The Mind-Blowing Machines that Stamp Millions of Metal Parts - Smarter Every Day 288

This series is going to be extremely cool... and there will be opportunities to physically hold things that are manufactured during the series. The purpose of making these things is to make jobs in America. I would appreciate it if you would consider signing up for the email list. I promise not to spam you. www.smartereveryday.com/email-list

One thing that I love about Destin and smartereveryday is that he shows the exact same amount of interest and respect in everything and to everyone. He treats everyone from ceos down to low level works with the same respect, and give the same amount of attention and interest to stuff as big as rockets to stuff as small as single parts

As a manufacturing engineer, I am very excited about this series

My favourite thing about this video was seeing Destin's unfailingly polite manner with everyone he encountered, introducing himself and speaking to the people working while this filming is going on around them. I've sat working while someone brought a film crew past me and it was kinda awkward not being engaged fully, but talked about within earshot, feeling like a zoo animal. That and Destin always seems to have the right question to ask next, to distil this person's decades of experience into something the lay person can understand. Great video.

I'm not American, but there is something really special about US manufacturing. I like the people and culture, the tools, all of it. Thanks for this series, looking forward to more.

As a retired technical instructor, I wish I'd had a video of this quality to introduce students to die design and stamping processes. Very well done.

Dear Destin, I just finished my apprenticeship as a toolmaker a month ago. My profession is to build such tools that you showed us in the very beginning of the video. I am so honored that You shed some light on this field of work! It is incredibly fun and challenging to manufacture pieces in such tight tolerances out of hardened materials that are difficult to machine - there are parts for tools like this that have a tolerance window of just a few 10000s of an inch (0.001mm in metric), and they are to be expected to be perfectly right-angled at the same time.

As a mechanical engineering student from Germany it is really interesting to see the production and manufacturing technics of another country. I`m really stoked to see all the kinds of production systems from 3d laserprinting and all the other additive methods to CNC. Really happy about this upcoming deep dive. This already amazing channel got even better :) Greetings from Germany!

Hey Destin, I’m a Canadian high school student and I have had the opportunity to take many manufacturing classes, our school shop is fortunate to be one of the best outfitted school shops, and I have an amazing teacher who shows the importance of precision machining and being prepared for the future of machining, we learn full CNC, CAD and Plasmacutting operations through immersive projects. Our school also runs a electric race car completely designed and fabricated in house that helps to show the importance of precision and quality in large scale projects. So it’s really interesting to see just how applicable these skills are in industrial manufacturing

Cody the programmer is an inspiration. Overcoming obstacles, investing in his future, and making a big change after taking a chance.

My father was a T/D machinist for 35+ years and this brought a tear to my eye, I was in the Navy and the career I found when I got out I have to use a series 1 Bridgeport and a Monarch 10ee lathe, and I can almost hear his voice or hand on my shoulder as I operate those machines. I LOVE THIS SERIES!

Thank you for not just showing the process, but spending time with the people behind it, especially discussing how they got there and how they developed their skills. The machines are cool, but It’s the people that make this amazing!

I love the way you show up with enthusiasm to people who don't necessarily consider their job interesting. I see it alot in your videos where people seem hesitant to get into the details because they assume it's not that interesting to an audience, but your enthusiasm and engaged questions prompt them in a way that always reveals their depth of passion and knowledge.

As a Machinist, CNC programmer, and welder, I am extremely excited for this series

It's so nice to see people making stuff that has a clear purpose, all of the workers seemed cool, down to earth and polite people. How different from a typical office culture these days. Another classic from Destin, thank you for sharing your passion for knowledge!

I'm really glad to see a series like this. YouTube has a lot of edutainment content about the sciences, the arts, humanities, engineering... but the skilled trades are something I don't get to learn about. You really do get smarter every day.

I'm a CNC programmer, I assign toolpaths to machine parts used in progressive dies such as the ones shown in this video. The average age of our shop is finally going down. We have a lot of old timers reaching retirement. The youngest toolmaker (the guys that put together and test the dies) was 55 until a year ago. Now we have 3 guys under 30. The age gap is crazy.

The importance of this video and the coming series cannot be understated! You're doing some great work here, Destin!

This is so cool. Building real-world products seems the height of prestige to me. I never understood why, as a kid 25 years ago, we were discouraged from going into trades like these. Schools encouraged more hands-off fields, but surely you need be just as smart and creative (if not more) to work in a practical field than to do a desk job. My dad and grandfather worked in shops like this, I think, and they always seemed embarrassed for some reason, never wanting to talk about their work. I sure wish they'd have let me shadow them as part of a bring-your-son-to-work experience or whatnot.

This was a lot of fun and interesting for me. I'm completely ignorant when it comes to manufacturing and, like you alluded to, understand only additive manufacturing. This is a brilliant display of easily digestible information that helped me understand manufacturing stamped materials and the capabilities and facets of the trade. Fantastic job, Destin, thank you! Cheers 🍻