This Isn’t Your Typical Machine Shop! | PTP Manufacturing Machine Shop Tour

[@lexugax]

Love to see family business like this. I am just starting my own, and my kids are still young, but I am hoping they will grow to enjoy and take part in the business too.

[@Kytes93]

you'll be able to buy a Porsche in no time, trust me

[@lexugax]

@@Kytes93 Not sure if you are trolling or not, buddy, but that is not part of the plan.

[@joshualegault1095]

That guy takes pride in how his shop looks.

[@rah4822]

Beautiful shop! I have been in machine shops across the country and it is rare to see one this clean and organized. Ironically my first job was at Generac in Waukesha. It was 1972!

[@aintdatsnipes177]

Shop's spotless.

[@Lostin2024]

Very cool 😎 specializing in a specific material is a pretty smart business model. I love the fact that they can do metal if needed, but strategically focus on plastics. Also, the cleanliness of plastic is pretty awesome. The less coolant you have to interact with in your life the better.

[@prabakaranasokraj174]

Very interesting. Post moulding, secondary machining, particularly a solid PVC rod with 16 drills and tapped holes showcases the intricate capability of PTP. Congratulations and best wishes

[@ArikaStack]

You can tell he's a real machinist through and through because he is struggling to put what he does into words that non machinists can understand.

[@I.Odnamra]

I dont want to burst your bubble but on their channel under description it reads: A vibrant community of dedicated machinists, fabricators, engineers and manufacturers from all industries and interests. Unfortunately, this is not a channel for non-machinists.

[@ArikaStack]

thanks, now g28 the 2" insert drill that is currently g83ing your origin, because it really g65 p9833's me when you set your rapid to 100 and crash with an effective z-30 in your g54, because that comment makes assumptions that are as innacurate as forgetting to turn on g254 on a cycle at b90 (or a90 if not haas).

[@I.Odnamra]

@@ArikaStack are you always this defensive? Sounds like youre Alarm 254ing and PS0329ing because you are all over the place. Youre assuming that Im assuming. Sounds like you can benefit from G28ing that same drill, indexing to a probe and retouch your offsets. Oh and maybe throw in an M8 to not destroy your drill.

[@MachinedInWood]

I run another type of “not typical” machine shop - we work predominantly in wood, hence the name. I was never a wood worker… or a machinist for that matter, but I had a lot of hobbies that I needed parts for, so I built a small CNC machine and learned on that. We have 3 CNC machines now, 2 lasers, 3D printing etc. Wood happened almost by accident and as time went on, we got the majority of our business in the form of wood projects. There is less of a market, and therefore very few options for people who need precision CNC machined wood working that is not furniture or cabinetry. We’re located in MA but have taken on work from as far away as California and Washington as well as Pennsylvania, Connecticut, New York etc. Parts that were made in our little home based shop have been shipped all around the world on high end products such as audio cables and recording devices, various awards and custom designed art pieces.

[@capcloud]

How do you find your first customer? Do you just cold call companies around you?

[@oishisakana]

what an absolute dream. Thanks for posting this sort of stuff I find it a bright light in an otherwise dark world.

[@Muny]

Beautiful shop

[@tomt9543]

Very interesting operation! Congrats on your success!

[@leverman7517]

I ran a 5' x 10' abrasive waterjet (Omax) for ten years (1997-2007), cut almost every type of material I ever heard of, including phenolic sheet 3/4 " thick. Metal up to 5 inches thick down to shim stock. best years of my career

[@parkerprecisionmoldinginc.5550]

Nice shop! No one talks about how difficult it can be to machine injection molded parts - they can sometimes be worse than castings. We machine some of our own molded parts, and I still to this day ask why we took on some of the parts we did haha

[@hotlaprc1980]

so cool, i used to machine alot of the plastic components from this video when GE Water owned the aqua-matic brand

[@hornbaker]

Plastics are nice to mill because you can use air for coolant and keep things clean. But heat is a challenge with machining fast because hot chips can fuse back to the base material. Single-flute, deep-groove, low-helix cutters like Onsrud work great. Downside is that you can’t push cutters to their limit; plus side is they last forever.

[@unclebuck5051]

Hard work brings success. Congratulations on yours.

[@bwilliams1815]

Simply awesome. May God continue to bless you, your family, and business.

[@KatieRose-n7c]

Thank you 🙂

[@richhuntsd12]

Beautiful shop. Thanks for sharing your shop and History. Just out of curiosity do you guys use a mist or air or anything for lubrication on the plastics? Or just completely Dry?

[@KatieRose-n7c]

Depending on the application we will use air or machine dry!

[@weldmachine]

I've heard many times that a Dirty Shop is a Busy shop ???? But, their is nothing better than working in a Tidy organised shop 👍👍

[@jameslong3351]

Beautiful shop, I want to work for you. And I'm 70 years old. (I use to build bowling alleys).

[@ryebis]

I've worked in machine shops all my life, none this clean.

[@machine.grundberg]

awesome shop! thanks for sharing

[@KatieRose-n7c]

Thank you!

[@CNC-Guru]

Well presented shop 👌

[@tdg911]

Nice shop!

[@sedled2829]

There must be a lot of injection molding near by

[@Whoistocome]

I live ten miles from this shop. I run a smooth g vertical mill mazak at a place near by.

[@nathancoy8066]

No big routers with a vacuum table? We have 4 of them in our shop. (Haas GR-510) The mills do all the secondary operations mostly.

[@legaasriganasen8140]

Cool workshop… little question most of yr material are plastic made … how to clamp them in those fixtures bcz i never done any plastic made parts so… how is that

[@marcvaillancourtmv]

Myshop is specifically plastic as well. Mostly aircraft parts as well as cryogenic applications

[@st.michaelthearchangel7774]

How is that shop so clean? That is amazing.

[@jeevzthegod]

Nice shop

[@jhomer145]

Classic American Pride !

[@juanskatebr]

i'm in love

[@philiphaahr5413]

Why not have some more automation? In Denmark the salary is too high to make part like this without robots. And wauw a clean shop!!

[@JigilJigil]

Yes, that was my thought as well, automation could make their business more efficient.

[@obi-wankenobi9871]

They might have small batches and it looks like they have a lot of different part shapes.

[@natpainter8185]

plastic balls what is the solution

[@chronokoks]

I love on the workshop how there are absolutely no windows. Because that's what americans do to themselves. Have companies in sheet metal cans with no windows. I don't know why americans are afraid of windows so much.

[@lvxleather]

You still need indicators for calibrate probes and setting up fixturing.

[@oscarbear1043]

No metal chips hallelujah.

[@jamesboardman7048]

Engineering has a language that is universal world wide, but you need to be a machinist or engineer to understand.

[@Omnis2]

Clean your camera lens and/or sensor

[@damojfowler]

There are no metal chips here.."we also do machine metal for some of our customers".

[@andrewhotko]

katie, you pregnant?

[@KatieRose-n7c]

yes!

[@andrewhotko]

@@KatieRose-n7c congratulation...!😀😀