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@connorkapoor What are you currently using to remove the tree?

Once the shell build is complete, we move to burnout and casting. The whole process is called casting, but this is actually the shortest part. We melt metal and pour it into the ceramic mold we created around the printed tree. We cut off the part from the sprue, clean up the gating locations, and get ready for final inspection and shipping! (🧵5/6)

Custom Cast Steel Pulley, 1040 Steel From a STEP file to a cast metal part in Days. How do we do it? A Thread 🧵 (1/6)

@bscholl How are you cutting this??

We have 150,000lbs of powder metal “Boomallloy” billet, to be forged into the highest performance turbine rotors. It wouldn’t all fit in this picture.

@SkinnyfatTony How did you get the spikes not to pierce the bags?

I've put robots in large manufacturing companies for many different industries, but one of the most notable that I liked the best - we put a palletizing robot in a barn at a local bird feed company to stack 50lb bags of feed. The farmer called and said "my daughter's back is getting sore, we need a solution" - so we made a solution. It worked out great, he was a fun guy to work with, that was 10 years ago and he's still running it today. #fanucrobotics

@StressedBizGuy @shawngorham Many such cases rn

@shawngorham I’m under LOI for a manufacturing business that was doing over $6M annually less than 7 years ago. Owner checked out. Moved away. Tried to manage remotely. Didn’t work slow decline. Basically getting the business for a little more than inventory value.

Talk to 2 business owners in their 60's this week Owner 1: owns a framing business. 10 employees. he has a terminal illness and has 1-3 years to live. says he is working until he dies. Owner 2: he has 30 guys and they are slow. he said his yard will rent for $16k a month, which is more than he needs, and he isnt putting any money into the business to support it. (he did in 09) he is thinking about shutting the thing down. Many businesses are having the same internal conversations with themselves, they just aren't on X

@EV_Trapper Everett Industries. All abrasive chop saws. Made with the right power and built to be repaired and last 25+ years.

@ayingerbrau88 What chop saws do you have? What brand?

Ok guys, is there a faster way for me to do this? Im cutting the ends flush, then ill square them up in the lathe. These are alloy steel rods that we are going to repair. A band saw didnt cut them fast enough, what about a chop saw?

@EV_Trapper @SlickOneI These are often super duper under powered and can easily ruin the material with heat build up.

@SlickOneI Ok nice. Good recommendation, thank you!

@sendcutsend Abrasive cutting will damage the lens!

put the GoPro in the CNC machine... marketing gone wild

Niche little American manufacturing story. Most turbine blades and vanes start as a round bar of superalloy. These are cast in steel tubes, then pressed out as ~45” ingots ranging from 2-7” in diameter. Every investment casting mold needs a precise charge weight, and the typical industry tolerance is +3/-0 lbs. We built a fully automated abrasive saw that cuts these ingots to +0.25/-0 lbs. It scans the bar on the infeed and adjusts cut length on the fly to hit the requested weight. Auto loading, full dust containment, outfeed weighing, and marking with weight, heat number, or whatever traceability the foundry wants. Gas turbines, jet engines, and rockets all run on cast superalloy parts. The grid buildout and the defense ramp both come back to foundries cutting a staggering amount of superalloys. We build these machines in Warren, Ohio for the foundries doing that work, and we think the equipment behind American hard tech should be American too.

@zanehengsperger hell yeah

todays full truckload came with quite an epic decal

@SkinnyfatTony I learned how to wire controls the same way. We had our electrician quit mid job so I jumped from marketing to wiring and learned on the fly. Ended up doing it and marketing for a year before we refilled the role. Probably my favorite working year.

Many years ago my Controls Engineer left the company. I had a system that needed built, so I learned to code. Im a mechanical engineer, so learning electrical controls on the spot was a little painful, but I'm glad I did it. I used an Allen Bradley Compactguardlogix PLC, Panelview HMI, all integrated into a new Fanuc Arcmate R30iB+ control. Never too old to keep learning! #robotics

@zodiaceng @BuildBoost I like to imagine the total cost of this behavior across the entire defense industry lol

@BuildBoost That’s where you just say okay, divide NRE, add to unit cost then keep it on there forever.

Remembering the head of eng of a well-known defense co ripping into me in front of his team because I separated out NRE (per our policy), condescending that "normal companies build that into the unit cost" except he wouldn't give me a quantity commitment

That’s Mar-M002 getting shredded by the saw btw. ~20 seconds to cut a 4 inch ingot.

My poor GoPro. We’re torture testing a new abrasive wheel on one of our investment casting charge cutting systems(@SaferCut ). I need marketing content so the brave GoPro goes in the soup.

@hunterlanier We just got a VF-4 AND a VFOE for 1800 bucks… zero alarms, everything works, and they cleaned up great.

Is it really that easy if you have the space and power

@SkinnyfatTony Greetings! Manufacturing X is the place to be!

@ayingerbrau88 This is awesome. Howdy neighbor!!

I can't believe my account followers have almost tripled in a few days.... I am working on follow backs, it's going to be slow lol. I had no idea there was much of anything on X except for political fighting. I will keep posting more of my content to keep that crap out of my timeline, and maybe yours too! Here's a line of Fanuc M900 and R2000 robots that my late robotics company refurbished - PM serviced, painted, run tested, re-purposed and re-sold. #fanucrobotics #robotics #industrialrobots

@JoshuaSteinman Howmet’s 50,000ton press in Cleveland can do it.

Request for startup

@zanehengsperger And then they tell you a date as a maybeeee….. then it gets pushed around for 2 weeks because they “can’t get the truck, truck cancelled, they sold their big forklift” or some other ridiculous excuse

how the hell does it take 4 days to quote moving 2 machines 30 minutes away who is building america’s rigging company with not 4 days for a quote

@emm0sh @aegrabs It’s so amazing too. Everything is so deeply connected and accessible from anywhere.

@aegrabs it’s their ERP that should interest you

i wonder which cad software spacex uses