffanybryson6575]

I can certainly help you with all things GROB!

[@85CEKR]

Go grob

[@phillipmillay8645]

Caron Engineering's DTECT IT Vibration Sensor can fault the machine if a .003 chip is behind the HSK flange, to prevent scrap.

[@weyers17]

Damn. I wanna work for that guy

[@joehackenberg30]

Love the shop tours keep up the great work . do kind of wish the camera man would zoom in sometime on certain things more. but that just a very small constructive criticism. could just be me though to.

[@capnthepeafarmer]

Amazing tour! The thing that blows my mind away is that people are buying these products, like, I guess I just don't get it but just loading ammunition has helped finance all this stuff. Great success story! It would have been nice to see what these products do, for people like myself it isn't totally clear or obvious what these things do.

[@yianni3251]

What do you mean by “see what these products do?” Do you mean the machines or the parts they’re making?

[@nameberry220]

@@yianni3251 Seems obvious he is talking about the products they're making, i.e the zero. I had the same question and found it well answered by looking at their website and youtube channel. Wild guess, the zero might bring in around 20 million in revenue, that's only 16,667 units.

[@faisal8793]

High tech machine dmg Mori

[@stick004]

Who else subbed to this channel to see Johnny 5 get built? WTF happen to that? We need a Johnny update!

[@nyccnc]

J5 is back on! Update video coming may/june

[@Th3mast3r69]

the shop machinists dream of.

[@steinarne79]

Heh.... using a tombstone... horizontal... in between a main and sub spindle of a millturn... you can get some nice flexibility in something that predominantly do round bar all day long...

[@bsammo5205]

Does your 500 throw tools against the side of the machine during a tool change?