We've got to say getting to be the first workshop in the world with our hands on this arc spray system was a real privilege! Huge thanks to MSSA and Metallisation Ltd for giving us the chance to unbox this new machine and put it through its paces. This thing is packed with innovative features and we are pretty impressed so far, but we can't wait to hear what YOU think! Let us know your questions or any cool applications you can imagine for the i450 in the comments below!😎👇 🔔Hit the notification bell so you never miss our new weekly video. ✍Leave a comment below with your questions or thoughts. 🔓Get Early Access & Ad Free videos in our Patreon community: www.patreon.com/cuttingedgeengineering 🛒Check out all our CEE Merch here: www.ceeshop.com.au
I was expecting to hear a black country accent, Dudley is 5 miles from me, I'd heard of the company since late 1970s, I thought they only did in house work? Bosting Job.
When a major company in the industry chooses You and your shop for a world-wide premier, you know you are doing great things. Glad the rest of the world is catching up and taking notice!
I hope you’re on commission K&K, because I think you just sold 10,000 of those machines. I’ve never been so pleased to watch a 30 minute infomercial before in my life. Amazing tech amazingly well presented thank you.
In the US. I have a Metco metal sprayer that's probably a 50 year old design. It uses oxy/act to melt the wire and a single wire feed. The arc sprayer you have is the best design, I've seen. Wish I had one. I had 2 ex-navy tugs that had zinc coating applied 20 years before. They had no rust except where lines continually rubbed. I bought the Metco to maintain the coating. Later I had a small shipyard that mainly built and repaired larger commercial fishing boats. After sand blasting, I used a zinc coating inside and out, except for diesel tanks. That was many years ago, but those boats are the most rust free in the fleet. I'm retired, but still do some touch up jobs. Out of my usual line of work, I repaired 17 cylinders of a large printing press that someone had run a wrench all the way thru. I found I could lay as little as .0005" and repaired the cylinders without disassembly and machining. Metal spray is a great tool. I watch your channel because you do excellent work. When faced with an unexpected problem, you always do a proper job. No quick fixes. I'm amazed how much money and time is saved by remanufacturing cylinders rather that buying from the OEM. I bet your customers are amazed, too. You have a nice shop.
I had my car back axle zinc sprayed by a company that does our local fishing fleet. It will outlast the car and probably future car(s) it gets used on.
I used to work for Heidelberg (printing machines among other stuff for the printing industri). I have seen quite a few machines being wrecked the way you described it …. This way some of them could have saved.
It's some smart marketing from MSSA, is what it is. CEE is a brilliant place to showcase this machine because of how many other shops are going to see it. It's prob worth it to just give CEE a machine in exchange for showing this thing.
Hi Kurtis, Kare and Homie, it just goes to show what respect the industry has for you that they give you the first machine in Aus. And truely well deserved.
Hello. I remember how in 1995 they galvanized a 530m long railway bridge using this method. Big combustion generators, an incredible noise and a man dressed as an alien with a gun and a blue bubble at the end. I rode my bike to observe it and was delighted. To this day, the bridge has no corrosion spots. Greetings from Poland.
As a dentist who loves winding down at the end of the week watching your videos I’m so happy to see how you are adapting to the new teeth! A smile to match the awesome work you do every day.
Ha ha love the new look. Well done. Iv always been curious about the adhesion of those metal spraying machines. I'd be interested if anyone has done a macro? Just for the curiosity. Cheers Kev.
Being selected to test this tool first is a compliment to you and your skill. So happy to see you and your wife get the recognition we all feel you deserve ☺️
It's a complement to the videography on the channel. The reason they want CEE to test it is because of the .75 million subscribers, and the reason for that is how easy it is to watch the channel. A recommendation from Adam Savage didn't hurt, either.
You can put this towards it if you decide to purchase , and or if you need something else or have lunch on me. It's just good to see some younger folks seeming determined to prove me wrong. THANK YOU
Metallisation is based a couple of miles up the road from me....nice to see the UK still has some excellent manufacturers and products used around the world!
As a carpenter & joiner I quickly realised you could only cut wood shorter but never longer, it seems Curtis has found a way to put material back on!!! Awesome advantage!
Hey, there from North Carolina, US. Watching Homeless look for “presents,” made me think you ought to do what we did with a dog: wrap an old toy in a box so he gets the “thrill” of tearing it open. Our dog loved it and never knew the difference!
800,000 subscribers, a great channel, and great video work gets the notice of manufactures who want the exposure and we get to go along for the ride. What an awesome machine and again another awesome video. Cheers....
Kurtis definitely has a cool wow factor to him. 800 K says it all. I’ll be here for 1 million. Maybe win the(Kutis raffle ??) raffle to travel over to see and work in shop😂
Not only that, most them actually watch the videos. Unlike a machining channel with 560k subs, where less than 10% watch his videos. Hissssss hissssss 🤣🤣
@@gabrielecossettini2923 I pity the poor fool that breaks into that shop when Kurtis is using that sprayer... "Why yes Officer, we did have an Intruder, he's that terrified looking statue over there, no need for handcuffs, [starts forklift] where's your truck?" 😄😁😆😅😂🤣
I have 7 years of experience on that technology. Stainless steel, Bronze, alloy and ceramic. I always used that in Cylider rod. Even bearing hausing, bearing set, and cylinder liner.
Pretty awesome machine. My Grandfather would have been impressed moving from powder to that. He was a machinist for 50 years, been gone quite a while. Thanks for the great videos.
The Friday arvo CEE video is part of my weekly unwind. When I hear Curtis's dulcet tones, Karen's cute little noises, and of course Homey's snuffling, all is right with the world. Always puts me in the right mood for Friday night. Long may it continue. Cheers everyone. 🙂
Having used and machined parts using the old tech I can see this being a huge update for your business. Couldn't be field tested by a more deserving business. Continued success for you and your family. Best wishes from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, USA.
Congrats on being one of the first in the world to try a new product. I love seeing innovative machines being used that can improve on older processes. I run a pulse laser cleaner in my workshop and I know how much better it is over traditional stripping processes.
Sir, you are one of the most talented metal workers ive ever watched ,your skills are beyond any other guy for sure so keep up the great content,watchin you already for two years now.
Nice to be able to see brand new technology put into service in a real world situation. Thanks for the demo, and thanks for the video. Always a pleasure.
With flash new toys like that arriving at the end of the week who wouldn't want to stay at work on the weekend. Not sure whether that handpiece and what comes out of it when operating looks like it is out of Ghost Busters or Star Trek. It is certainly futuristic and mystical at the same time.
Dude I love your channel ! You’re an excellent tech ! Learn a lot from you and I feel I’m learning it the right way much success to you Curtis and your family cheers my Australian cousins lol
What an awesome video! I am a machinist now, but I used to spray welder at a bearing repair company a decade ago. This video brought me back to my spraying days! The unit I used was the same style of unit but way older. Do yourself a favor and spray anti spatter spray on everything around the job including the chuck. That way all over spray comes off real easy. Good job Kurtis!
One of the few unboxing/testing demos I've watched. I normally won't because they're something i already have/don't need or it's common technology. This being revoltionary made all the difference.
I was always taught to use the 7 Ps ie PRIOR PREPARATION and PLANNING PREVENTS PISS POOR PERFORMANCE the world of technology is amazing Peter W Melbourne
Bit disappointed that Kurtis didn't unwrap it like the dishlicker does. Give his new choppers a workout with lots of head shakes and growling. New toys are always nice.
Very nice machine for the shop. I have used the Thermion " BoilerMaster" and the "BridgeMaster" Arc Spray machines for Zinc applications on Cathodic protection restoration projects for Coastal Bridges in Oregon, USA. Thermion has a compact drive that is portable and operates on Welding leads to the work area. The Transformer is remote, and the drive unit is as small as a portable welder.
We have a Metallisation machine in our workplace, very similar to this one just with a robot arm and aluminium wire for anti corrosion instead. Very good machine😄
This is some pricey equipment and I guess Abom won't do so much spray welding that it's worth it for him. Kurtis on the other hand probably uses it more than once a week.
OMG!!!! It looks like a weapon from Star Wars. What an awesomely versitle machine. Is there overspray? Homie always seems so happy. When I die I want to come back as a dog and live with you guys.
3 . . . 2 . . . 1 . . . BLASTOFF! Thanks again to both of you for launching me(and so many others) into the weekend so peacefully. You have become a fixture in my week. Take care of yourselves. Best regards, Alan Tomlinson Berlin, Germany
I find it awesome to see where the shop is now from a few years ago. Seeing you adding new to you equipment, and seeing how every new machine improves your results. I love seeing a company growing through hard work and dedication like you two have done.
I've been interested in arc spraying for a long time now and having recently joined your channel,was pleasantly surprised to see you've got a new system to do it. It looks a very capable unit, and for the type of work I envisage requiring it, it may well suit my requirements. Thanks for showing us how it works and how much cleaner than the old system it is too. Thanks Curtis for letting us see you trying this unit out. From UK.
@@EmiSuperTrans71 I know what you mean, but British innovation will never die IMO. Look at medicine for instance, seems there's a new discovery almost every week in Britain. I think Rolls Royce is still a leader in turbines too.
I personally never knew such a machine existed! This is just awesome watching this thing work and how its controlled. Who would have ever believed you could just blast some steel with some Sparks to get new metal to stick?! This is just amazing.. thank you cutting edge engineering for showing me such an awesome tool!
Morning all !! Sat here in the garden, sun just about over the roof next door, Tea and a bacon and egg sandwich in hand. Maybe a doughnut for later....and a CCE vid, life is good!
@@anthonyj7989 See....When you say Australia to 99% of ppl....Blizzards are not the first thing that comes to mind. Kinda like the UK and sunshine. Wrap up warm mate and add some brandy to the tea !!
If you got a bundle of cables, hoses, or anything of that nature, cable ties are not the best way to keep them organized. Instead, use a length of hydraulic hose spiral wrap. It will keep the bundle tight together, as well as being stiff enough to help prevent sharp bends while moving the bundle around.
I used to work as a welder repair technician and what we found to work best was to run stuff like that in 2 inch blue layflat. Spiral wrap is great stuff, but anything more than a metre it's going in the bin. Who's got the time for that?
@@orangemonkeykiller Layflat? Are you talking about basically a small firefighter hose? Yeah, I can see the advantage, and those particular hoses are rather robust.
The power cables and air hose are run inside a robust supplies pack cover (like layflat). The cable tied items are the wire feed conduits and flexible drive cable that synchronises the feeder and the pistol drive unit. These items do wear over time and the conduits benefit from an occasional clean so most customers prefer to have them strapped / tied outside of the main supplies pack. We’ve tried many alternatives over the years but customers tend to always revert to cable ties… and the customer is always right 😊
This machine looks incredible. As soon as he turned it on, I was like WHOAAA!!! This machine is going to be a real time saver so you dont have to build up a weld, wire brush it down, build up a weld, wire brush, weld, wire, and now all you do is pull out the liquid hot metal spraygun, and then clean it up. You should definitely put your initials on the wall with that thing haha
My Wife used this instead of her hair dryer on accident, and she is now part of the 'X-Men' Just look for the woman with the metal head and that is my wife. You would think we would save a lot of money on hair care products, but now we just use a lot of WD-40 and metal polish. Cleaning her ears is more like caring for a rifle. She wanted her eyebrows done but we can't find and auto body that will take a grinder to her face. The kids love her all the same, and they love to put fridge magnets on her head. Last week she started to get cross-eyed and we had to degauss her from the neck up. The kids also leave lots of fingerprints on her, but we just polish or buff them out.
That’s new I’ve only seen the powder medal sprayer which the base metal needs to be heated before applying . Neat to see something different using wire spraying. So a preheat is recommended. So cool.
For better adhesion, you might want to thread the surface and shot blast the surface. And when you machine it on lathe after coating, it's better to start from middle to sides. By this way you can prevent from side cracks on the coating. You can coat stainless steel, copper, brass, zinc, aluminum etc. By optimizing current and wire feed you can have less porosity or rough surface. And also by using cored wire (like metco 8222) you can obtain pretty hard surfaces.
Metallisation are in Peartree Lane, Dudley, an industrial area I'm familiar with. I used to go to a supplier there to collect electrical spares for control systems on water treatment works! Loads of memories of my trips to, and through, that area.
Hey Karen, nice job capturing all the chaos of the techs and hubby. And of course, nice work as usual, Kurtis. You perfectionist ... you. I could watch you work all day.
Amazing machine. Right away i wondered how it could atomize the wire because traditional metal spray involves using a powdered form of metal. This machine is revolutionary and had to have taken a few years to get it from paper to performance. Being from way outside your industry i fumble with notion of cost being from $40,000 to $110,000 USD. I like how the gun can pull that remaining 10 meters of wire through the cables. Kurtis, it looks like you can employ a basic rod/rail to move the gun left/right. The rail will help maintain distance from finish surface, make holding proper angle easy along with proper distance from finish surface. The gun has a silver colored metal collar between the body of the gun and it's black funnel where the wires protrude. slide the gun left/right when spraying by resting the silver colored collar on the rail....
Was looking at the power unit thinking it looked like an XMT, realized it was when I saw it say Miller Electric in the top corner! High quality machine!
Hello CEE team, greetings from Belgium. Starting a Friday with a new machine is always a nice start of the weekend 😀, Being selected for testing & demoing a brand new machine in AU by Metal Spray Supplies Australia is a great recognition of CEE. Would be nice to know if after a in-depth technical & capability evaluation and overall TOC calculation if CEE would keep the machine or not, even when you are looking into a new arc spray solution.
Dear Curtis,As usual, your demo and then your knowledge and experience of metals and finishes etc just shows the professional approach you have to the situation at hand. Well done,
This system looks great. I used a Metco oxy acetylene wire spray system at TAA at Essendon Airport in the 70's to the 90's, building up worn gas turbine parts and shafts. We also used the Metco wire sprayer to spray zinc and aluminium coatings onto the fibreglass Douglas DC9 tail cones. It was an effective but very noisy process.
Super. Every boys dream - an impressive working tool that just happens to look like something from a Starwars film. Now you just have to get the Storm Trooper armour and helmet as protection against splashes and fumes.
It looks like nice bit of kit! Have you thought about making an automatic feed for it yet, like you can do with MIG welding on the Sir Mechanical? I’m a little surprised they don’t use an argon mix instead of air. The sparks are at least some of your steel burning up in the atmosphere. Things are never as simple as I think they’re going to be though.
I love the timing of the shots, you always manage to capture everything that is happening in such an interesting way and just when I've seen enough and want to move on you've already beaten me to it. It's truly an art editing a video to keep people engaged and I just want you to know that you do it very well 🙂 Keep up the good work
Never knew of twin wire metal spraying, excellent process. Great demonstration and explanation both, hope Karen is happy with something new to video 📹 😊. Great addition to the shop.
I bought a similar system for a company I worked for back in 2002. Used it for all kinds of repairs. It would spray many kinds of wire , from brass to a chrome wite that was 35c. Tried and true system. Doesn't do well long-term unless the repair is all the way around the shaft. No key ways or cuts. Basically a sleeve.
