Machinist's Minute: Changes to your production process can have unforeseen consequences.

[@fredflintstone8048]

It's always a great idea for customers to share as much information about what they need in a product with the machine shop that's making it. Machine shop guys are perdy sharp and can improve the design to make everyone's life easier.

[@Techno_Nomadic]

After looking at the cutter video: Needs half-moon dies. Sure for cutting rebar it's fine, but if the squish as it shears is a problem, especially in softer rounds, it just needs more support. The dies look pretty simple and you should be able to make them in one piece. Just a bar you can put the round hole in the middle and bandsaw in half. Looks like you're shearing hot roll, even O1 will work when the steel is that soft. I used to run one of those multi shear machines that had round holes and square holes and a linear shear on the front. Never had a problem with deformed ends as long as I used the hole that matched the size of the stock. FWIW the cut time was under a second. I think it was made by Peddinghaus ours was flywheel.

[@Kurokimachine]

Just found your channel, big fan already. I've got a machine and fab shop in middle of nowhere Canada and its always interesting to see how others approach problems

[@runningbird501]

I'm going to guess the shear is creating an oval out of the stock and it finds the shortest radius when put under pressure hence the rotation and clocking issue.

[@dhcrouchmarineltd3049]

Nothing more enjoyable in developing a process. Great

[@jkbrown5496]

It's funny how the idea of where innovation comes out of the universities has taken hold given the fact that the Industrial Revolution came out of the workshops of England, not the technophobic universities. It's not that engineer isn't additive, but that so many engineers these days have never gotten their hands dirty working with things in the real world. "The germs of nearly all the great inventions in mechanics, the fruit of which the world now enjoys in such ample measure, are directly traceable to the work-shops of England, during a period when she had no system of popular education. The apprentices in her shops were poor, obscure, and illiterate, at the start; but to those apprentices the honor of the great inventions and discoveries of that age is largely due. And in the struggle to invent tools and machines, to master the art of mechanism, to steal from Nature her secret forces, and harness and use them for the good of man, the toiling workers often became highly educated - intellectual giants, familiar not alone with special studies, but masters of many-branches of learning." -The Co-education of Mind and Hand, Charles H. Ham, 1890

[@RJ1999x]

Mostly BS

[@JohnMoses1897]

Basic premise is correct, but pronounced as word salad

[@donniev8181]

​@RJ1999x just because you cannot understand how something is true, doesn't make it bs. What portion of what this man said is bs exactly?

[@RJ1999x]

@@donniev8181 most of the innovation came from the US, not England, and a lot of what was invented in England was inefficient, and was perfected in the US

[@donniev8181]

@RJ1999x yeah Great Britain just brought out the steam engine, only the biggest tool of the industrial revolution, nothing big.

[@petewood2350]

Engineering Degre? I thought it was all Lawyers and Accountants trying to be Engineers.

[@memyselfandeye1234]

Quality ... Thats One Hell Of A Bender ... peace

[@benjurqunov]

You might want to use 1/2 round cutter dies. But since you've got a pretty easy fix by modifying the bending table, it's probably more trouble than it's worth if you need to make them.

[@somebodyelse6673]

Whaddaya mean nobody will let you talk to them? Is it a Top Secret facility? Since when does a customer NOT want their stuff to work with less problems??

[@fredflintstone8048]

Company politics and fear in chain of command. I've seen it hundreds of times. The larger the company the more you will run into this. It's usually petty managers that force the process to go through them creating a bottle neck. They usually don't fully understand processes themselves and inject problems. My favorite motto is: "Lead, follow, or get out of the way".

[@EitriBrokkr]

Lol all the time

[@mrfrenzy.]

This happens to me like every week. Customers want us to program their devices but we are not allowed to talk to the manufacturer.

[@babcockcopper]

Pedrick bender? What size?

What breed of dog is the black fluffy thing? looks a lovely dog.

[@HOWEES]

A mutt pretty much -Cameraman

[@ebayselle]

Like I said I don't know why you don't just stack them in the saw strap on with ratchet straps and cut them I done thousands of rods like that sometimes they get loose on you

[@orangetruckman]

So you’re looking for feedback and some constructive criticism. Should be easier than making a video about it 🤦🏼‍♂️