Machine CRASH and Spindle Destroyed..How did this happen??

[@meadball1]

I really wish the last shop I worked at made me fix my mistakes. It was not a shop that supported people or allowed people to learn. Every good machinist I've ever talked to has a story about crashing a machine! We're human. We make mistakes. Learning from those mistakes is the best thing we can do! I got to my new job this past March and it's a totally different environment! I've been learning all things I've been wanting to learn!

[@donniehinske]

That’s the most important thing I can tell you to do. Even if you don’t like where you work it doesn’t matter if you are learning. Learn as much as you can as FAST as you can and you will be blown away with where this career can take you in a few short years.

[@Tankliker]

Tbh, the rule that you learn through your mistakes is true for basically any job. I have nothing to do with CNC lol. I mostly do welding and smithing at my current job but by boss literally does not allow me to just fix my mistakes on my own if he sees them, it's like if I am proofenly unable to so in his eyes. A single mistakes basically guarantee a 30min long talk (mostly Monologe from his side) and then he will literally fix it his way be it right or wrong and I can just stand there for up to an hour doing nothing lol. Learned nothing and after 2y I am literally unable to hear him talking after 2min if it's not important from start to finish. Also questions are not allowed. A question is a mistake in itself, you didn't got it the first time and I maybe didn't even tell you it? Though luck I guess.

[@meadball1]

@@Tankliker Yeah I feel you about that. A work place that doesn't allow you to be human is a prison. A mistake every once in while should be expected and learned from. Granted if mistakes happen all the time, you might want to check yourself... but if you're just in a toxin work environment... that really doesn't help either. When someone made a mistake at my first machine shop job, they would make you feel guilty that someone else had to fix your parts, if they were fixable. I remember asking my manager one time if I could fix the batch of parts I made out of spec. He said, "No you've already screwed up enough." That was the turning point for that job. It was one of those "don't ask questions, do as you're told" kind of machine shops. So glad I don't work there any more!

[@meadball1]

@@donniehinske Absolutely! I can't say I liked my first machine shop job, but I definitely learned a lot even if the only thing managment wanted were button pushers. A few chosen people knew CNC programming and the rest were peons. The people that had been working there (other peons like me) showed me so much and took time out of their day to teach me something even if my managers only saw me as a button pusher. The experience that I got from that job landed me another better job that is helping me learn Mastercam, CNC programming, and things that the higher ups at my last job didn't want to teach me because, God forbid, they loose their power and standing in the company! Sorry. I have a real high opinion of my last job LOL

[@willh3972]

@@Tankliker some people think this is what it means to be "old school" and "hardcore" or whatever, anyone in the old school who was like that didn't go anywhere or do anything either. Its a "not my job" mentality not from focus and patience but immaturity and selfishness.

[@tescubed]

I remember the Haas Mini Mill that my (UK) college (below uni level) got stuck doing a tool change. I ran the recovery program and it bent the half inch thick steel plate that holds the tools. Completely took the machine out of action. We had a new workshop technician who didn't know how to use a CNC, but had some incredible experience. Instead of calling in Haas to fix the machine. The both of us took the too changer from the second mill we had and sawpped them. Then bent the plate back and put it in the secondary machine where it was good enough and wouldn't see as much use. I'm super grateful to him for forcing me to fix it rather than costing the college a lot of money. Learned some incredible and invaluable skills that week

[@CulturedGrug90]

Making mistakes as much as they suck at the time, in my opinion provide the most instant learning curve. The first thing i remember when setting up is the mistakes ive made in the past. Mistakes keep you on the ball and stop you getting complacent

[@justlucky8254]

Those mistakes always end up so ingrained in my thought process that they've definitely prevented me from repeating them or worse.

[@GrumpyMachinist]

Enjoyed the video. Been there, done that. It was my wife's 2 uncles, instead of my Dad. I've went round and round with them many times over the years but every time we got over whatever we were arguing about I told them I wouldn't be shit without them. Because of them I can do all things CNC. I can quote, program(long hand too), setup lathes, mills, and swiss. I'll never have to worry about a job. I owe them so much.

[@D3kKromb0x]

You don't just have to learn from your own mistakes, you can also learn from the mistakes of others. I've been around a shop long enough to see some pretty bad crashes, and every time we go over the root causes, how to avoid it happening again, etc. I think it is valuable to get everyone involved in every significant crash or incident not to shame the person that did it but to share the knowledge about what happened in the hopes that everyone will be able to avoid something similar in the future. I think I've been able to avoid a lot of bumps and crashes just based off of seeing and understanding the mistakes other people have made.

[@justlucky8254]

I like it when shops handle crashes or accidents in the way you described. I've learned a lot of lessons from incidents that other guys had, and I've taught a few lessons to a lot of others due to my own mistakes and screwups. If nothing else, something valuable can be learned from pretty much any issue like those.👍

[@Baby_J1]

I’ve been a CNC Lathe Machinist for 2 years now. I started as a shop hand, foreman was leaving, so I got a week of training before he left. I’m now foreman because of my work ethic and drive to learn. I’ve crashed my machine 2-3 times, but always learned from the mistakes. I’ve had to learn how to write programs from trial and error, didn’t really have someone to teach me

[@Dillybar777]

Jesus nobody should be crashing that often bro ypu should be sweeping the floors

[@Baby_J1]

@@Dillybar777 I said “crashed” a machine. I’ve bumped tools into parts and just had to re-teach the tools, that’s it. Never had to restart the machine or buy new tools. I only had a week of hands on training, then my foreman left me for the wolves. I’m now foreman and have the highest quality tools out of my whole shop. I did my share of sweeping floors, I’ll be happy to go back to sweeping floors, cause I’ll at least have a job still. I didn’t make it to where I’m at by being perfect. I made it to where I’m at by learning from my mistakes and others’ mistakes. Plus, starting out as a shop hand and working my way up to shop foreman within 3.5 years at a company AND doubling my pay rate AND only being 22 years old now, says a lot about my work ethic and character Edit: Just needed to add something else…put some mufudgin respect on my name buster

[@matthewharr6372]

New guy crashed our machine but it wasn't his fault. Head machinist wrote a program on my machine and took it over to his machine. My machine has tools in slots x,y,z, new guy's machine has tools in slots w,x,y. Called for a tool that wasn't in the same spot on new guy's machine. BAM. New guy learned to watch closely and ease the turret in, especially on a new program. Lead machinist learned to double check his work. Crashes are scary and expensive but thankfully everyone at my shop knows this so boss didn't lose his cool. They replaced the broken tool, fixed the code, and got back running the next morning.

[@kevinsmith3359]

Titan watch out. This guy is gold in front of the camera.

[@Magushko]

I've done a mistake two weeks ago. We use a template header in the beginning of each operation. But sometimes I have to use a CAM system whose postprocessor spreads important words (such a G43 H... and D) across the different frames and I have to adjust this code manually to the our standard header. For manual coding I use CIMCO Edit. And It can highlight frames/words by different colours according codes. So, when I was correcting the postprocessor code, I didn't notice that there was a combination G43 H00 (consider the same as G49) in the line with the first cutting movement, because it was all highlighted in green 🤡 Naturally, the tool flew into the machine table. I was so depressed that I thought about quitting. The boss calmed me down, said that people tend to make mistakes, especially beginners (I work as CNC programmer for 6 months). But here the price of mistake can be very high, so the "lesson" should be extracted to the maximum.

[@donniehinske]

Honestly dude for six months that’s very well informed! Wait until you hear more of my crash stories. It’s unfortunately how we learn. It’s good you felt bad about it but I really recommend just learning from it. Apologize and move forward. No one can ask for more.

[@Magushko]

@@donniehinske Thanks! :) I will be waiting for videos with your stories.

[@Soundpost-f2l]

Same here. Been in the machine shop since June. Was handwriting a program at 6am last Wednesday...called for a G43 H06 instead of a G43 H19 because my brain wasn't awake yet and confused the M and T numbers I had just typed in. Didn't see it until after the crash. T6 is my shortest one, little half inch endmill with 3" total offset. T19 was a tap that's got about 6" total offset. Went overtop the first hole and then impaled itself completely down in there. Took me till 10am and sacrificing an endmill to get the tap out of the part and hand turn a pin to fit the hole, also my nice 1/4" tap holder is now screwed and my M6 form tap is dust. Don't quit though. Remember to check that particular thing next time. Now I check my G43s much closer than I did.

[@Smiggi_Inks]

Been operating haas machines, vmc, 5 axis and lathes for 16 years now. Love it!! Love watching your videos. Keep up the great work!!

[@alan.macrae]

Great information you guys post here, including disasters, for folks to learn from. Thank you for 'feeding' the next generation of great machinists.

[@HudsonLighting]

100% want more of Donnie, what a character!

[@stamrly418]

If you don’t do mistakes you never learn.. or become better than average you just hope its parts not equipment that you mess up.. if it is equipment then the hill you climb is close to vertical.. then to say it to camera with compassion is wonderful The banter between all the departments is great. The banter means the departments do discuss things silence is a barrier to free flow of help and assistance to the whole company

[@sam2902]

Dude killing it Donnie!! Great behind the camera! Love these stories, Love the team energy!

[@Kurtaurus]

don't be mad about this crash, I've crashed machines very often, somtimes very hard, it made me learning very much about machines

[@joesmith2465]

he who wants to do something finds a way, he who doesn't find an excuse. and anything worth doing is worth doing right.

[@Sara-TOC]

Awesome story Donnie! You are very down-to-earth and relatable with your approach. Your father sounds like great man, I’m sure he’s proud watching this! This made me think about my glory days! Like I’ve said to others, it’s all about your approach. EVERYONE makes mistakes, it’s part of being human. If you’re honest about your mistakes and learn from them, most employers will be forgiving. Too often you see the 99% blame the machine or cover up the mistake in fear of consequences. “I don’t know how this could’ve happened!” or my personal favorite, “The machine just bumped.” If you’re not honest, maintenance can’t help accordingly. Never disrespect those guys/gals, they’re the ones fixing what you messed up. Remember that.

[@donniehinske]

Thank you Sara! and yes I totally agree 100000%

[@nofunallowed3382]

MORE STORYTIME WITH DONNY! The way he tells stories is fun

[@randywl8925]

I totally agree but I slowed the video to 50% speed. 😁

[@JannickJulian1994]

i want to see a sitcom with Donnie & Barry

[@Robert-cu9bm]

If you love it, you'll teach yourself. If you don't love it, others will teach you.

[@cncshorts1075]

Wow story telling is off tha charts. This guy is what i strive to be like every day from now on lol.

[@MarcinKryszak]

Conqest T42's sub was a real master piece. Real engineers convo. "Can you make the sub alignment the most annoying and time consuming? Also make it so, its easy to get out of alignment. Shure boss, hold my jar of picked juice.

[@christophervillalpando1815]

Awesome story Donnie! Youre a natural!

[@nuggs9820]

At my work I run a 5ax tsugami and a ganesh Swiss and it's the worst when I have to do setup but after my first good part, it's just sit there and measure every 5 parts and easy going.

[@jogalot6726]

Massive fuckups usually end up with a firing. But like you mentioned several times "my dads shop"

[@donaldgminski8621]

How much caffeine did you ingest before this??

[@donniehinske]

A llllllooooottttttt…… 😂

[@donaldgminski8621]

@@donniehinskelol Back off the Monsters, man! They're SUPER terrible for you.

[@cncshorts1075]

Donnie is a legend

[@benjaminordonez779]

GOOD JOB DONNIE! Your adding value and that's the KEY!

[@tristanallen2448]

I'm run my Dad's shop, and I pretty much do every managemant/lead position as well. I also get to be the one one to fix our machines. Outside of sending out spindles to be rebuilt, or a control that blew a capacitor, we haven't had to spend any money for a tech to fix our machines in years. It has to be one of the most stressful thing I do. Tearing into machines that valuable knowing what's on the line if I don't succeed. Right now I have our Samsung torn apart waiting for the spindle to come back. Although stressful, it feels good to be able to fix out machine, and save the company a decent amount of money every time. Most our machines are 10-20 yrs old, so it feels like every 6 months I get a new project. Some quick and easy others not so much.

[@donniehinske]

Yea you gotta do what it takes! Always stressful. It does feel great when you do actually accomplish what you set out to do. The path there can be brutal though.

[@SpatialGuy77]

You must enjoy the extra pay and bonuses every time you save your company thousands! Mick🇦🇺

[@deanavitale3072]

I remember this and many other repairs you did. I admire your drive; always have. But we need to talk about my Christmas present . . . . .

[@donniehinske]

MOM its a great idea! just think about it! It would look great on the Christmas tree!!!

[@Kardos55]

Great story and great delivery, you can tell when someone can think on their feet.

[@notyou1877]

That sound is money to my ears. Thanks for all the overtime!

[@beetlejuice4693]

I started as a Welder then machinist after that a cnc programmer now I am a tool and die maker I am so happy to see other people who love this work Donnie reminds me of myself I miss my cnc work but I do enjoy the work I am doing now I fell in love with building dies

[@B.V.Luminous]

More Donnie, PLEASE! So positive.

[@justinbroderick4126]

Great energy dude!

[@kitatit]

You are good at this Donnie! Keep doing what you are doing!✊

[@nathanthomas8184]

Donnie your the Marty feldman of the SHOP. Titan keeps the best who have no FEARS & Exude Character 500K T-Team BOOM

[@timothycollette8263]

ive been a 4 axis, Esprit and Mastercam machinist/moldmaker for 15 years... new job is a mazak lathe and im getting my ass handed to me. Always something new to learn! love it!

[@ronidaffan5904]

Thank you, this was inspiring. You r father is a great person.

[@donniehinske]

Thank you

[@Reman1975]

Back in the manual machining days, a mate of mine (During his apprenticeship) managed to destroy the bed, the vertical power feed gearbox, and a fixture plate on a bloody great old milling machine, all through "inattentiveness". I'm not sure about the specifics, but apparently it involved the machine trying to plunge a large cutter through the fixture and table while he had his back to the mill to check tolerances on the part he'd previously finished. He was relying on the stop disengaging the feed, but for some reason it didn't this time, and he only realised something was wrong when he (And everyone else on site) heard the "thud clatter clatter clatter" of multiple teeth finally parting company with gears behind him ! He once said that the failure was probably due to all the extra mechanical resistance when the cutter finally met the hardened X axis lead screw, but I don't know if he was just making a joke about that. They had spares for everything they needed to fix it on site (They had several identical mills in there, so kept most of one in kit form to use as spare parts), but rather than have him fix it, they moved him to the mill right next to it, and pulled one of the old timers (Who hated my cocky mate's guts) off his regular work to rebuild it, and snarl/utter nasty comments at my mate the whole time he was doing it. 🥺 My mate reorganise his work area after that, so that he had to move a little further, but was always facing towards the mill. 😁

[@OnionKnight541]

i love the story; you had great leadership, great mentors, and they held you to a standard that was as good as you could get. that's an excellent environment to grow.

[@mandoalcala6344]

Good video, good lesson. I’ve been running CNC lasers and i definitely went through a lot of mistakes to get me where I am today, love watching your videos God Bless

[@JSAFIXIT]

I think lasers are my favorite machines. You can do some very cool stuff with them if you know what you are doing. I've got a few in storage right now, just waiting to get some space.

[@justlucky8254]

@@JSAFIXIT it's cool how new machines or methods open up so many new possibilities. I've felt that way after coming across waterjets, wire and sinker EDM's, etc. Same thing with materials. The last shop I was at we mostly worked with bi-metals. We used explosives to bond things like stainless to aluminum, copper to titanium, etc. The advantage is having a finished product that is mostly aluminum so easier, cheaper, faster to machine than stainless, but all of the flanges could be welded on with the aluminum side attached to the chamber and then the stainless side being used for the sealing surface. They could also be made so much lighter compared to all stainless versions which is a crucial factor when the products are going to Mars or elsewhere in the universe. We made ultra high vacuum chambers used by places like CERN, JPL, NASA, SPACE X, universities, national labs, etc for mostly research. Explosion bonded materials can be incredible for many applications and its awesome scrap to use for side projects. We also had some parts that were 3D printed aluminum. They were incredibly intricate and completely impossible to machine from billet, but they were metallurgically comparable to 6061 T6. Technology is amazing. 👍

[@JSAFIXIT]

@JustLucky825 I was amazed how accurate EDM is! It's such a simple thing mechanically too. Explosion bonding/welding is neat too. I've never seen it done, but I've read about it. I think 3d printing with metals will be revolutionary to what we can build. We may even be able to use extremely exotic alloys or multiple types of metals/ceramics in one piece that would otherwise be impossible.

[@justlucky8254]

@@JSAFIXIT absolutely. Speaking of EDM'S, the first time I used a wire was to cut a gear for a submarine when I was apprenticing at a navy shipyard. The accuracy on a first cut is just great. If I could have one machine at home, it would probably be a wire. If it conducts, it cuts. As for material, explosion bonded stuff is the best I've ever worked with. You are right and the future, which is coming fast, is going to unlock some amazing things even just in our little world of machining/welding/manufacturing.

[@tdg911]

Awesome story. Even at 115200 baud that would still be incredibly slow. We used to have to upload Cisco iOS via rs-232 when we lost our core router and it literally took forever lol. Work ethic or attitude is everything. My favorite quotes is attitude determines altitude. Much love and gratitude.

[@donniehinske]

lol Even at 10 times THAT baud rate it would still be slow. Yea I dont miss using that at all. A floppy disk was better

[@tdg911]

@@donniehinske I totally agree. My online days back in the day started out 90 baud and when the Hayes 1200 came out it was lightning speeds lol

[@ipadize]

How long is "literally forever"?

[@donniehinske]

@@tdg911 90 baud???? I seriously could not imagine that

[@donniehinske]

@@ipadize It's literally forever

[@mikep3813]

I may have missed you saying it, but what happened to your dad's shop? What made you want to go somewhere else? Did that sour your relationship at all when you left?

[@donniehinske]

He sold it and retired. Worked out really well for both of us! No hard feelings still talk to him to this day

[@resco91]

Man, I remember when I first started working on cnc machines, there were some guys around my age already working there and fhey were so mean , they were saying stuff like "oh, look another one , bet he'll be gone in two or three months" if there was an issue with a machine they wouldn't let me watch how to fix it and all that kind of stuff....guess what? A few months later they were the ones who left and now almost five years later my boss will trust I can handle the whole production line, it's a pretty big shop, we have seven production lines with like 16 machines on each line, all doing different parts , and now I got to a point where I literally work on every single line if we're understaffed, and I learned everything I did because I enjoy doing what I do , somedays are better than others but every workplace has its good and bad days , right? Just for the record I don't know how to write programs, like I know basic codes but when it comes to programming we have a separate department for that, I just run the machines , check the workpieces , change tools and do maintenance when necessary

[@donniehinske]

Heck yea man thats awesome! Good for you

[@GrumpyMachinist]

It certainly takes a special breed of person to enjoy machining. It's sounds like you are on point. From the guys I've met and/or trained it usually takes about 5 years before the math really starts to click. It's like an epiphany, you wake up one day and boom, you understand. It's the strangest thing. If you really do like machining you should be putting a bug in your bosses ear that you want to go to the next level. You're in a unique situation to make yourself invaluable to the company if you learn to use CAD/CAM because you can already manage the floor and the trust is already built. I love my job too but being on the floor going round and round day in and day out will break your body. Just saying...

[@resco91]

@@GrumpyMachinist I don't mind it, I actually love working on the shop floor, it took me about a year to really learn , I'm usually a fast learner, like I look at what my supervisor does once and then I just memorise it on the spot when he's fixing something , we have some like 20 year old Realmeca Spinners Vertical Centers five axis, and they break all the time , now the tool magazine gets jammed , two days ago as I was working I also watches his fix it and now when that happens I don't even call him , I just do it myself , I might call him if the tool changer gets jammed but one day I'll take the time to learn how to fix that too 😅 I'm more accustomed on Chiron/fanuc, I don't like Sinumerik systems as much And when I have new colleagues in training if I see they want to learn, I love passing on the gift of machining , three years ago I had this old guy, he was working in our shop for around a year, didn't know too much, I two weeks I taught him everything he needed it know , I put every tool in front of him in the exact order that they work, explaining what each tool does , he told me he never had anyone teach him with that patience :)

[@oldscratch3535]

Knowledge gatekeepers are the worst. I'm all about showing someone how to do something b/c next time I won't have to do the shit. They can do it and I can go back to running parts and watching KZbin videos. We got a new gung ho kid at work and I usually run 2 machines. He wanted to run 2 which left me with 1. I said go ahead man. Knock yourself out. Less shit I have to do. He did a fine job.

[@resco91]

@@oldscratch3535 maybe to some it's a superiority complex, for others it may be the fear of you eventually replacing them in the future, I never care for those things because I'm confident in my knowledge and know the value I bring to this specific shop with the skills I have as a machine operator and know that although I am replaceable, finding that one in a hundred person willing to learn everything I know now would be more of a headache for them than it would be for me to actually find a new job

[@nickb3005]

When you have the ability to care what others think and not wanting to let them down you have the ability to be awesome!

[@adamcarter7752]

This guy is awesome. Will definitely be watching more of his videos.

[@richardharvey216]

Dude this channel is just incredible. I have a small amount of cnc experience. But Never was around guys who would take the time to teach me.

[@Fixingeverthingwithaengine567]

I use to work for a company that made all the parts for Pride mobility and Golden mobility. We made everything including the hardware. There was a guy that worked there and he turned up the lathe to full speed without closing the 40ft inclosure that held it while it spun. You know the 40ft length wobbles at the end. What happened was the full length went through the wall into a parked car. Penetated through the passenger door in to the engine bay out the headlight. Old school lathe. With both computer and manual adjustment points.

[@SpatialGuy77]

Yeah yeah, we get it, you're awesome, you're great, you're only guy ever who ever did it that fast, that well and that precise. Congrats on your 10 minutes of self praise. Yay. Mick🇦🇺

[@donniehinske]

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@brentjenkinsdesigns]

I think it is Gary Vee that says "if you dont already love making mistakes, you've already lost." Because every mistake or failure is the best education that we can ask for.

[@TITANSofCNC]

Yes Sir

[@redcherry6914]

He's a natural!!!

[@piratiniwood547]

Honest story Donnie, not many speak about crashing a machine, but it is part of a cnc operators life, it happens to all of us ....... I will buy a Dodeka mill as bookend 🤔 😂

[@andrewb2475]

If I'd done that much damage my Toolroom foreman would have told me to shut my mouth!

[@chestervaldes7551]

Donny, please more stories! Loved your presentation!

[@DiscoR53]

First manufacturing job I ever had was in aerospace and the first thing that they had me do for over a month was doing nothing but rework. I ended up learning from other people’s mistakes, and I made a few of my own but nonetheless I learned.

[@khalidalhadidi6402]

We learn from mistakes and we become stronger keep it up bro 💪

[@travisjarrett2355]

Solid bro! Well done.

[@tonymoll6265]

Great job Donnie! Why are you so AWESOME? Oh, that's right, you're from Michigan.

[@stefz1]

i worked in a maschineshop and i run 2 maschines at the same time... well while i was programming, one of them had a crash. it was 100% my fault. a few days later i crashed the other machine.. well i caused damage about 75k euros in total.. i was completely down.. I had to go to my boss, we had a conversation, I was so sure I would be fired. He said "Young man, you do great work, mistakes happen and these cost money. But that's not your problem. Focus on your parts and the machines.It's OKE to make a mistake, This can happen to anyone and even the best, the most important thing is that you learn from it and do not make mistakes twice. keep going! :) " i'm so proud to work in this company!!

[@amaccama3267]

Nice job. Good to see a young bloke who owns his fuck ups. Wish there was more like you in the workforce. 👍🤘🇦🇺

[@thealchemist5376]

More Donnie!

[@jestonporter5049]

Yes, let's hear about all the crashes! I know I have a few stories as well. 😂

[@shakascloset1700]

Awesome story, reminds me of me when I was younger.

[@JarppaGuru]

1:11 never happen. machine has single step and screen to see what happen next. rapids are slow on first run. hurry end up fast. you fix problem longer than it take test program. next part you can push machine limits if want. i would not still do it. i still go next rapid speed and confirm. third part. full speeds. none of time was missed. no fixing time

[@Bawbag0110]

One of the people I work with drove put accessory head into the bed before causing £250,000 of damage

[@donniehinske]

Wow. Thats record setting!

[@Bawbag0110]

@@donniehinske Just glad it wasn't me

[@thomasd1513]

Donnie’s great testimony left out the how his crash would have been prevented. Novice machinist should reduce the override federate of rapid and feed with 1st time run. On the monitor read the ‘to go’ value. And if you hit feed hold in the countdown to the workpiece as it gets close, evaluate the distance. If you need 1 inch to reach workpiece, and your ‘go to’ value reads 5 inches to go. STOP and get assistance to correct.

[@AlphaSierra375]

Love this video Donny! Really humbling to hear the painful lessons others learned and how to overcome that hurdle. Stay well and Merry Christmas to everyone at CNC - including the camera man!

[@matth1210]

Hats off to Joe staying and helping you

[@donniehinske]

100%

[@forgeline5212]

I work in automotive restoration, but there’s a machine shop right next door to us. One of their employees crashed their CNC lathe, tried to hide it, cut himself while trying to fix it, then just walked out. He sent them an email complaining about safety in the shop and proceeded to call OSHA on them. Dude tried to absolve himself of liability by crying about his boo boo… that he caused himself.

[@jmowreader9555]

You realize that because the vast majority of people who watch this channel are men, them giving Dodeka Shell Mills With Ten Inserts for Christmas will cause rather...well, interesting situations around the tree. "Hi Julie, here's your Christmas present. Hope you like it!" "Aww, you shouldn't have...by the way, what is this thing?" "It's a Dodeka Shell Mill! The very finest of its kind!" "That's sweet, Joe...and I'm sure you'll just love the makeup and earrings I got you." That having been said, your dad was awesome to have you fix the machine you crashed.

[@jonathansloan4205]

I want more of Donny's stories! 😁

[@Innovativeindustries]

More Donnie stories!!!

[@cyber2526]

more stories with donnie! \o/

[@bumsiltech]

My lecturer emphatically said it was a lathe machine with cnc control. But you are the American where CNC was born... and I trust you more... haha

[@chatterdev]

Donnie is a great presenter 👍

[@nokiot9]

How many times have you had to pull the chuck key out of the ceiling tiles cus of him?

[@h0mbsk]

We need more Donnie, you have Mills. But some of us are Swiss Style and love Donnie :)

[@RossiDeakin0406]

"The Don Dornie "Titan's shop in every department is the inspiration international standard for all to aspire to, wishing you had a European base set up, I'd be busting a gut to get involved 👏👍💪👊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

[@mr.dahliaking.202]

I am 22 and I was given a job of a tube bender on a huge CSM hydraulic CNC bender, and they told me absolutely nothing. They did not show me how to use the computer program that was by this point 20 years old, they did not show me how to properly disassemble and assemble various rolling dyes, bending dyes and corrugating dyes I had to learn everything from scratch by watching demonstrations on youtube, and I tried my best to be good at this job because the stakes were very high with the 50k costing ender. But I failed, and for reasons that soon I found out were not my doing. First of all the machine was heavily tampered by previous mechanics so various safety features would be of because you know how old guys are, all those rules and regulations are getting in the way and are soooooo annoying. Second thing is they somehow rewrote the programs to do slightly different operations than factory designed. How they managed to do this I really not sure because the codes are all locked. Someone really knew what they're doing. Third of all nobody told me anything about this. I made a program to bend a rail frame from 48mm pipe with 4 mm sidewall. It was extremely heavy pipe and I had to feed it into the machine with a overhead crane. Then what happened was I pressed execute bend program and the black hub that holds he tube in place crashed into the dye at huge speed mangling itself, destroying the dye and exploding the pipe like a fucking tulip flower, and not to mention that oil started to pour out of the machine because the hoses ruptured. The boss came and he started screaming ate me "you're gonna pay for this and that you little fucker" but then I stood my ground and told him that nobody showed me how it works, I had to watch youtube videos to find out for myself, none told me how the bloody programs were tampered with, and that was the sole reason the thing crashed so badly, because execute bend program button on a new program always does the first bending cycle while resetting the zero position, witch on a proper program should only happen if the pipe is not intertied and there is no dye on the spindle installed, there should be an error code, but because the sensors were removed for convenience, the machine assumed it was clear path. After I showed him everything he apologized to me, said he really didn't knew that older technicians in his company were such pieces of shit, he fired them on the spot and I got a huge promotion, and got new bender that only I will be working with, nobody else. I wonder if this could have been the case for the guy in the video? nobody showed him how to use it, just said "do your job" and let the 19yo kid go ballistic with the machine and ruined it without knowing any better.

[@CSGATI]

Unwritten law you break it you fix it, The breaking stops or you're fired.

[@borodinojoe1850]

Proud of U kids…..Keep it up.

[@edmundzadurian8908]

You’re funny but I liked your honesty and the story you shared with us the CNC family 😂✌️

[@prestongriffin416]

please bring more

[@johnl5177]

More videos on macro programming would be nice

[@donniehinske]

Stay tuned

[@johnl5177]

@@donniehinske I've got a program I run at work that I inherited when I became the machinist here, jam full of macros for speeds, feeds , probing for z height that updates the z height as it mills down each step. I've learned exactly how it reacts I just don't fully understand the coding. It's very annoying It's like a pain in my side that I haven't fully learned it yet. I get the variables how it uses formulas to do speeds and feeds but the rest of the height stuff uses the the probe height but I'm not understanding how or where it's storing that value or how it's updating

[@johnl5177]

@@donniehinske very little videos of sufficient quality available even on KZbin for macro programming

[@donniehinske]

Add me on FB and message me. I’ll help you out when I can

[@kevbot5.0keller66]

I wish I learned how to replace those spindle crush bushings on the Hermles.

[@jordankennedy1494]

We run three stars. A 32mm sv, a 32mm sr32j, and a 20mm sr20. All extremely solid machines. Mid program editing without scrapping the part just set tools to diameter of stock and cut ten thow big and dial that part in and minimize time in editing and getting it running to begin with. Will hold tough tolerances for hours. Material quality is the only weak point when it comes to a Swiss and a guide bushing in my opinion. I prefer to run eve trything centerless ground and it’s worth it it will run for hours. Love our stars so glad Swiss machines have a spot on titans!

[@Nocturnal2010]

It's not luck dammit it's hard work and determination. Don't settle yourself short like that ever bro. You didn't let that mistake get you so down that you gave up. You kept going. It really helps that your dad is a real one and kept faith in you, thats 💯 bro 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾. Titan has plenty of stories making mistakes and learning from them.

[@importanttingwei7747]

is the Ibarmia and the horizontal Makino with Titan in the shop

[@robertwilson822]

Hope u doing well down there man! This is Mike B buddy.

[@marvinightmetalworks258]

Sooo uhh, still using rs232 here.. what do you use now?

[@janbutz5169]

i cant go on the site. it says an error ocurred check browser console

[@Sara-TOC]

Try it again and let me know! I just checked, it appears to work on my end.

[@ewor99]

my daddy has a machine shop and I put my mind to taking it over when he retires, attaboy

[@mohammedalbattal77]

Every one of us have those stories 😑😭So how do you think we learn then... from our mistakes and the mistakes of our work team.. I can bet that Mr. Titan personally smashed a lot of cutting tools and indicators so he may have smashed whole machines but in the end we got a pretty solid teacher without any mistakes... I hope Have a flawless career my new friend Donnie I'm waiting for your next videos Definitely Boom

[@skipd9164]

Started at GE gear plant in Lynn MASS. Mark 5 then Fanuc 4 axis cnc horz boring mill. Manufactured gearing cases for pumps. After about 2yrs I won the bid to work on RD project. 15k employees and I was in r25 classification and secured by RD . 1985 I am running 7axis CNC horz boring mill at that time largest in the U.S. x axis about 50ft slotted steel floor. Then a cnc rotation table that also went in and out. y about 20ft z 12in ram and 6in spindle also attachments put on ram for milling. We are devolving the largest high speed reduction gearing for new DDG class destroyers. Around 12 × 12 × 12 ft replacing 15 × 15 × 20 gearbox This all happened because I took Fanuc programming manual home and learned codes. I worked 3rd shift and wrote programs at night and tested them during lunch and breaks

[@eridanusii268]

Lol Joe knew he needed that machine too. He wasn't gonna leave that to chance.

[@colonialroofingofnorthcaro441]

This is how everybody learns this is something you didn't know you learn from your mistakes and you'll never forget this and one day if you ever have to fix it you will know the best process and the quickest way to do it cuz you've already done it at least two or three times the wrong way that's just how we learn that's the way God created the world we all learn from our mistakes as bad as they are without them we'd still be in caves mistakes that that is God bless in Jesus name

[@importanttingwei7747]

most employers would fire you after 3 weeks later, after crashing a machine

[@donniehinske]

Nah Ive been to hundreds of companies as an applications engineer. Never heard of someone being fired over a mistake here and there. Now if it was every other day then yes firing someone would be justified

[@davidmazylewski368]

Single Block, Feed Rate down, step through each line of commands and visually inspect for no interference. Then, once confirmed as working, ramp up the feed rate...

[@NORTHBROOK1978]

Ran two hanwa 32 for a couple years. These types of machines are like the Willy Wonka chocolate factory of CNC.