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Minute 23:06 "...enjoy what you do?" that ear to ear smile says it all.

His attitude is perfect. I dig that shop.

What I love is how the owner is really into innovating his shop to get the best results unlike some other shop owners who complain about buying anything thinking everything lasts forever. You can't expect to stay in business if you don't think and plan for the future. Much respect! 5th Axis vises are amazing to use and a great bang for your buck!

It's so interesting to see the mind of a true businessman who treats money as a capability and not as a scorekeeper.

Nice to see that in the USA. We need much more precision manufacturing like that. Awesome!

Chris is so cool! He really does want to help support the small guys too. gave me a tour just before John you came through and helped me out with some new process for a new part were working on. So Cool! Love there Fixturing!

wanted to go to bed, how am i going to explain my boss that i am late again?

Just purchased my first 5th Axis package because of this video and the 5th Axis is amazing! video. Thanks for the info John!

Unbelievable ! Thank you John and the 5th Axis team for your generosity !!!

This was amazing, thank you for sharing buddy!

Your shop tours are great and provide a lot of invaluable insight. Being in automation myself I always strive for gaining more experience. Usually you get that through your customers and the problems they have. With your videos I get different approaches delivered right to my desk and while sipping my morning coffee. This video with 5th Axis was especially instructive (shout-out to them). Thanks a lot.

These guys have made a bunch of stuff for me in the past. Great shop.

This guy has the mind set that not many high ups have in company’s nowadays. He needs to do conferences for shop management.

12:46 if they would buy that kid a height check he could verify those blanks were the right size a lot faster and more accurate. :-) Very cool shop and the fact they use their stuff to develop and test it in real world applications makes sure you are getting something that will perform as you expect.

Well what a nice visit and share for all of us to see learn and be along with you in our neck of the woods, wow we read Mikron (favorite from this video) in the description. Thank you John. Lance & Patrick.

Amazing tour, lots of ideas to add to how I am setting up our new high school machine shop. One thing that we never gave much thought to in the past is end of day clean up. Obviously we are not a production shop or job shop, we are a teaching shop. Hearing about the burden that the wax has on machines was a new concept and watching the machine operators clean off between jobs brought up some new ideas on how to keep the machines cleaned between classes. The bigger you get the more stuff there is to do (maintenance wise.) Keep up the great work John.

this is by far your best tour yet. awesome machines, awesome tools and a awesome tour guide.

Really cool to see how automation can actually be implemented. Thanks for the great video!

If I was a young man ( Student ) I work on a lathe. To earn money for the study. I'm familiar with a lathe since then , but what I see here it's amazing. Greetings from Germany

I love 5th axis products I use them daily on a robo drill to make extended mag-wells and rmr sight plates. They are fast accurate and rugged work holding solution. Thank you so much for doing this video your channel is awesome and now got to see where the tools I use to make the tools I make were made.

Wicked tour. Love the setup capabilities there

Another great one. This took me two sittings as I didn't want to miss any detail.

Erowa system was awesome to see. Super keen to see what you do with your robodrill. great tour as always

Wow John, that was a great shop tour. Extremely fun and informative to watch.It appears that Chris and company has really done a fantastic job building up their business. I was super impressed and I really appreciate You sharing the tour with all of us!

amazing shop tour thanks NYC CNC + 5th Axis, one of my favorites so far!

Wow great tour John One of the beat I’ve seen real grass roots engaging concepts, some good learnings 👌🏻👍🏻

Wonderful tour!!!! Thanks for sharing. John

what an incredible shop... and a very knowledgeable boss.. i see why they are so sucessful forsure.

I live 30min north of their shop in Escondido. Awesome shop.

I drooled over that Hardinge. Super precision manual lathe I ran a tainwanese clone and it was my favourite manual machine I ever ran. The real thing must be amazing Funny that with the Mikron and Hermle cnc machines, that was the standout machine for me

Thank you for the awesome video

This will change the world and the accuracy of parts we interface with everyday. I cannot wait to see what the future brings...will we all have 5 axis machines and deal on open source info to build whatever we want?

Awesome job shop tour! Amazing shop and the chap clearly knows his business with high knowledge of machining. We use 5th Axis vices even though these vices have some problems we do like to use them for OP1 only. It's just a pity that these can't be used for OP2 as they jaws lift up :-(. Never mind that great shop, awsome machines and great chap. Love it

So that is where those come from!

Wow, what a great tour. I can’t even begin to speculate on how much that firm has invested in those machines. The owner certainly seems to enjoy what he is doing.

Mind Blowing stuff >>> Makes me feel so damn Jurassic as an older Turner Machinist !!!

Very interesting John.

I've got my "RUN CNC" shirt! Awesome!

Awesome vlog very educational well explained thanks for sharing great clear video

I love that he touched on the buzzwords. Sorry John... I know you love the buzzwords.

Its new experience...great

Fantastic vid. Thank You.

we need a lot more of these shops in America and in bigger scale.

FYI, I’m in the process of getting an Erowa Compact 80 to automate inspection between 2 CMMs to keep up with our massive production requirements for LTAs.

Really cool!

I just ordered a vise and rock lock! In ready!

so stinking cool

Awesome

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Amazing.....

Aaaanddd the rest of todays productivity is out the window!

Nice RUN CNC T-Shirt!

Very cool dude and a very nice business he's built! I'm curious why he has so many different machine builders in his shop. We tend to settle on one as it keeps maintenance, repairs and training way simpler. It almost looks as though he just bought the best deal every time he needed a machine.

As a Swiss person it's nice to see you use so many of our machines. What do you like about them?

Very cool. Have to disagree with the idea of just in time as a buzzword though. It might not work in a particular industry but it is a massive innovation that has unquestionably enabled the internet economy as it exists today.

Mh, why no coolant on the wax parts to contain the chips in the fluid? There must be a reason, can you explain it to us?

The guy said they dont use AC being near the ocean. How do they do such precise work like to tenths outside the EDM room?

Cool company! But such a machine tool zoo, on the other hand, experience can be gained from such a variety of machine tools ...

so, at 26:22 there is a clear cut on the video, demo effect perhaps ?

Noticed some NDA/confidential parts being blurred out around 17:00.

just a cool video

They really need to make their vices stronger. We have some and pretty much all of them are broken or the bolt to do them up is rounded off

Just spotted the Tee shirt, RUN CNC very funny.

Bud...your story has been awesome...recently got back into the shop myself...all manual and having a blast. Do still very much like to see your stuff on cnc and automation....would like to see ya get into high end EDM machining so we can know whats goin on in that world....and would really like to own a standard sized, dishwasher safe, durable coffee cup with your youtube logo on it. Automation is kinda like a law...it is truly only as good as the people using it to provide quality goods at an affordable rate.. If you wipe out jobs take control of an entire industry that all other industries rely on and then price your mass produced mounted rex cut deburring bobs for 8 bucks each instead of 8 for 20...you make freedom, automation, and more seem stupid...and currency abuse, media abuse, and totalitarian government seem reasonable....in which case you should lose your butt the same as your greedy spoilt butt would have for the rest of us. When the tooling is paid for the price must come down huge but stay high enough to provide maintenance and growth...all the while being potentially undercut, and or made obsolete....doing all that innocently without trapping, tricking, or forcing the community or others...is what is physically required to actually get the job done truly......like the young buck who is an awesome fast worker but who is unsafe or sloppy....the industry leader also may take or give self credit without actually earning it.... Failure to respect it has destroyed every nation and industry that ever existed...i suspect.

How dare you not showing us the HSC 55 linear ;)

33:50 is there any reason the programmer's explanation didn't make it into the edited video?🤣🤣🤣

If you want an automation system that is user friendly check out ABB robotics. Those robots are so user friendly compared to the Fanuc systems. They also will make turn key systems were as other robotic manufacturers will only sell you the robot.

Think you missed some blurring at 17:30.

These CNC should are keeping American manufacturing alive. For the last 5yrs we have been ordering more robots vs being outpaced by China by a wide margin. The margin is still great but manufacturing is at least not flatlining like it was.

I like this guy.

34:11 - Dr.Disrespect on the wall? Ehhh...

What are the wax parts for?

John you gotta nail these audio issues once and for all.

Just in Time is a goal to work towards, not really a perfect "push button make 1 part" thing. Set up time and safety stock is in the formulas.

8:00 Sooo...if you're familiar with wax on a surfboard. Noooo...I am from Ohio. 😂 So, do you have a machine big enough to shape some surfboards in your spare time? Guess they also run wax castings for skateboard axles.

I live just north of the shop.

I'm betting they run that one cell with the door open all the time.

Chris kept saying "an extra decimal place". So, is he talking tenths or hundredths?

Great shop and great products!

RUN CNC... hooooow theeeeee F%#?ING COOOOOOL T-SHIRT 😮😮😮😮😮😮 Where did you get that????

I hope they sell those shirts!

Couldn't you keep the wax away from the machine with some kind of air curtain maybe?

I want this T-shirt RUN CNC

San Diego, CA can you imagine the regulatory hoops a business like that has to jump through and then there's taxes local,state,Federal?

I wesh i can apply to your company

Unbelievable how open minded this guy is. Yer sure take a look at that. Amazing open shop.

Wondering why no air conditioning in the shop? JIM

Why are they machining wax impellers?

Heremly

Instead of wax for tests - try plastic. Some plastics are solvable. Talk to a plastic supplier.

21:33 "They can dream in their "little ivory towers"..........F*CKIN' AMEN BROTHER!!!!!!! I grew up working in REAL machine shops,ALL MANUAL,then we added a NC,then a Hybrid or 2,then a CNC or 2,then these guys did EXACTLY as he said,they come in and said "Hey,Let's do JIT,etc.",2 shops I worked for LOST money investing in their Bullsh!t.It may work for SOME shops,but NOT all.

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20:44 She mad 😲

interviewing there tomorrow

If you close your eyes and listen you would swear it’s Jordan Peterson speaking.

When...you are get used to push your own business, with thoughts of machines that take action? you need to hire people with more capability than you(in terms of thinking),so your efforts would slow a bit. If else got to keep putting an eye overthere always!!!!

Get any other robot but Fanuc. I used to program these robots for General Motors, who only lets this make of robots in their plant. The user interface looks 20 years old, clunky to programming and some of the English questionable. There are a lot better boots from Kuka or ABB.

Please learn to pronounce Hermle appropriately. It is not Hermla or Hermlee it is Hermlay. It's like pronouncing Porsche as Porsh.

FIRST!

Tip: Film what the person wants to show you, not the persons themselves. Makes them uncomfortable 7:09