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I have no doubt you are going be successful in you endeavor. Best of luck.

Can we only leaning on xometry company to make money or need have more connections to get more work Xometry company are they covering enough work to make your expenses payed like machines payments…

Xometry is a great way to get started, whoever came up with the concept is genius. The whole thing makes so much sense. Getting Work is one of the biggest obstacles to overcome when starting up in manufacturing, although I haven’t used it Xometry seems like a great way of facilitating that.

Dude, this is a really awesome channel that you’ve got here sharing lots of very very useful information. You just don’t get that anywhere else to this degree. Thank you so much.

Well done my man, nice video. I like the fact that you just highlight the best features of each resource like for example use Titans of CNC for education but don’t buy their tool kit. Buy the Tormach Cnc Mill but don’t buy the vise. Love that.

Thanks man appreciate it

Love the videos, love the series, love the information and everything you're sharing. Just a note on editing: your video quality looks GREAT! For the audio, lots of tools will clean up the echo and make the audio pristine with just ONE click, I used capcut it was only $10/mo, but there's other tools, some are free.

Great video, when doing jobs on xometry are any of your orders shipped internationally? I live in australia and i'm worried i won't get much work within australia as xometry doesn't seem that popular here.

I’ll definitely be using this resource on the Sandvik website.

Your videos are so helpful. Thank you so much for your efforts. Can you make a video about how to select a space for shop? Is a loading dock better? or drive in door is better? Floor conditions? Power? Any other items to look for? Hope you can squeeze this in one of your next videos.

Good stuff! I'm slowly putting together a shop in my garage and found your videos while browsing machining content. Just subscribed!

I've had a pretty terrible experience with Alro. They're always super expensive and depending on hoe you do billing with them, sometimes they'll jack the price when they actually charge you vs the quote they gave you. SpeedyMetals has been decent.

I saw the comment on the last video that you're too quiet, I know it's impossible to please everyone but I think your levels were fine before. Peaking a lot in this one

Try a corncob mill. You'll be surprised on how much harder you can push it

Great work bro

awesome vid

A1 content!

If you ever do another one of these, I think it's worth putting Haas tooling on the list. Tooling is really good for the money! No tooling rep required and up front pricing. Thanks for sharing, definitely learned something today!

This is easily the best yt channel for people who just get started!

We have one local steel supplier that stocks 90% of what we need. Cheaper than all the big city shops. If I need aluminum I’ll get it from the big city places. Have a local brass foundry so we get most from there as well.

Thanks for taking the time to share. Good info.

Dude i been watching since you started. You are a certified bad ass! Keep it up man. I appreciate the knowledge.

you have a local place that will let you wander in and look through drops?

McMaster is good for very small qty and in a hurry. Alro and all other suppliers are better for larger qty. You have to call and get pricing from pretty much anyone in order to get an accurate price. If you need small Pcs first call and ask for drops you may be able to get a drop close to the size you need for much less. These suppliers often charge for the whole bar or at least the remainder of a bar as they don't want to just throw money away if that drop never gets sold. Alro and places that have online pricing are good for getting ballpark pricing for quotes but always call in to get the best price.

You make fantastic videos. The only piece of advice I would give is: if you pick up the phone, it can change the entire experience and price. Let them know you are shopping other places and tell them you prefer to use “them” Anyone - and I mean anyone, worth their salt, can ship next day air.

I've used midweststeelsupply, speedymetals, coremarkmetals, fastmetals, hadco, & alro. That copper bar was $441 at Midweststeel

Good luck!!

Previous company i worked for would get a lot of material from Ryerson.

Harbor Steel is a good option

Plastics international for pretty much any kind of plastics PA steel for aluminum Alro for brass and goofy stuff that nobody else has in stock Southern copper supply for copper (I bet that piece you showed from McMaster is minimum 1/2 price) Rolled Alloys for Stainless, nitronic, specialty alloys in plate and round bar SSA (Service Steel Aerospace) for specialty 4140 VAC melt, inconels, etc. Yarde metals for drops at great prices McMaster is good if you need something quick. But for materials that they charge 200+ for, you are almost guaranteed paying 2X cost

Steel and most structural grade from INFRA METALS

Great info and examples. Thank you for your informative videos! Could you please add links into your description in the future?

Great info, how about tooling? Drills, endmills, taps?

The alro online cart price is for weekend warriors. You need to make a cart with all the material you're buying. You will see the price of every item drop significantly every time you add something. Not the it matters because you'll get the real price when you copy and paste the list into an email and send it in for a quote. I get my best prices most of the time via alro. I'm surprised the local territory manager hasn't stopped by and explained how to do this. Plus the shipping is basically free when you have enough weight in you order because the will put it on a truck to deliver it.

Online stores is how you make money out of gen Z, because they do not know how to use a phone (afraid to pick up a phone and use it for its intended purpose). I have a list of suppliers. If I need something, 15min call around for the best price, and I have material on the way. Sometimes, as much as 50-70% cheaper compared to listed online pricing. Keeping low online pricing up to date is a big risk to material suppliers, with volatile material price changes. And the majority of websites mentioned are the worst for the material supplies. If you are using them, your business will be suffering.

Great video, though one quick thing. Alro actually has very competitive prices, but you need to call them directly. Their website is useful for determining what they stock, but their list prices are comical. If you talk directly to a sales person, your costs will easily be 60% off of website value, and over time as you order more and more from them, they will drop the prices even more. Alro also doesn't like to leave remnants laying around, so if you buy something that is 2' long, they still charge you enough to cover the remnant-scrap value, plus they charge like $100 just to setup their saw. It's often cheaper to buy a whole bar, than half a bar. Sometimes you can get lucky and take someone else's remnant for pennies on the dollar. Metal supermarkets is a great place if you have one nearby too. They stock a bigger variety, and don't seam to charge a cut fee (or much of one at least). So if you have a little bit of some oddball size, they are normally the cheapest way.

Have you ran any tight hole to hole tolerance parts with Syil? I was looking at purchasing one of these but I have .0005 position tolerances on some parts I run.

ive had good luck with Yarde for stainless and brass, and performance titanium group for, well, titanium. But I usually am getting multiple bars of precision ground material. One thing I have noticed is that quantity changes prices big time. Ordering cuts, of even single bars will drive the prices up A LOT. Ive gotten quotes for 2 bars of material that were more expensive than quotes or 10 bars of the same material. And then McMaster has been pretty decent for any small orders of oddball materials

So much valuable information. Thank you!

I use Tyler, Tool, And Steel here in Tyler, Texas

Hey Evan, what you shower with Alro incorrect. However, if you send them an RFQ their quoted price is way lower. Not sure why, but it’s pretty much all the time. Videos are great - keep them up and good luck with the goal - I too have a similar goal. Let’s go!

Online Metals and Alro are about the biggest rippoffs in the online game. Alro isnt that bad if you pickup but the mearest to me is 1:30 away. Midwest Aluminum is about best online but has a lead time. Mcmaster is awesome if you need it now. Still mostly cheeper than Online Metals. I also use sendcutsend to cut blanks if its in sheet and plate thickness and finish milling. Qty has to be there though.

What also gets you is ITAR/DFARS requirements. Especially when you do "will call" metals. We are stuck to Alro due to the volume we order and the requirements.

Castle metals, Samuel metals as well

Midwest Steel and Aluminum is a good supplier I've used. They give you upfront pricing online, and it lets you play with the cut quantities to see the price breaks. Waaay cheaper than Online Metals or McMaster.

I use Alro for about all my orders, I have a main distribution center down the road from me. I order about 100k in sheet stock a year, they cater to the bigger guys than smaller. But I looked up your 2x2 copper in my cart. I can get a drop that is 44" long and only costing a little over $500. McMaster is known for costing more, since they are a middle man. All I can say is any company will give you more of cut on stock cost if you order more. That is why big shops are lower cost.

Can you provide more in depth on what tools exactly you need for begginer partner ship With xometry?

I have been using HADCO a lot recently for Aluminum and stainless

Material suppliers we have used: EMJ (aluminum, stainless) , Yarde (aluminum, stainless), Laird (plastics), Emco (plastics), Thyssenkrupp (brass, copper), TW Metals, there's a few others. Just about always get 2 quotes on materials, there is the rare exception when you can't find anyone else who has exactly what you need.

Thanks for sharing this information with the community we all can learn something new. However your business would do well in the long run to add a labor factor into your financial statement for each job. Even owner/operator time has a cost associated with it. The same is true of a personal garage machine shop. An apportionment of all the household expenses across the SF occupied as a fixed cost should also be a factor. Congratulations and Good Luck!