I Machined a 50 Million Dollar Part

[@Mriya6]

Spoiler warning: They never show so much as a single frame of the part they machined. It's just a story combined with B-roll of different projects. If you wanted to see the machining of a $50m part I guess you shouldn't have clicked on a video about machining a $50m part, like some kind of fool.

[@pkrent3461]

Yeah this is how they make money, ppl think they will show it...😂

[@Shirehi]

Click bait is the oldest trick in the book and the youtube thumbnail is its stomping grounds lmao This part was probably classified and therefore completely illegal to film in the first place. 🤷‍♂️

[@Dasycottus]

Pretty much every single assembly on a Columbia Class Submarine is classified. They can't show it. Period.

[@Mriya6]

@@Dasycottus THEN WHY MAKE THE FUCKING VIDEO?!

[@Laminar-Flow]

@@Mriya6 Why not make the video just because you plebians don’t have clearance to see the part? It’s still an interesting insight into something that no one here has done in our professional careers.

[@piccalillipit9211]

*NOBODY STARTS BY MACHINING HUNDRED MILLION DOLLAR PARTS* I thought the career advice - LIFE advice you gave in this video was utterly BRILLIANT. I started my hobby by making a paperboy cap that didn't fit - 4 years later I make £5000 bespoke historical men's suits and I have a 4 year waiting list.

[@theyhatedHimcuzHetoldtheTruth]

It's always so great to hear about businessess that worked out. As someone who tried a billion things and failed all of them, I can truly admire your sucess. Now, if I did the math right, the billionth first will work.

[@BladeBarn]

most big companies do actually start right out the gate at the absolute top level. its the other way around that nobody grows from garage to the top.

[@axelmilan4292]

Meanwhile machine shops: you need a Masters degree and at least 40 years experience to get this unpaid internship.

[@akjshdfgkjhsdfgkjsdhfg]

do you have a website? id love to check out your work (and maybe add my name to that waitlist). i can appreciate a good suit.

[@snowskimaster]

@@akjshdfgkjhsdfgkjsdhfgI second this, would like to check out your website as well.

[@petercozzaglio6070]

I don’t think they actually machined a 50 million part. But he sure talked about it until he was out of breath.😮

[@trevorgreene9951]

They’re probably not allowed to talk about the part itself

[@elcarpinteroGamer]

hahaha yes these guys are fake as hell...

[@Korver15]

Titans of Clickbait

[@joesmith1574]

Jealousy rears its ugly head. If you ask nicely, they might show you the receipt of the work.

[@Reactiontime6000]

Are you guys serious? Some clients sign a contract that their parts aren’t displayed to the public, they aren’t breaking that for some idiots on youtube

[@romoalex]

I served on a Los Angeles class submarine. Watching this video was cool as hell. I’ve touched every valve on my old boat and touched every machined surface and was super impressed with its craftsmanship

[@suffolkmike1]

I machined tons of parts for LA class subs. My brother served in the Navy from 1970-1993 as a submariner. Thanks for your service!

[@lobster8009]

Machinist of dead tree carcass here. The most expensive mistake ive ever made happened when i machined a kitchen counter top. Customer and boss stood next to me when my CNC moved to its parking position and i went to check the fit of the metal sink in the hole i just cut. Fell clean thru, always check for your tool radius correction folks or your holes will end up exactly one tool diameter bigger than programmed. Lesson learned.

[@darinr9424]

I did that for about 3 months cutting granite counter tops on a cnc... junk job. Junk owners. Let's just say it this way . Immigration got called. When the first officer showed up. Over half the workforce ran out the back door. No bs... and the owner knew it.. he would sit at lunch and drink beer with them. Yet point fingers at us.... no.. I didn't call them. But I look back and that was funny asf.. cough us hack stone in houston.

[@Jason-gt3ht]

You can weld wood right??? It’s ok 😂😂😂. Suck ls to hear but great learning experience

[@mylifeisdope916]

Technically that part was priceless, the same exact piece cannot be recast. Anyways interesting knowing when a piece of wood is cut open you're the first human to ever see it.

[@kraftwurx_Aviation]

Rookie mistake

[@69ballsmahoney]

Cutter comp

[@brandons9138]

The parts I make aren't expensive, but they are mission critical to saving lives everyday. I got to see parts that I made enter a human heart in a valve replacement procedure.

[@christopherleubner6633]

Remember making nitinol stents at laserage technologies way back in 1998. Lots of QA traveller paperwork per part. 0ut of 10 only 2 were actually good enough to be put in somewhere in an artery. The stainless ones had a much better rejection rate.

[@brandons9138]

@@christopherleubner6633 Nitinol is no fun to machine.

[@SteveCubis]

That's actually really awesome!

[@AMERICANPATRIOT1945]

brandons9138, They weren't super expensive at your end, but you can rest assured that the medical supply company that sold them got thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars for your not so expensive parts. It is too bad that those who actually do the work don't make the big money from their sale.

[@brandons9138]

​@@AMERICANPATRIOT1945The parts we make are only part of a larger assembly. Our customer sources the rest of the parts and actually builds the assemblies. They have to get paid too. That's kinda how capitalism works. The guy who mines the iron that goes into steel doesn't get his cut of the cars sale price where the steel ultimately used.

[@gooblio]

It was only a $50k piece of titanium about 20 years ago and the company before us had scrapped the part. We were only a small jobbing shop but did a lot of aerospace work and parts for reactors. We actually ran a test part on a block of aluminum to check our program. The software back then wasn't anywhere as good as today and we weren't taking any chances. The lead time was 3 months to get a new piece of material. I've worked on models and dies that were over $1M but a single part in the assembly was no where near $1M. I can't imagine the stress of machining a, $50M part. 😮

[@haydensmith3590]

Same here. To damn stressful

[@sepg5084]

​​@dafaqis-is supply and demand. If the skill is niche and there is a lot of market demand for it, then skill market value goes up. If there are many people with said skill and are competing to take up the market demand, then skill market value goes down. As a programmer for a niche language, i have experienced the ups and downs of skill market value.

[@Brodozer39]

That’s because a “machinist” nowadays is on the bottom of the totem pole in the process of getting a machined part made these days. It’s the programmers and manufacturing engineers in the machine shop that make the good money. A machinist now days is basically a glorified machine babysitter. Now granted, that’s not the case in every machine shop or every machine shop inside a manufacturing facility, but it’s absolutely the majority of them. A machinist nowadays bolts a billet to a mount, closes the door, and hits the Run button and takes the part out when it’s done. And even that part of the job is quickly being replaced with automation.

[@bathedincloudsofblood]

​​@@Brodozer39 that isn't true at all, especially in job shop work. programs are rarely perfect off the computer. i have to change parameters in the code based on performance, verify that there is no risk of crashing in every setup before and during running, and about half the parts i make i have to make the fixturing myself. and i'm not even a machinist, just an operator.

[@RochaPartneristDeadFireHD]

@@sepg5084 no need to point out the obvious, captain obvious

[@argentiquenoborentino6780]

Watching this video , even though I’m not a machinist or CNC tech, I feel pride and this sense of greatness I had back in the 80’s when as a kid I watched videos of this beautiful and amazing nation. I’m puertorican and growing up outside the main land made me always feel like a regular immigrant who didn’t born with a social security number. And till this day I have engraved in my mind the day the Berlin Wall went down. The speeches of the presidents and the classic videos of the big industries and those amazing Popular Mechanic magazines at the doctor office with the future of technology. I’m an airplane mechanic now. A combat veteran and proud to be part of the world of fixing and creating things. Watching the gentleman explaining the process of planning and how they feel working on such a work and the magnitude of the responsibility is just mesmerizing. Thank you to all that works in the different aspects of keeping not only US moving but the entire world. Wish you all the best

[@MWL4466]

Measure twice, cut once. Theres a pucker-factor for sure doing the high priced parts. I always have somebody double check my game plan or set-up before its run. Sometimes another set of eyes can pick out mistakes or give better approaches to doing things. Teamwork.

[@haydensmith3590]

Always

[@johnnygabriel8392]

They weren't million dollar parts but me and my team built many different types of protective equipment for our troops. We always had the mind set that of this wasn't right someone's life is at stake.

[@DonJDawson]

Thank you for your service. It is a team effort.

[@jmeleika1]

I needed to see this video. I usually make small alum parts, so a scraped part is a few bucks. I recently did 50 pieces of delrin at a material cost of $40/each. Messed up like 7 of them… you feel it for sure

[@jbrev7951]

Well , you talked a much but i saw no 50m part machined

[@werk62]

It's for a military submarine so it's probably classified.

[@waltermarshall3575]

@@werk62 That's what I was thinking too. Can't show the actual part for a good reason. Nuff Said!!!!!!!

[@MechanicalMafioso]

During Covid my company was installing a new 650 million dollar machine that I became responsible for the automation checkout and commissioning as the foreign install team was ordered to go home (all foreigners) took 6 months. I previously only ever did service and upgrades and had never done a whole machine such as that. Shouldn't have taken that long however the company our customer hired to complete all the wire pull drawings royally screwed up and 85%+ of the IO was wrong.. That was fun!!!

[@Mr30friends]

650 million dollar machine? What kind of standalone "machine" costs that much. Doesn't the term grow into a "facility" or "factory" or whatever after one point?

[@willyharris4199]

650 million for a machine, I’d like to know what machine that was

[@samrichards8251]

I pulled a dent out of the quarter panel of my 1995 Lada and it turned out pretty good

[@BR0K1_NYC]

I remember when I scrap my first part. Boss came up to me, ask me if it will happen again. I said no I saw my mistake and I fixed it. He then showed me the price of that part finished. I then told myself to check 18 times before I hit the button 😅.

[@owievisie]

Knowing and understanding your mistake is having the right attitude, good for you

[@user-zt5yf1gw4n]

That's what makes us better . Not making mistakes but understanding the mistakes we made and how to go about it.

[@scottwillis5434]

Admitting your mistakes is the first step towards fixing them.

[@TEAM6USA]

it is amazing how taxpayer money can be spent with Defense and we never have enough money to cover public schools and public safety.

[@Dr_Dude]

This channel makes me want to get into precision machining... very impressive work.

[@bobmcbob8732]

If you are in a first world country then I wouldn't bother as most manufacturing companies are moving production to countries like Slovakia and Mexico right now, a good wage there is £8,000 a year.

[@TomokosEnterprize]

I was drafted out of machinist school to work for Cooper Bessemer in London Ontario Canada making ships engines and pipeline compressors for both centrifical and horizontally opposed piston types. A rough casting for a 48 inch jet engined was well into the millions. 40 long tonne castings were just another day at my 12 foot table Vertical boring mill by Berthiez.I will never forget those wonderful days. DRO was just starting. We all worked on good old dial machines and tape machines. Had to do math all day long. Rolls Royce jet engines powered some compressors. 18 yrs old and in 7th heaven, LOL.

[@bassmechanic237]

I just started machining Titanium for the first time last week. It's been interesting on how different it is from 6061. I'm in my second year of CnC programing and machining at an aerospace company. Its been OJT experience the entire time. Got lucky that they wanted someone with zero experience in machining so they could train me with only good habits from the start. Great channel and get into.

[@BinaryBlueBull]

I would suggest that that isn't luck but rather that they recognized something in you. You don't just hand someone with no experience a training spot plus the room and time to properly develop on the job-which is very expensive and uncertain and so constitutes a major financial and operational risk--unless your intuition and observations quite clearly tell you that this person has greatness in them waiting to be brought out. Don't sell yourself short is my message. You got yourself that spot, not something nebulous like luck, at least not primarily. It happened because you have an innate gift

[@montanaplease]

Skateboarder and basshead. I bet we would get along great 👍 EXO on youtube is both as well

[@MrTehkaiser]

@@BinaryBlueBull "not something nebulous like luck..." Okay... "It happened because you have an innate gift" Uhhh... that's due to.... luck?

[@caridabaptiste9878]

Would you be okay being a mentor to someone thanks.

[@nathanthomas8184]

TITANs just take out all the grey matter, No one likes feeling stupider than the next person & what Titans & his team have created is phenomenal , just bring it ON

[@krisgreenwood5173]

I wish I were 20 years old again. This is truly 21st century science and technology.

[@ddfcfgvgt]

Machined monel (and monel K ) everyday as an MR in the US Navy back in the 80s - never a $100MM part though lol

[@angrydragonslayer]

I forgot if it was copper beryllium or beryllium copper (or one of them "doped" using the other) but the workpieces weighing ~3 kg cost us 750k each and had some of the tightest tolerances i've ever seen. There was not a single surface in the finishes product that wasn't ground or EDM'd

[@srck4035]

Be2cv is the material you are talking about but the raw material price is only around 70 euros a kilo

[@angrydragonslayer]

@@srck4035 then it's not that

[@srck4035]

@@angrydragonslayer of course it could be the other way around beryllium copper has a matt gold look to it and is pretty nasty stuff. Beryllium in general will kill you insanly fast with the dust

[@angrydragonslayer]

@@srck4035 that sounds more accurate to what we were doing Argon atmo cleanroom with basically astronaut suits to keep it clean. Had just set up some stuff inside and got offered to do this job as an extension.

[@srck4035]

@@angrydragonslayer brother you were probably making neuron deflectors from beryllium. Probably for atomic weapons. Or nuclear power. What ever feels better for you

[@Phantomthecat]

Love your teams attitude to this sort of challenge. There’s a lot to be learned here even if you don’t do machining. 👍

[@JaxinLovorn]

I’m only 17 but I’ve already cut a nerve racking part myself. I am apart of my high school robotics team and I am the main operator for the cnc router. For our design we wanted to build a 27” diameter turret made of polycarbonate. It tools a lot of prep work in order to get this done. We first cut test pieces out of pressboard in order to ensure everything would work together. But one problem we had was that the material would flex and an edge on the side of the part would be way out of spec. We managed to fix this by putting screw throughout drill holes we made beforehand to secure the part. Next we also tested out feeds and speeds for cutting polycarbonate on a scrap piece of it. We only had one sheet of polycarbonate big enough for the turret pieces so we made sure everything was right. It was nerve racking for the first part getting cut out. Once it finished I pulled it off and check every dimension and they were all perfect. After that I kept getting more and more confident with each piece, until I could almost just let it run without even watching it. In the end every piece fitted together perfectly and the robot we had made qualified us for the world championship.

[@Vanilla_Icecream1231]

Woooooohhh you In frc?

[@JaxinLovorn]

@@Vanilla_Icecream1231 yup, going into my fourth season

[@williamrosen4475]

What team number? I just had my last season of frc and it was crazy

[@JaxinLovorn]

@@williamrosen4475 5462 2PawRobotics

[@nathannguyen7151]

Yooo fellow FRC peep

[@chudleyflusher7132]

Back in the days of film, I worked in photo labs. Inevitably, mistakes were made and peoples’ film would be ruined. This is the worst because their photos are gone forever and often can’t ever be replaced. It was horrible having to explain ourselves to those customers.

[@wildcatmahone-md6me]

I routinely turn and mill 5 digit one off printed parts for a large vendor. Running test features and holes in scrap along with single block and dry run is straight up SOP. No room for error.

[@jarrodsutterfield3752]

any time i have high cost or high importance parts i remind myself that i have made parts with those features or tolerances before and that helps to make it not as stressful making the part its the you know you can do this mentality

[@mikeblankenship7930]

I worked for years machining parts for the aerospace and defense industries. Many huge jobs. It was always a challenge but very satisfying when outside inspectors would come in to verify it when it was finished. I retired three years ago.

[@pareraphael6035]

Did you manage to make a decent living?

[@TripAyes]

Now, I'm semi-seasoned in lathe machining but I also know that there's a ton I don't know about machining as I keep learning new things from different shops I work in. The most expensive piece I worked on was a large twin plastic extruder barrel coming in at near 250k USD. I was very proud of the work I did in that shop. I've moved on to another shop but they do it all, not just extruder barrels and I'm having to learn so much all over again since you don't know what job you're going to get or what material it's going to be made from. I'm finding it a bit daunting but also exciting and a challenge. We'll see if I hold up. There's days I feel comfortable and confident and there's days I feel lost and unsure.

[@ThatOneOddGuy]

When I decided to start knife making 1 steel flat bar looked cheap ~20USD for a 100cm x 5cm x 0.8cm slab Coat rises when I have to cut out the blade profile and make an accurate blank then there's the abrasives cost and drill bits that some gets burned up Worse problem is my cheap belt grinder table that I used to use for making edges 90° to another face, is broken the good part is that I made a few knife blanks before that happened, but if I mess up these blanks my knife making days will surely end Also the stainless steels are expensive for my budget range for this hobby So I prefer not to buy them So now with what I have left and what I learnt for the steel I wasted I've learnt to design and work in a way that reduces the amount of mistakes I can make and to design and spend more time contemplating the process and design for the knife I've decided to make

[@Michael-ex8lk]

I wouldn't want to even sneeze around something that expensive.

[@jasonb4350]

It’s only 50 million because they say so, the military says hammers cost 200$, there is no way the material comes close to that price, you guys do fantastic work and should get paid well for doing it.

[@DUIofPhysics]

Monel is expensive, and a 14ft size forging does sound like $12m

[@Shirehi]

It's not the material it's the certifications behind the production of the part that cost money. Not every shop has certs that align with the need and there isn't enough of those shops to go around!

[@cinemaipswich4636]

I have made parts for the military. A poly-carbonate window for a camera. 27 pages of specs. Made in 1 hour. Massive air-conditioned workshops to make composite parts for submarines. 12,000 pages of specs.

[@Sailingspeedat9kn]

Wow this is just unbelivabel i don't even want to know how nev wrecking it was to make this part or component but it must have been a great feeling to see the finished part

[@aarondavidson6409]

"some of those discussions were passionate" .... nice way of putting it

[@andyheckel]

Any part with a tapping cycle at the end gets my heartrate going! Doesn't matter if it's a 5 dollar part or a 2000 dollar part....😂

[@alkalk8938]

1.3 million dollar drives shaft for power plant turbine, it was shaped like a very large spool with approx 4ft flanges and 16" center. I was only making some modifications. I also worked on the reclaim turbine, I asked the cost and the engineers from Germany answered priceless. Good times, really.

[@Fr1day-RT]

I know from personal experience the Navy does not play on their requirements or tolerances on machined parts.

[@CPTFiXtion]

Most expensive was $250k titanium castings that become the main trucks for Airbus A380 landing gear ... They finished around $1.2 million a piece... Was happy to not have to be doing the actual machining at that point

[@davidelzinga9757]

Not a machinist, but I was a mechanic in a somewhat rural shop. I had to fix a radiator on a Dodge Viper that bottomed out and bent the nipple using a Jack, cone, and hammer. After that, I was trusted to lift up a 1936 Cord model 810 for a check over. Lifting rare antique luxury cars gives me anxiety. As a superintendent for a general contractor now, I’m currently tasked with remodeling a medical manufacturing facility while keeping dust and VOC’s contained. One metal shaving on the container of their product will trigger the rejection of millions of dollars in products. No pressure

[@Joebummy]

Easy money

[@DavidLagendijk]

My most expensive project was machining 6 gatevalve body’s out of 500mm diameter forged zirconium 705. Total worth of 1 million euro. It scared the shit of out me. Not only because of the money but the chips are extremely flammable. But I got it done.

[@jesuschristislord77733]

This channel is an inspiration to me.

[@ktrendz08]

Snapped a $400 tool in a $1200 block of material for a gearbox assembly. I thought I was going to throw up. Machine didn't have enough memory to load the whole roughing program, so I broke it into 2 layers and stepped down the Z offset. Didn't change the retract height to compensate. Full rapid into the part. Sad day. Lesson learned. Don't cut corners.

[@Bawbag0110]

I machine multi million £ parts for the ship and crane industry daily...if you aren't a little nervous you aren't paying full attention in my opinion

[@NOQUARTER_]

I design, program, and mill specialty medical tools and implants for small kids and babies mostly. Every time I start cutting a new part, I'm constantly thinking about it going into a human body and what if it was my child. I always make damn sure EVERYTHING is 100% correct and has no tolerance issues, defects, or anything else. A person's life depends on it.

[@ethanwhiteford5748]

I'm a welder and the company I work for has contracts for the carriers and Columbia contracts, always cool to see another company helping put this whole thing together.

[@castertroy4743]

All the parts come together once the welder gets his hands on them.

[@AntalopeAUT]

Proper preparation prevents piss poor performance . Mind the 6P´s .

[@maestrovonhuge9397]

I am not in the field, but this clip is great, the way you talked about building yourself up, learn, sharing and if you stuff know what you did to go forward, inspirational, never expected it.

[@weekendfreedom6136]

Best video ever! The part aside, it’s amazing to hear the message. Perfect to apply to so many different people in all areas of life & career

[@benjaminshropshire2900]

A development process that doesn't allow for changes starting *before* you can actually test important things is how you take a $5M part and make it a $50M part. You have to figure out everything that could *possibly* go wrong and account for it even if in reality, 90% of those things could have been totally ignored and wouldn't have had any effect at all. If I was involved in the development, I'd have wanted to ask what it would cost to add two extra blanks to the order from the foundry on top of however many you need to deliver. The assumption being that they will get used eventually (even if the first part if perfect, parts have a tendency to fail in operation and being able to cut two years off delivering a new part isn't nothing). Given the cost of getting extra blanks, you then need to ask the question; is it cheaper to risk a failure you can learn from or to remove every possibility of failure? If the blanks are more expensive then the tooling plan, then by all means, get it right the first time. If not... The general idea I tend to try to work with is "It's only a failure if you didn't learn anything you can use to make the next one better." As long as you set it up to learn as much as possible, and as long as there is a next time, "failure" is always an option.

[@EmazingGuitar]

I used to work for a R&D military contractor that made nuts and bolts for aircraft/ships out of these awesome alloys. My job was to run a small CNC machine that would etch the logo on the top of each of the bolts and ran a pre quality check before it went to the actual quality control department. Was an awesome job, I won a 100$ raffle my first week there 😂 “the new guy would win the best raffle in a while”, co workers reactions was hilarious.

[@jimmyhinterlach9485]

A couple of years ago I was signed to finish a bunch of exhaust manifolds to Koenigsegg. The manifolds where 3D printed in titanium. That material didn`t want to be cut. It didn`t make it easier when I was told what the price was for each printed part. The end resault where great and the customer satisfyed.

[@Lwimmermastermetalart]

Never even came close to making a mistake of those types of magnitudes We were a fairly small shop doing mostly small parts ( still very intricate and accurate) Some were very large quantities and almost everything we did was a repeating part. Probably two hundred or so parts that were repeats. However I can still imagine that feeling. I will share this story though. A good customer had us tool up two CNC lathes to machine a new brass casting . Running 2 shifts we banged them out while a rotary transfer machine was being built. After over 5,000 parts being machined to spec we got a call to stop production immediately. All those parts were just sitting there until they started to assemble them into the final assembly. Turns out they made a huge engineering mistake and couldn’t assemble the unit. We were paid in full but all were scrapped. I’m sure someone there got that sinking feeling. With all the machines and highly skilled people you now have I have no doubt you could take on ANYTHING! Quite impressive to say the least. I do have to wonder though just what would have resulted if you did do a big boo boo .

[@flyingjeep911]

My personal record is a part worth 80k in the end. I treat it like any other part… make it right.

[@ethanbreland7588]

i machined the bow dome mold plugs for these submarines

[@Ric_1985]

I've neve done huge parts but millions of small parts. We used to make a $14 assembly for medical customer. We had to deliver 6k parts weekly. Oh boy some weeks we shipped at the last minute, love and hate that rush...

[@jason4547]

I know absolutely nothing about machining but I identify as a master machinist !

[@zeus9855]

Thanks for the commercial!

[@masterofnow1]

I machine 7, 8 and 9 figure components on site with portable equipment. Sometimes, the lead time for a new part is also years. Careful planning and careful oporation.

[@dundonrl]

Having been in the Navy and served on 3 different warships, the stuff that people like your team does is beyond impressive! KEEP IT UP!

[@tdg911]

That is great advice and bada$$. Much love, respect and gratitude.

[@nomojo1110]

Nerve wracking was having to bite my tongue with a client. We were to take a dining table sized slab of ***ebonised redgum, carbon dated at fifty-thousand years old, and turn it into 40*40*10mm sushi serving tray feet. Effectively stylised wood-chips. ***Submerged in a swamp for 10's of thousands of years caused the naturally occurring effect.

[@Imba-gt7qi]

My most struggeling part, was a ion trap casing assembly für a prototype in 1985. CNC with paperstripe. No display, no haimer 3d measuring device.. made of a special steel. Work 3 months on it. The assembly was 3 kg total.. with 12 parts.19 cncd screws, runs in the first try better than expected. Made by blood sweat and tears 🙂 this parts sold later worldwide a few thousands maschines.

[@InfoRanker]

So where was the $50M part? You didn't even show it?

[@NorbertKasko]

It's either top secret or this was just a clickbait.

[@js-wy8fg]

CNC Machinist with 18 years expired. My most expensive mistake was when l married my ex...

[@alexwaldrum742]

Jesus guys, talk about OPSEC. You just painted the biggest target on your back, I genuinely hope your IT team know how to run a data center properly otherwise any schematics for parts on those aforementioned projects are at risk of spillage. Please go do your cyber awareness training I'm begging you xD

[@MyVash12349]

you didnt actually tell me jack shit about the part, just some random ass pep talk filler for 5 minutes. I watched this with adblock and I still feel ripped off

[@chicknc5165]

Oh, I wish I could post pictures of the parts I've made! Dang NDAs.

[@truegret7778]

Awesome!! I am curious - When you get a contract like this one (for the sub), do you get insurance "just in case"?

[@metalsage5135]

The most expensive parts I've machined were steel tubes with copper-nickel explosion bonded to the outside. These were anodes for the navy. Once those bonded pieces of stock got to us they were worth over $10k and they were one of a kind. Getting more stock because you scrapped one was not an option. Those were rather hard to scrap so it was relatively stress free but still I was triple checking everything.

[@Neddicus]

Just got a job machining wood parts for cabinets a month ago after leaving a paint making shop (my first full time job) with no prior school or experience and I'm loving the technical side of CNC and I love operating it. I've caught on pretty quick with the blueprint reading and operating the machine and eventually want to get into metal when I get some years on my belt. Was curious if some of y'all have any advice for me since I'm basically an apprentice and still learning. the main question I have is I'm referred to as the CNC operator while the CNC programmer actually makes the script for the CNC to follow. So will I eventually need to learn how to program to make this a thriving career? Are Operators more sought after than programmers or do you typically do both on the metal side?

[@elshansalimiyan5066]

You're true legends of Manufacturing Engineering. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻❤️❤️

[@esavage8855]

I work at an extrusion die shop and the most expensive thing I’ve worked on is a 9” die that was chrome plated and I had to grind it, because of the plating process not everything is perfectly flat but I had to grind the chrome to .001-.002 and if I messed it up they would have to strip it and re-plate it which would delay the part and would be quite expensive. The part was worth about $25,000 so nothing too crazy but it’s the most stressful/expensive part I worked on

[@Joe___R]

The most expensive single part I have worked on was worth over $500,000,000. I can give an approximate value, but that is it.

[@PoisonNuke]

Thumbs down because not a single mention of the part, nor a picture. Just telling a story about success with big projects. Thats not what I was expecting when coming here. I was interested to SEE how a huge part will be machined, not to get a life lesson I dont need. Would have not clicked the video if it was clear that this is just a story withouth content.

[@fishsticks88]

Ha, I scrapped way more than that. I told my boss that I didn't believe that it was the right material, although the sticker said it was he said, run it. Well, it wasn't, and I had run the 10000 PC order at about 4 min a piece. It took like 3 months. I found out they where junk when the military showed up and told me to stop running.

[@HighPeakMultimedia]

It's incredible how your advice applies to literally any craft. A fascinating video! I've begun making videos specifically on CNC machining ... one day - I'll film a £50,000,000 part being built! 💯🎥😁 (Great Video btw).

[@ThatOneStopSign]

I accidentally impaled a giant Giddings & Lewis horizontal boring mill because I moved the W axis toward the machine with a long part hanging off of it instead of the Y axis. It didn't break anything there was just a giant hole in one of the panels from then on

[@Ch17638]

these lessons can be applied to any job.

[@Franklinguy759]

Great advise for all. 2 questions. 1- Did you need to purchase any capitol equipment to machine the 50M part? 2- How do you keep that high level team together for a long time.? The large corporations always seem to offer a better employment package than job shops. Most local shops don’t have a very good retention history.

[@udp1073]

Built the first two U212 sub for the Italian navy (worked as PM for the company that built the machine used to build the keel)... and I complete understand your fear, (we worked on Amanox, a stainless steel that it is also magnetical dampening or, to be more accurate, sound dead to magnetic wave making the sub way harder to be found by magnetical anomalies detector) all taht said, the only thing I can add is well done Sir. very well done

[@rwb3335]

Awsome advice. I cut 3/5 Infrared crystal and EPI layers on million dollar detectors. We use single crystal diamonds to cut Cd,Zn,InSb GaZnSa. Titanium to 0.00006" +/- 0.000020" Diamonds or CBN tools are perfect to cut , Rockwell hardened steel. Diamonds cut, Aluminum and exotic plastics well. Stress and attention to detail will be your best teacher. Healthy fear gets the job done. American industry rules!

[@Teluric2]

What kind of detectors?

[@dustinf11]

It's not machining, but I once routed a new cavity for a battery box in a $12,000 custom, hand built, one-off Gibson les Paul. Pretty nerve racking, but I got it done and they were happy.

[@insanepolarbear]

Most expensive part I worked on was an outer shell of a next gen torpedo. We were tasked to produce three of these prototype parts. Around 15,000 dollars a peice. Most nerv wrecking part were running the program for the first time. It turned out fine in the end.

[@easttexasengineering3489]

I think what he meant to say was Titans of cnc said kenametal was the best insert to use because they pay us for the advertisement.. we’re ok, The last box of kenametal CNNG-432 I bought said made in China ..

[@Shirehi]

That's hilarious you got scammed with some fake kennametal inserts 😂😂😂 brother there's 3 companies that produce the best tools on the market and those 3 companies are counterfeited just like Jordan basketball shoes and gucci handbags. Kennametal is for most applications overkill price wise but that's why it's so good. You get what you pay for. Don't buy off ebay next time LOL

[@easttexasengineering3489]

@@Shirehi No, I didn't get scammed. ( you simply know nothing) This box came from the Kennametal Rep that visits out machine shop weekly. Be careful what you say, We don't run a garage shop here, we have vendors from all over visit us. Ask kennametal where did they move the boring bar plant that was in California. I would love to see if they tell you the truth. I will give you a hint, it's just below the lower 48. However, you probably have ANY kennemetal contact just some know it all on youtube.

[@dominic6634]

Use to machine synthetic sapphire. You do it alot in optical machining. Fun stuff

[@unclelar53]

As a retired machinist/toolmaker/programmer I can say that, after 50 years in the biz, by far the worst material I have ever worked with was Monel. It is super tough and "sticky" as well, lol.

[@maxwright4387]

your small crew took approx $30 million taxpayer dollars for two years shop labor and all we get is a 5 minute video that doesn't discuss anything? are you also the guy that sold them the $200k toilets in the statehouse? bet the actual work is classified huh? congratulations, you're breaking new ground in the "charge as much as possible" class.

[@AdamosDad]

Life advice that everyone should know but few do.

[@christianyoungblood6303]

Most expensive part ive dealt with was about 80k maybe not millions but the stress of that alone had me paranoid. Dealing with Inconel 718 and Monel was a part that took them 6 months to create for me to not being able to say no a job. I quoted it and risked it for the learning part not even money involved. Alot learned did it without error. Big win

[@bstives58]

A $50k piece of tantalum that we had to hydroform in multiple steps...scary as hell

[@HITTAGAME]

Ive worked on and machined dimensions on Mold components worth anywhere from $200,000-$1M as an apprentice! I did crash at times but you gotta learn some way😂

[@ecocrime8957]

Of Chinese version of this thing - cost by 299.99. sold by amazon. Lost in the woods)

[@Based_Dept.]

I like how they showed footage of them making the part...

[@Necronaut]

Exactly, the comments are just machinists bragging about how expensive their part was. Meanwhile we didn't see any part being made.

[@Keith_Mikell]

10m bottom blocks for ALCOA when i was an apprentice machinist. The program ran for 23 hours. You changed cutters and blew chips. NO coolant. Also have did a bunch of inconel shit. I have a piece on my dresser. All we used was kennametal. They are local to me.

[@jerisbrisk7519]

While it might not be possible due to infosec and clearance, it would have been nice to see the finished part. Or even the original billet. I don’t think we saw anything close to a 14’ diameter billet even though it was touted. 😅

[@thomas82311]

in 50years u can theres 0 chance

[@williamlee7371]

2 year forging, I'd bet it'll be some huge structure for high temp heat/steam generator from the application and materials given

[@supercat380]

Titan, you deserve the best jobs because you're among the very best machining engineers!!!!!!

[@PDZ1122]

What bullshit. Corporate welfare for military contractors. No chunk of metal costs 12 million. Certainly not monel. Your tax dollars at work.

[@steveb9270]

That's why we machine our most expensive parts manually ,

[@zac2877]

subscribed cuz this is freaking gnarly awesome