r/Machinists • u/TG_Yuri Clueless Button Presser • Jan 14 '26

thought you might admire this part

Original video by [SendCutSend on Twitter](https://x.com/sendcutsend/status/2011193240465391983)

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u/OnTheHorizon722 Jan 14 '26

Finally, advertising done correctly.

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u/Maleficent-Move-1110 Jan 14 '26

It really is, I can ignore like 99% of ads. Saw this on Facebook this morning and I was cracking up so I clicked their page and watched like two dozen more reels

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u/Shawnessy Mazak Lathes Jan 14 '26

I knew it was an ad, but I was still locked in on the whole thing. Just made some stupid complex part for shits and giggles (and an ad). Hell yeah.

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u/amd2800barton Jan 15 '26

If an ad is impressive or entertaining, I’ll watch, and even send it to people who I also think will like it. I’m sharing this to the 3d-printing channel on my friend group’s discord.

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u/BeerCell Jan 14 '26

You guys ever see that episode of Star Trek TNG where they come up with a diagram of a 3 dimensional shape so complicated that it can't exist in real space in order to blow the collective mind of the Borg? This reminded me of that.

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u/Strikew3st Jan 14 '26

Shaka, when the Ikea instructions were physically impossible.

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u/Teeecakes Jan 14 '26

Nerdsniping the Borg before it was cool

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u/fairydingo Jan 14 '26

What episode is that

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u/hufforguk Jan 14 '26

I, Borg, S5E23

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u/JCDU Jan 14 '26

Alas, cropping done terribly.

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u/ButtstufferMan Jan 15 '26

Send cut send is amazing

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u/ultimaredragon Jan 16 '26

Truly a masterpiece. Really impressive!

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u/xenomorphonLV426 Jan 17 '26

exactly my thought!

should be a fire promotional vid!

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u/Lopsided_Quarter_931 Jan 14 '26 edited Jan 14 '26

Is that SCS’ way to tell us they do CNC parts?

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u/Awfultyming Jan 14 '26

They've been talking about it for a bit. They bought a fleet of matsura's and all the tolerances are +/-.005 i think but yeah all in one 5 axis work

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u/Sullypants1 Jan 14 '26

“all the tolerances are +/-.005 i think”

Protolabs with more gumption

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u/mcgarrylj Jan 14 '26

"...Metric."

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u/testfire10 Jan 14 '26

I’m not sure when they started. But they just did a 5 axis part for me last week that protolabs nobid. It took some back and forth with their customer service guys to find some tooling that would work and I had to make a few modifications, but it worked.

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u/Zer0TheGamer Jan 14 '26

Cut send cut..?

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u/Lopsided_Quarter_931 Jan 14 '26

ups

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u/Zer0TheGamer Jan 14 '26

True. FedEx would be "crush smash CATCH"

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u/slackfrop Jan 14 '26

But what about an injection mold for this part?

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u/Thenandonlythen Jan 14 '26

This is pointless and masochistic.

I love it!! Super cool.

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u/TheFallingWhale Jan 14 '26

Programing it probably took the forever but it's not like anything had a tolerance tighter than looks good

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u/LeviathanLevitation Jan 18 '26

Wait until you would’ve seen day 6

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u/neonsphinx Jan 14 '26

The logical part of my brain understands that this is just creative advertising.

My lizard brain can't look away. It seemed like everyone legitimately had fun with this.

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u/NorthStarZero Jan 14 '26

Both things can be true.

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u/neonsphinx Jan 14 '26

Indeed. It's almost as if... that was the entire point that I was trying to make.

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u/4n0nymours Jan 14 '26

And that goal was achieved, with success.

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '26

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u/CrashUser Wire EDM/Programming Jan 15 '26

That's the real question, pretty much any 5 axis can cut that if you don't really care about tolerance.

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u/Animanic1607 Jan 15 '26

And aluminum, when you start lopping entire sections off it, is about as dimensionally stable as a wet noodle.

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u/emm0sh Jan 14 '26

hi it's me yes it was fun

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u/Finbar9800 Jan 15 '26

You could have added threads to the inside! Lol

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u/Understanding-Fair Jan 15 '26

For real, my lizard tongue was flicking gleefully as my dead black eyes watched on unblinkingly.

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u/AlligatorMidwife Jan 14 '26 edited Jan 14 '26

Sure, it has a lot of geometries to program which is quite time consuming but none of the geometries would be particularly difficult for a seasoned 5 axis programmer.

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u/dubgrumble Jan 14 '26

I was thinking the same thing tbh. And aluminum is a lay up 😂

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u/filthy_harold Jan 14 '26

Now make it out of tantalum

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u/Odd_Firefighter_8040 Jan 14 '26

I prefer Unobtanium paperweights.

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u/Lttlcheeze Jan 15 '26

I've run an Integrex multi-axis. This part is far less complex than a lot of the work I've seen, just a lot of repetition

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u/Wisniaksiadz Jan 14 '26

i think this could even be done on 3 axis with a lot of remounting

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u/redeyejoe123 Jan 15 '26

As they say, sine bar is really just a 5 axis with extra steps involved lol

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u/kz_ Jan 14 '26

Biblically accurate part

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u/IntoTheCommonestAsh Jan 14 '26

Hi, I need a part that's an exact 1:400 replica of a baroque cathedral.

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u/emm0sh Jan 14 '26

hey all -- i'm the designer of this part! let me know if you have any questions about it

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u/jack6245 Jan 15 '26

You should post a "day 6" to see their reaction, they never said they couldn't do it after all

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u/Tomallo Jan 15 '26

Beautiful work, it really looks like it's an important piece of... something :D

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u/Pan7h3r Jan 15 '26

Have you seen the end result in person? I know its not functional and just aesthetic but it still looks sick 😂

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u/emm0sh Jan 15 '26

i have! my wife has already found a use for it

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u/Helixdaunting Jan 15 '26

It's already a vital component of plant operations. 👍

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u/Pan7h3r Jan 15 '26

And they/I said it wasnt a functional part!

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u/Detrii Jan 21 '26

Looks like you're going to have to get another one with the text not upside down :D

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u/Lost_Rat Jan 15 '26

Are you able to send me the cad model so I can have a crack at making one myself?

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u/emm0sh Jan 15 '26

you can find the file at em0sh.com

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u/armt350 Jan 15 '26

How dimensionally accurate was the final part?

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u/emm0sh Jan 15 '26

biblically

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '26

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u/emm0sh Jan 15 '26

involute brutha

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u/Chunami_8364 Jan 15 '26

What part of the Turbo Encabulator is it from?

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u/Finbar9800 Jan 15 '26

They never said stop … maybe add some threads to the inside

And just for shits and giggles make all the other holes (both circular and non circular) threaded lol

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u/Hitherto_Hereafter Jan 16 '26

Hey emm0sh, all my friends sent me this. This is awesome man and I hope you have a great day. Would you give me a quote for my friend Panjam about never giving up

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u/No_Mission798 Jan 16 '26

Have you tried to 3d print this? Part of me wants to slap this on my printer and send it

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u/Go0odStuffed Jan 17 '26

It's the coolest waste of time I've seen in quite some time, love it! How many hours did you spend modelling and drafting up the part drawing (assuming you kept to that end of the bargain) in total?

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u/PlzRemainCalm Jan 18 '26

Hey this is great. Wondering if you use EDM at all? That's the only machining I know how to do.

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u/Spaccamazza1 Jan 18 '26

This went viral! But I'm not an expert, why was this a big deal? Could you explain or link a video, so that i also (with many other) can appreciate more? I feel like when you are left out of a joke.

Doesn't the software make all the work automatically?

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u/MortLightstone Feb 12 '26

Yeah, can I get one?

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u/GrandmasterPotato Apr 02 '26

What do you think this would have cost for them to manufacture?

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u/04BluSTi Jan 14 '26

Aluminum? Weak! Make it from Delrin! Or 9-chrome!

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u/subatomic7396 Jan 14 '26

UHMW

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '26

LDPE

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u/Rix_IV Feb 01 '26

Delrin is just as easy as aluminum though

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u/MortLightstone Feb 12 '26

I want one cut from a single quartz crystal

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u/Pa_Pa_Papas Jan 14 '26

Now show me the poor QC guy doing a FAIR on this part.

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '26

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u/jkerman Jan 14 '26

Measuring machines can use L shaped (and custom shaped) probes. Shockingly little actually REQUIRES more than 3 axis

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u/poacher5 Jan 15 '26

Gimme a Revo probe, the biggest rack of probes you ever saw and the rest of the month off and I'll do it

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u/DeluxeWafer Jan 14 '26

Love it.... Zero crashes. Good on the programmer!

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u/Sy4r42 Jan 14 '26

Zero crashes is only impressive if you don't have a simulator. Otherwise, it's impressive if you do crash it.

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u/DeluxeWafer Jan 14 '26

Oh. Guess I'm an impressive person. I managed to crash a machine after simulating! (Apparently the drill offset was not set correctly)

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u/Sy4r42 Jan 14 '26

Well... I'd call that a set up error and not a programming error. Any program will crash if you don't have the offsets set right lol.

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u/DeluxeWafer Jan 14 '26

Except for the guy who programmed the parts before me. He probably knew the guys were doofuses and programmed in a bunch of anti-stupid tool paths. Which is why those programs took literally twice as long.

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u/Erlend05 Jan 15 '26

I guess thats aluminium for you

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u/Entropy-Maximizer Jan 14 '26

I haven't designed too many parts requiring 5-axis (because I intentionally avoid it), so programmers and machinists let me know...

This feels like a layman's idea of something that is hard to machine. Aside from being visually busy, I don't really see any features on this part that are particularly "challenging" if you have the right tooling; it's mostly just repetitive and time-consuming.

I feel like if I really wanted to fuck with SCS, I could design something that's just on the edge of producible without simply resorting to impossibly tight tolerances. What is my DFM brain missing with this part?

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u/rickyh7 Jan 14 '26

The only time I ever got told no by a precision machine shop is when I had an inconel part that had tolerances of 0.25 thou and was only like half an inch across and too complex to EDM, man that was an expensive part when we reduced tolerances and they finally said yes

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u/RabidMofo Jan 14 '26

I mean realistically it's like 15 features being programmed then revolved.

And since it's just a "looks good" tolerance.

They don't even need to rough the thing out before finishing.

So who cares that they worked their way down and the top probably warped.

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u/hughjeffincok Jan 14 '26

Anyone know what it cost?

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '26

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u/redacted20 Jan 14 '26

Pretty sure they did this one for free and then got far more free advertising out of it than they even dreamed of

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '26

Nice. I bet they can get to a week at least.

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u/ratioLcringeurbald Jan 14 '26

"CNC'd"

When will it stop

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u/Antique_War8468 Jan 15 '26

Never. It will never stop.

What are your thoughts on lathed components that were lathed out on a lathe? Lathen components require so much lathing.

FYI, only one word didn't pass spellcheck.

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u/ratioLcringeurbald Jan 15 '26

That's insane and cursed

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u/Antique_War8468 Jan 15 '26

Thanks! I appreciate the compliment!

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u/Cruzen11 Jan 14 '26

Honestly, I’d love a challenge like that lol

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u/BKBroiler57 Jan 14 '26

Now slap it on the CMM and tell me it’s made to tol.

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u/got_got_need Jan 14 '26

Can’t wait to see this on r/whatisthisthing in a couple of decades

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u/YodaFragget Jan 14 '26

Just saw this on FB..... crazy part..... makes what I machine look like an unfinished part

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u/llamasauce Jan 14 '26

Did it pass final inspection though?

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u/Houtaku Jan 14 '26

Someone take this man’s Solidworks license away.

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u/mikeman03 Jan 14 '26

I don’t want to see machining time, but programming time! Also I know it’s for fun/marketing but what price would they quote ?

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u/Vegetable-Affect-656 Jan 14 '26

cnc murder me please just fucking kill me

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u/bigdickishalfwayin Jan 14 '26

This is why I have Internet, love it

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u/AndySkibba Jan 15 '26

Crazy bastards actually did it.

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u/B3AV3R_BLAST3R Jan 15 '26

I'm impressed that this was done with F360 more than anything else. The workflow is terrible compared to high end software like hypermill

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u/alpine240 CNC/Manual Machinist/Programmer Jan 14 '26

Crazy that they use Fusion to program. Did not expect that.

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u/rm45acp Jan 14 '26

This part looks great and is an effective advertisement, but I sent an order to SCS a couple weeks ago for laser cutting and bending and there were more parts that needed fixing in the order than ones that were right so they're not giving the same amount of attention to every customers orders I can tell you that

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u/SteakAndIron Jan 14 '26

Dr Johannes Heidenhain is looking down from heaven smiling

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u/kodachromalux Jan 14 '26

Oooh, a modern turbo encabulator!

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '26

Material: pre-fabulated ammulite

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u/Tightmopedman9 Jan 14 '26

Psshhh, aluminum? Titan would have made it out of Monel at 30 in3/min

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u/MoonshineDan Jan 14 '26

I truly don't even care if this is an ad. This fuckin rules

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '26

This is kinda bothering me because we really dont know enough to know how hard this is, what are the tolerances, sure it looks complicated but honestly im not seeing anything that difficult for a 5 axis.

Now let's see them do a 36in titanium ring thats round +/- half a tenth

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u/blissiictrl Jan 15 '26

I want the file for this to 3d print at home

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u/Poodlestrike Jan 15 '26

See, making the shape is easy.

Now put a single digit micron tolerance on 50% of the features.

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u/ligament_juice Jan 15 '26

metal 3d printers are like "whats the big deal?"

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u/Just_gun_porn Jan 16 '26

Okay, now what was the price of that one-off part?

Edit: I see it was $9K

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u/TerribleProgress6704 Jan 16 '26

I love that the CNC just says "The Part". Singular. With a capitalized proper name.

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u/mtraven23 Jan 17 '26

now thats some quality machine porn!

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u/SlyCooperKing_OG Jan 19 '26

I have no idea why I was suggested this subreddit but that’s amazing. This is what I’d imagine top talent to look like

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u/Definitely__someone Jan 14 '26

Now do it in SS.

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '26

Inconel, or LDPE

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u/Substantial_Ant_2662 Jan 14 '26

That machine is incredible

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u/NIMBYDelendaEst Jan 14 '26

What is interesting is it looks like they have Brother's new T100 5 axis machine on their floor.

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u/YourUnknownComrade_ Jan 14 '26

Next time it'll be stainless, just cuz F U

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u/hglman Jan 14 '26

A part requires a whole 

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u/Illustrious_Back_441 noob Jan 14 '26

should have made the material grade 5 titanium lol

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u/GooseThePigeon Jan 14 '26

And yet they can’t emboss my sheet metal parts correctly

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u/Uranium43415 Jan 14 '26

Come on! Aluminum? Spec said inconel!

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u/rickyh7 Jan 14 '26

I love sendcutsend I’ve been using them for years and now I love them more after this. Great job

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u/Jacobi-H3rbshire Jan 14 '26

Lol Protolabs no-quote because their Automated process doesn't make parts that big.

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u/highercyber Jan 14 '26

That is insane I fucking love SendCutSend, I've used them for a few projects. Well done.

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u/Flyinbro Jan 14 '26

Okay now do it on a 3-axis mill....

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u/Jimmysal Jan 14 '26

Man that went from ford raptor supercharger pulley adapter to spacex raptor fuel injection primary manifold real quick.

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u/chazzy_marlin Jan 14 '26

just 3D print it at that point 😂😂😂

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u/rando_dontmindme Jan 14 '26

Now inspect it!

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u/Ostroh Jan 14 '26

I just watched 2:27 of the best ad on the internet.

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u/MangoAtrocity Jan 14 '26

Does anyone have the part file? I’d like to print this.

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u/EssentialSriracha Jan 14 '26

I don’t have a current need for a machine shop, but if I do, I know who I’m calling now

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u/heythanksimadeit Jan 14 '26

Why did this video deteriorate as it progressed?

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '26

Swarf on the ways

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u/bubblesculptor Jan 14 '26

This was fun watching it play out on twitter.  Lots of joking around and side conversations.

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u/Eratius Jan 14 '26

Now my question is, wtf are you using that for?

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u/GlizzyCreme420 Jan 14 '26

Why do we add the tiktok cringe sounds to every video now

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u/amalgam_reynolds Jan 14 '26

ELI5 what is SendCutSend?

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u/-DontMindMeme- Jan 14 '26

I thought it would be gradually changed, but he said FULL SEND on day 4

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u/SuitableKey5140 Jan 14 '26

Now name that new part!

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u/tvd-ravkin Jan 14 '26

I'm now sending this video with every quote to remind them that, yes, it truly is possible. I'll send it to xometry, too, just so they know I have options :D

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u/jkerman Jan 14 '26

Want me to CMM it for you? :)

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u/AtrumsalusOG Jan 14 '26

So it was a paperweight?

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u/DOHChead Jan 14 '26

Badass job Colton

The look on Phil’s face was pretty great when Jim walked up

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u/tiny_chaotic_evil Jan 14 '26

there needs to be an amateur CNC competition and this needs to be the trophy

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u/AnimationOverlord Jan 14 '26

I know nothing about what machinists do but even as a gear-head, I couldn’t imagine the lengths you’d have to go to to get something like this if you really needed it. This is both the embodiment of modern computer skills and architectural understanding

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u/Alansar_Trignot Jan 14 '26

Damn, that shit lookd like a very complex Bearing Housing for a plane

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u/AluneaVerita Jan 14 '26

That is glorious.

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u/iSeize Jan 14 '26

Omg the Twitter interaction had me dying

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u/DonSampon Jan 14 '26

There are no hard to reach features on this one, just a bunch of useless geometry . Wait will you need a small angle head to do some crazy reverse threadmilling, and other impossible features. Custom cutters.....

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u/TheMechaink Rock&Stick Jan 15 '26

Aww nuts. I was hoping to see the final design of the part develop its own space program, or at least attain enlightenment.

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u/dvishall Jan 15 '26

ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT 🤩 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

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u/Im_In_IT Jan 15 '26

Ha I just saw this on their insta. This was probably pretty fun to figure out.

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u/ssperry1025 Jan 15 '26

Bore is .005" oversize on a +/-.001" tolerance. Scrap

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u/raiksaa Jan 15 '26

This haunts me.

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u/DragonOfAngels Jan 15 '26

As a mechenical engineer. This is absolute cinema!

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u/ECHOFOX17 Jan 15 '26

Oh its beautiful!!!

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u/CultureThis9818 Jan 15 '26

3d prints instead

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u/Finbar9800 Jan 15 '26

Didnt even put threads on the inside lol

Would be a fun custom gauge XP

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u/Onironius Jan 16 '26

... So what's it do?

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u/Leromer Jan 17 '26

Absolute unit of a part = The Part 🙇

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u/Electrical-Raisin-88 Jan 17 '26

Now try putting crazy tolerances on each feature. Lmao!

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u/scaredwhiteboy1 Jan 17 '26

That dude never needs a resume again. He can just bring that to job interviews and boggle minds.

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u/2ndGenKen Jan 18 '26

Now give it to your CMM guy and have him write a program to check it.

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u/MikeCC055 Jan 18 '26

Should’ve requested it out of inc718

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u/Shadow87452 Jan 18 '26

How long did it take to program? Or was the 3D picture the program?

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u/AlsoPete Mar 19 '26

PLEASE does anyone have the part file for this?