@@hvuu1628 I think we had (until I accidentally stabbed myself with and broke) a 0.1mm 15xD ball endmill for nearly 5 years. Granted it was used to machine detailed graphite electrodes
I am a geologist who uses these drill bits to extract extremely small (about 100 microgram) powdered samples of carbonate rock for chemical analysis. Very cool to see this process!
@@seinfan9 I've never had one break, but the relatively soft minerals and small sample size means I don't put a ton of wear and tear on the component. I also do mostly spot drilling--just straight in and out with the bit. When I occasionally do rasters or transects where the bit is moving horizontally I get more nervous, but no issues so far
@@prumchhangsreng979 I'm interested in the stable carbon isotopes present in the rock. It's from a period nearly 600 million years ago called the "shuram excursion" where there is a really mysterious isotope record in carbonate rocks from all around the World. We're trying to figure out what caused this signal; could be related to changes in ocean circulation, photosynthesis, or many other things which affect carbon isotopes.
@@youtubeisgarbage900 I'm not sure exactly what you mean, but I'll do my best. First, my research is not carbon dating. Carbon dating is the study of radioactive 14C, which is produced in the upper atmosphere by reactions with cosmic rays at a fairly consistent rate, and decays into nitrogen at a very consistent rate. By comparing the 14C content in a sample with the original content (which we infer) we can estimate the time elapsed since something stopped incorporating carbon from the atmosphere (for example, when an organism dies). Since 14C decays rather quickly (around half of any sample will have disappeared after just 5000 years) we can't use this method to date things more than a few hundred thousand years ago. Instead, my research is focused on analyzing the two stable isotopes of carbon, 12 and 13, by which I mean they do not decay over time. So to your comment, most charcoal comes from the aptly named carboniferous period, which was indeed more than 3 hundred MILLION years ago-no chance at all of using 14C carbon dating. I'm not sure what iron tools you're referring to (again, I don't do carbon dating) but I can tell you they are not millions of years old, both from a human evolution and carbon isotope perspective. Hope this helps convince you I'm not a fraud
Several corrections: 0:50 - The grinding wheel is not "applied to a chamfered edge" it is creating the chamfered edge 1:23 - The centerless does not "grind them down to a specified length" it grinds them down to a specified diameter 3:18 - If that technician takes 4 to 5 hours to setup a single drill bit in that grinding jig... I don't know what to say. They most likely meant 4 to 5 minutes which is about right, or possibly the entire drill bit lifecycle from blank to finished takes 4 to 5 hours; however, I believe the former to be most likely. 4:09 - If it's impossible to see the difference before and after fluting, you need an eye exam. @Science Channel, if y'all are hiring for a script writer/editor, hit me up, 'cause y'all clearly need a better one.
Also, @2:26 the chuck doesnt hold the blank perfectly still, its holding it centered - you can see the end of the blank rotating as the two wheels "close in". Glad Im not the only one bothered by the small errors
@@manzoorathar11 This is not programming. It's the same false concept as like "The king build a new castle." No he just gave the order to do so by his peasants.
@@wernerhiemer406 Thats how I explain Barak did kill Bin Laden. Only a fool thinks you mean Barak was on Seal Team 6 running inside a Pakistan home with an H&K MP7. You get the fame and the blame when your on top.
Okay yeah, when you use a plc normally, you just have to press a button to break a pause state. But when you start manufacturing the other products or when there's a quality control issue, that same person could be trained to modify the program.
I think taking a close-up picture of something with a CCD then displaying it on a bigger-than-life monitor classifies as magnification. Try looking at a similar drill bit in person at the same distance as you viewed it on your screen. I think you'll find the fluting hard to discern.
Very neat, a centerless grinder that brings the over all length to size ... Sure looked like it was grinding the OD to me. I know, I know ... He's reading from a script, not his fault.
@@icabod3374 Yep that would be a collet, lol. Saw that one too, as well as him saying "... The diamond grinding wheel is applied to a chamfered edge on one end of the blank..." Instead of saying that it's cutting (or applyING not appliED) the chamfer on one end. Also a bit humorous that he says, "... associated with carpentry..." tho most anything will cut through 99% of all woods. No real need for micro carbide drills most carpentry, probably moreso associated with metal work, fabrication, {metal} machining, etc. I'm also a machinist, a journeyman, for just at 25 years now.
@@johnnywayne7654 yeah and then we have the ppl for whom this vid was made which are well ... lets say less likely to be versed in machinist lingo or have a clue for what any drill that is not bought at the home build store might be used for. Still it is amusing if you know.
I actually make tiny drill bits like these for a living but they are medical bone taps, it’s actually really cool how it’s done and all of the processes
Years ago, a guy created a very tiny drill bit in his home shop. He was so excited about it that he sent it to NASA. NASA returned his bit with a hole drilled through it.
I'm an aerospace and medical equipment machinist. At my workplace we use these tiny little guys to produce very complex, very compact high pressure valves, usually some kind of actuator, for use in various aerospace projects. Also they are used to machine tiny cross connections between two high flow sections to facilitate very precise mixing of liquids, usually used in some kind of medical equipment. Sometimes the tiny holes that are drilled are also used to control the opening and closing of mechanical solenoids
I once accidentally stabbed myself in the palm with a 1.55mm bit. It made a pool of blood the size of a dollar coin in my hand. Its been two years and theres still a light spot on my hand from where I stabbed myself.
We break so many of these drills of such a micro scale, thought it would be nice to come see what it takes to make these little guys we utilize daily. How It IS made is never a let down, thank you. We both now appreciate the making of these GREAT cutter more now. We review the bits here under our stereo microscope and comparator. Lance & Patrick.
Look, I don't know how tight they want their tolerances on centering, but I can't imagine it would take 4-5 hours to center something like that. I've worked with precision tooling before and centering something can take time but not 4-5 hours. Whoever did the research for this episode must have been a little tired or something.
Every manufacturer has its own requirements and threshold for quality. In this video, it is clear that they were making industrial grade, precision drill bits.
@@28russ it might make sense if you're setting up multiple tools to work together, but still it's a lot of time. Maybe they do a bunch of test runs? idk
There is a lot of mistakes in the video, probably bad translation. Once the lector talks "length", when actually he talks about diameter. Those hours of centering are probably also a big mistake, since the drill bit like this costs a few EUR from a good brand, and less than EUR from China.
Whole my studies was about mechatronic, and hours of lectures didn't present the process of micro drills production as great as here. I'm very glad that Discovery came back to roots of How It's made.
Ive used quite a few of these at work, some as small as .015 and always wondered how they could grind the geometry without breaking it. Thanks for the upload👍
@@Aditya-wg3lp I've got several of the hair-width end mills (errr...router bits) - I use them for inlaying. The most common use is for improving corners - draw a 90 degree channel with a 1/8" bit, and then run a 1/16" along the edges followed by the sub-mm one. I've also got one made specifically for ivory (I've got some mammoth ivory bits). You have to be very careful with speed and depth on these because they break super easily if the parameters are wrong, and they're not cheap to replace.
@@Aditya-wg3lp I'm an aerospace and medical supply machinist. At my workplace, we mainly use these tiny little guys to produce very complex, high pressure valves and to machine cross lines between two high flow sections to facilitate very precise mixing of liquids. Sometimes the tiny holes that are drilled are also used to control the opening and closing of mechanical solenoids
I happen to see a drawing of a 10 mm thick disc which required four holes of Dia. 0.5 mm at 45 degree angle ... These holes were required to control the flow of fuel i.e. liquid hydrogen and oxygen (in liquid propellant engines i.e. aerospace industry) ... Such small holes allow for expansion of liquid to gas as well ...
@@muhammadharisnisar that's still almost twenty thousandth. That's huge compared to the bit in the video. We have a catalog at work that list drills down to one thousandth dia. You could break that by looking at it wrong !
The operator does not program the work process, they would likely SELECT the pre-made program and SET UP for the work process. The program has likely been in use for quite some time.
This was quite interesting. I worked in a printed circuit factory in early 90s as a cnc drill operator and used hundreds of small drill bits each shift. Usually sizes were between 0.3mm and 0.7mm but sometimes smaller ones were used in some special pcb.
Well, as all machinists or experts in any subject would know, it takes time and money to reach high precision and quality. It’s just the same in the film making business. This film is cheap and good enough for ignorants, like 99% of everything, sadly. How this transfers to politics is frightening. 99% of a population have no clue and no desire to study past the bullshit in politician’s arguments and yet vote for them. If only we had a micrometer to figure out the bullshit from the truth it ‘d be easier.
@@scslre I'm not a machinist, just a guy who likes to tinker around with tools, and the terminology in this video made me cringe too. Lets not make excuses for poor research on their part.
@@SanoCrushridge the blanks are tungsten carbide. This video doesnt show any coating of the drills, but it's quite common for these drills to have some coating on them, depending on performance requirements
I have a massive love hate relationship with these drills, they are priceless for the work I do but are beyond fragile, I use one that’s 0.1mm in diameter daily but each hole way 3mm deep takes 30-45 minutes to drill, I don’t own a million dollar precision mill or lathe so this is all work done by hand on a small precision lathe and you have to feed and clear chips after only micron sized advancements each time, especially with the 0.1mm bit or it will absolutely snap
3:13 - "A technician uses a magnifying tool to fine tune the placement of the blank, and ensure it's perfectly centered. This process can take four to five hours." I would bet that Abom79 could do it in less then 3 minutes, while narrating a video for his channel. 😉
I think the 4 to 5 hour set up is for the production of multiple batch bits not individual bits . Cheers from a Quality Control Technician with 40 years experience Down Under In Australia . P.S. at 1.29 Ground to Diameter not length .
I got a bit of a funny feeling with this video. I work all day with a 4 axis cnc. My head and world revolve around the hundredth of a mm, so when the narrator spoke in reverent tones for "a tenth of a mm", I smiled and thought "don't you mean a country mile?!". Then I remembered that there aren't many trades that use the same scale I do.
Can't always use an edm. Maybe the part won't fit, or you're using it for surgery, or the part isn't metal, or it's in an environment or location that prohibits the use of an edm and it can't be moved, or you can't afford an EDM. There are lots of good reasons to use these. The only downside is the rigidity is critical. You need very little runout and a very stiff drill press.
In case if anyone wanted to know how a carbide material is made. Someone's summary/comment on another video: 1. Raw materials are received as tungsten carbide powder and a binder (typically cobalt or nickel). 2. Raw materials are blended into a slurry and then dried. 3. The powder is compressed into a compacted powder material. 4. The material is machined to the desired product shape. 5. The product is sintered at 2500F in an argon pressurized environment. 6. It's quality controlled and checked. When it's a pass then they are sent out to be used.
I use carbide drills every day to drill in jewelry, very awesome to see this video. The wheel they use to create the shape of the tip of drill we use small wheels too, connected to our handpieces lol
i work for medical mold shop and ive used these! Specifically for milling graphite which we later send over to EDM to burn it into steel. Very cool and expensive process. I think the smallest cutter ive used was a .007 endmill to hit tight rads. Very cool video though!
i've watched so much huggbees i was waiting for the video to go of the rails which just didn't happen... only saw after it was a genuine how it's made video
Thousands of years ago we didn't spin rocks to drill holes, we pushed back and forth to dig holes into things, as evidenced by beaded jewelry and hand tools with the wear patterns of a digging motion.
How a plumbus is made: First, you take the dinglepop, and you smooth it out with a bunch of schleem. The schleem is then repurposed for later batches. Then you take the dinglebop and push it through the grumbo, where the fleeb is rubbed against it. It's important that the fleeb is rubbed, because the fleeb has all of the fleeb juice. Then a Shlami shows up and he rubs it, and spits on it. Then you cut the fleeb. There's several hizzards in the way. The blaffs rub against the chumbles, and the plubus and grumbo are shaved away. That leaves you with a regular old plumbus!
@@fristrm "Allot" is to apportion something, generally money. "Alot" is a town in India. "A lot" is more than one. Wake up and teach yourself homonyms and homophones.
Some of these things are exactly what I use to work with, I make drill bits using rollomatic machines, not very complicated & it doesn’t take that long to do a set up on these machines when doing the fluting processes.
@@Runkpapper not really... it seems he is centering every bit, but it for sure doesn't take 4 hours. Did some centering of tools and tool holders for rotary milling machines and those are WAY more compicated than this little thing.
A Swiss engineer hands a drill bit to a German engineer to proof that it is the smallest drill ever made. Later, the German engineer hands it back with a hole drilled through the drill bit.
I Used these drilled in the 1960s we had to buy them from Russia we were unable to manufacture them ourselves they were called spinks drill for thousands of an inch across You had to use a microscope
Various versions of this story of sporting one-upmanship may have started in 1939, something like: A manufacturer proudly sent a microscopically thin wire to the Swiss who returned it with a nice hole drilled from the side. Next surely precision-machined quarks
I'm an hobbyist working on small scale models. As such I have *drills* (not drill bits) that go down to 0.25mm. None of them have shanks that size, but continue with the base diameter throughout their whole length. Of course I would only use them in my lathe as, hand held, I would just wobble and they would break!
What kind of tool holder do you use to hold those drills in, special collets? And how do you make sure you don't force them in to whatever is in your chuck too quickly to the point of them breaking? I imagine you must have some very fine motor control to keep them in tact and now screw up whatever you're working on?
So many nomenclature errors..As a Machinist with over twenty years experience, I can tell you a centerless grinder grinds the WIDTH of a part, not length. The blank was loaded into a collet chuck, not a clamp. And he was checking the flutes with a Optical Comparator, and a portable microscope. Not to mention most Machinist's could see the difference between the fluted and non fluted pieces with the naked eye (unless they are really old)..Any thing else I missed fellow Machinist's?
I appreciate your comments and experience! 20 years puts you in an era with many modern techniques and technology. Proud to say my uncle was selected to be a member of machinists on the Manhattan project (he didn't know it at the time). God only knows how they machined these intricate parts in the old school!
@@US_Joe Very cool! They machined them almost the same way we do today, with a lot more skill though, lol. They had optical flats back in the forties like we do now, and you can check flatness down to Millions of a inch with no problem. Johansen Gage blocks were a thing back then too (although very expensive and fairly new) and their so true to size and flat that you can wring two blocks together end to end and they will stick together without magnetism oil or adhesive. some say the gap between blocks is so small air molecues don't fit and it creates a vacuum. The main difference is the amount of time it took them to machine the parts on the manual machines vs CNC machines we have now.
Just a lot of stupid things. They said chuck or collar and I think they meant collet. They also said it holds the carbide perfectly still but the spindle is clearly running. Good call on the O/C not being a "microscope". And the comment at the end about carbide being strong made my skin crawl. Nothing compares to the feeling of dropping a solid carbide boring bar.... Speaking on behalf of a friend of course
Idk why i watched this on my break, this is literally my job.
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Oof
Collin Regalia What you help create are incredibly amazing!
hearing can take 4 or 5 hours I was like nope
Ya they cost so little it cant really be 4 to 5 hours
Legend has it, he's still centering that same drill bit today.
Up to 4 hours of centering 1 drill bit... Thats insane. I wonder how much one of these cost...
@@Chris-yy7qc the Mitsubishi micro tooling I use can cost up to £300, I think was the most expensive I've ordered so far atleast.
@@wildin13 i run 0.006 in drill all day long.
@@hvuu1628 I think we had (until I accidentally stabbed myself with and broke) a 0.1mm 15xD ball endmill for nearly 5 years. Granted it was used to machine detailed graphite electrodes
@@hvuu1628 the reall skill is not using them but setting them, am I right..?
I am a geologist who uses these drill bits to extract extremely small (about 100 microgram) powdered samples of carbonate rock for chemical analysis. Very cool to see this process!
Do these break often and wear out quickly?
@@seinfan9 I've never had one break, but the relatively soft minerals and small sample size means I don't put a ton of wear and tear on the component. I also do mostly spot drilling--just straight in and out with the bit. When I occasionally do rasters or transects where the bit is moving horizontally I get more nervous, but no issues so far
Slightly off topic but what are u doing that for? To anaylize the age of certain object?
@@prumchhangsreng979 I'm interested in the stable carbon isotopes present in the rock. It's from a period nearly 600 million years ago called the "shuram excursion" where there is a really mysterious isotope record in carbonate rocks from all around the World. We're trying to figure out what caused this signal; could be related to changes in ocean circulation, photosynthesis, or many other things which affect carbon isotopes.
@@youtubeisgarbage900 I'm not sure exactly what you mean, but I'll do my best. First, my research is not carbon dating. Carbon dating is the study of radioactive 14C, which is produced in the upper atmosphere by reactions with cosmic rays at a fairly consistent rate, and decays into nitrogen at a very consistent rate. By comparing the 14C content in a sample with the original content (which we infer) we can estimate the time elapsed since something stopped incorporating carbon from the atmosphere (for example, when an organism dies). Since 14C decays rather quickly (around half of any sample will have disappeared after just 5000 years) we can't use this method to date things more than a few hundred thousand years ago. Instead, my research is focused on analyzing the two stable isotopes of carbon, 12 and 13, by which I mean they do not decay over time. So to your comment, most charcoal comes from the aptly named carboniferous period, which was indeed more than 3 hundred MILLION years ago-no chance at all of using 14C carbon dating. I'm not sure what iron tools you're referring to (again, I don't do carbon dating) but I can tell you they are not millions of years old, both from a human evolution and carbon isotope perspective. Hope this helps convince you I'm not a fraud
Several corrections:
0:50 - The grinding wheel is not "applied to a chamfered edge" it is creating the chamfered edge
1:23 - The centerless does not "grind them down to a specified length" it grinds them down to a specified diameter
3:18 - If that technician takes 4 to 5 hours to setup a single drill bit in that grinding jig... I don't know what to say. They most likely meant 4 to 5 minutes which is about right, or possibly the entire drill bit lifecycle from blank to finished takes 4 to 5 hours; however, I believe the former to be most likely.
4:09 - If it's impossible to see the difference before and after fluting, you need an eye exam.
@Science Channel, if y'all are hiring for a script writer/editor, hit me up, 'cause y'all clearly need a better one.
Also, @2:26 the chuck doesnt hold the blank perfectly still, its holding it centered - you can see the end of the blank rotating as the two wheels "close in". Glad Im not the only one bothered by the small errors
The video was the food, this comment was my dessert 😋🤣
Those are pretty big errors in voice editing. Nice. Catches
Takes him 4-5 hours to set up because he's union.
They also called it a "collar" instead of "collet".
“An operator sets up the tools and programs its process”
*clicks auto and clicks go*
That is pretty much it.
@@manzoorathar11 This is not programming. It's the same false concept as like "The king build a new castle." No he just gave the order to do so by his peasants.
Virgin auto vs chad handle
@@wernerhiemer406 Thats how I explain Barak did kill Bin Laden. Only a fool thinks you mean Barak was on Seal Team 6 running inside a Pakistan home with an H&K MP7. You get the fame and the blame when your on top.
Okay yeah, when you use a plc normally, you just have to press a button to break a pause state. But when you start manufacturing the other products or when there's a quality control issue, that same person could be trained to modify the program.
"it's impossible to see the difference between a bit before and after fluting"
**Can clearly see the fluting as he's saying it**
Yes they should probably have added the phrase "without using magnification" (the image on screen was clearly magnified).
@@pete3897 clearly wasn't. At most I'd say it's a close-up.
I think taking a close-up picture of something with a CCD then displaying it on a bigger-than-life monitor classifies as magnification. Try looking at a similar drill bit in person at the same distance as you viewed it on your screen. I think you'll find the fluting hard to discern.
@@pete3897 I actually have some, and a dumore drill that uses them. You can see it.
he means its impossible to see with your eyes
4-5 hours to center it using shim stock???? they need a new process!
They need sharpshooters😂😂
It needs to be so precise I don’t know if there would be a better process
That's why they should be hiring Mexicans. They will do it faster and better Everytime.
It's not per drillbit, it's for setting up the machine the first time, after that you can cut thousands with no extra adjustment.
@@aleksandersuur9475 yeah 5 hours is a short set up actually, I've spent a week on set up before
Me: about to go to sleep*
TH-cam: “Hey, you want to know how they make small drill bits?”
Me: “Yes plz.”
5.37 am here
Milouch 10:39 here in Dallas. Where u from?
3:13 am...
(0_0 ) Yes
hey you wanna know a wooden maus tank is built? th-cam.com/video/l8vTc0Sxv20/w-d-xo.html
Same haha
Very neat, a centerless grinder that brings the over all length to size ... Sure looked like it was grinding the OD to me. I know, I know ... He's reading from a script, not his fault.
Johnny Wayne thank you!! I was hoping someone else caught that.
Being a machinist I caught that immediately. Happy to see I wasn't the only one!
Also, "Places it in a waiting chuck or collar". Could that be a collet? 2:15
@@icabod3374 Yep that would be a collet, lol. Saw that one too, as well as him saying "... The diamond grinding wheel is applied to a chamfered edge on one end of the blank..." Instead of saying that it's cutting (or applyING not appliED) the chamfer on one end. Also a bit humorous that he says, "... associated with carpentry..." tho most anything will cut through 99% of all woods. No real need for micro carbide drills most carpentry, probably moreso associated with metal work, fabrication, {metal} machining, etc.
I'm also a machinist, a journeyman, for just at 25 years now.
@@johnnywayne7654 yeah and then we have the ppl for whom this vid was made which are well ... lets say less likely to be versed in machinist lingo or have a clue for what any drill that is not bought at the home build store might be used for. Still it is amusing if you know.
I actually make tiny drill bits like these for a living but they are medical bone taps, it’s actually really cool how it’s done and all of the processes
First time watching a 1080p How it's Made video on TH-cam
"How a micro drillbit is made"
A little bit at a time.....
Ba-dum tiss
Gerit Flesner
And with this joke, you’re finally able to graduate father school
@@blitzwithspartan6175 Yup! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Hahahahha
That hurt to read.... Thank you
Legendary...
“It is impossible to see the difference between before and after fluting”
Shows us a picture of them side by side with a clear difference.
What a fascinating production process, evolved over decades.
"...starts with blanks of 100% Carbide, called blanks."
Lengths of 100% carbide called blanks.
Not 100% carbide, they usually contain about 10% cobalt
Hmm,
Yes,
The floor here is made of floor
@@vejymonsta3006 I had to listen to it a couple of times before I heard 'lengths'.
Years ago, a guy created a very tiny drill bit in his home shop. He was so excited about it that he sent it to NASA. NASA returned his bit with a hole drilled through it.
He tried
That man's name? Albert Einstein
@@laurencebrown1781 Einstein died in 1955. NASA wasn't created until 1958.
Christopher U.S. Smith It’s truly incredible just how much you missed the joke
@@grantcambron3597 What joke? There's no vocal inflection or LOL or emoji to indicate it was a joke.
01:28 I’ve never known anyone use a centreless grinder to grind the LENGTH of a part before. The diameter, maybe.
Yeah, there was a real lack of proofreading on this episode.
when if you press something for reduce the diameter , the length increase (atleast for metal it work)
i noticed that too haha
@@dr.shadox4927 It was a centreless grinder. Two diamond compound coated drums grind the diameter down to size, not the length
@@letsgoBrandon204 oh ok it was a grinder , nevermind in this case.
though it was like a roller pressing it.
Imagine centering the bit for hours, and then when you take it out of the jig, you tap the end agaisnt the machine and break the bit
4-5 hours to center 25 seconds to break.
"Rolled between two wheels which grinds them down to specific lenghth"
...uh yea, that's width, my dude. 🤦♂️
I would say "diameter", amigo... :)
@@amigator7789 yea, I tend to think orthographically. But, touché anyway.
You tried to one up the announcer, then got one upped in the process.
The blanks do call for a specific profile length.. Including the diameter and the back angle
I'm an aerospace and medical equipment machinist. At my workplace we use these tiny little guys to produce very complex, very compact high pressure valves, usually some kind of actuator, for use in various aerospace projects. Also they are used to machine tiny cross connections between two high flow sections to facilitate very precise mixing of liquids, usually used in some kind of medical equipment. Sometimes the tiny holes that are drilled are also used to control the opening and closing of mechanical solenoids
Astonished to see this process still involves a lot of manual labor. I was convinced this was fully automated before the video. Thanks for explaining!
The shitty China ones are automated and have bad QC most of the labor in the process have to do with quality control not actually making it
With additional CNC equipment it can be automated more. With a single machine you can grind the OD down to size and flute on the same machine
It usually is. I have no idea why the wouldn't have 3 cnc machines.
chinese drill bits are fairly inexpensive but fairly decent in performance.
I could 100% see the difference, all it takes is a close up, decent vision and a good phone
Tehran Kizaki but you just don’t get it do ya? He said it was impossible.
Handled this before, don't get stabed by this micro-drills, really, be very careful.
I once accidentally stabbed myself in the palm with a 1.55mm bit. It made a pool of blood the size of a dollar coin in my hand. Its been two years and theres still a light spot on my hand from where I stabbed myself.
@@crazitaco blood blisters are satisfying to pop tho as long as you don't leave them so long they hurt like a bitch
Best how it's made narrator ever
We break so many of these drills of such a micro scale, thought it would be nice to come see what it takes to make these little guys we utilize daily. How It IS made is never a let down, thank you.
We both now appreciate the making of these GREAT cutter more now. We review the bits here under our stereo microscope and comparator.
Lance & Patrick.
@ Thank you so much we always are in need of spelling help, and it is welcomed, Lance & Patrick.
These are the kinds of bits you don't go beating around while in use. I can only imagine how expensive they are to replace.
Look, I don't know how tight they want their tolerances on centering, but I can't imagine it would take 4-5 hours to center something like that. I've worked with precision tooling before and centering something can take time but not 4-5 hours. Whoever did the research for this episode must have been a little tired or something.
Every manufacturer has its own requirements and threshold for quality. In this video, it is clear that they were making industrial grade, precision drill bits.
I have a feeling that its per batch, rather than just 1 individual, but yeah, it seems excessive. Maybe its 4-5 minutes.
Yeah, that's what I was thinkin. He must be shit at his job if it takes him that bloody long lol
@@28russ it might make sense if you're setting up multiple tools to work together, but still it's a lot of time. Maybe they do a bunch of test runs? idk
There is a lot of mistakes in the video, probably bad translation. Once the lector talks "length", when actually he talks about diameter. Those hours of centering are probably also a big mistake, since the drill bit like this costs a few EUR from a good brand, and less than EUR from China.
Whole my studies was about mechatronic, and hours of lectures didn't present the process of micro drills production as great as here. I'm very glad that Discovery came back to roots of How It's made.
Ive used quite a few of these at work, some as small as .015 and always wondered how they could grind the geometry without breaking it. Thanks for the upload👍
The setup takes hours the machining takes seconds, as a machinist I can totally relate.
i grow them on my cacti and i harvest them every spring
As a machinist, this video is very interesting. I’ve always wondered how our small drill bits and endmills are made.
What do you use these really small bits for?
@@Aditya-wg3lp really small holes or really small features. U can’t make a tiny detailed part with a 1/2 endmill
same
@@Aditya-wg3lp I've got several of the hair-width end mills (errr...router bits) - I use them for inlaying. The most common use is for improving corners - draw a 90 degree channel with a 1/8" bit, and then run a 1/16" along the edges followed by the sub-mm one. I've also got one made specifically for ivory (I've got some mammoth ivory bits). You have to be very careful with speed and depth on these because they break super easily if the parameters are wrong, and they're not cheap to replace.
@@Aditya-wg3lp I'm an aerospace and medical supply machinist. At my workplace, we mainly use these tiny little guys to produce very complex, high pressure valves and to machine cross lines between two high flow sections to facilitate very precise mixing of liquids. Sometimes the tiny holes that are drilled are also used to control the opening and closing of mechanical solenoids
What's is this ? a drill for ants !?
I happen to see a drawing of a 10 mm thick disc which required four holes of Dia. 0.5 mm at 45 degree angle ... These holes were required to control the flow of fuel i.e. liquid hydrogen and oxygen (in liquid propellant engines i.e. aerospace industry) ... Such small holes allow for expansion of liquid to gas as well ...
@@muhammadharisnisar is there no better way to make these holes than to use a drill bit
The bits have to be at least three times bigger
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@@muhammadharisnisar that's still almost twenty thousandth.
That's huge compared to the bit in the video.
We have a catalog at work that list drills down to one thousandth dia.
You could break that by looking at it wrong !
The operator does not program the work process, they would likely SELECT the pre-made program and SET UP for the work process. The program has likely been in use for quite some time.
There goes 5 minutes of my life that I don't regret whatsoever
This was quite interesting. I worked in a printed circuit factory in early 90s as a cnc drill operator and used hundreds of small drill bits each shift. Usually sizes were between 0.3mm and 0.7mm but sometimes smaller ones were used in some special pcb.
I want to see the zero-runout chuck that can spin one of these without breaking it.
A good ER or SK collet can get you under .0002 runout.
Found this on the subject. Zero runout is easier than you thought, heh. pages.mtu.edu/~microweb/chap6/ch6-0.htm
@@sleeptyper oh?
Yeah no shit huh? A makita breaks my 1/16” drill bits with ease
@@louisedwards6681 It is based on belt driven chuck, with the belt tension nulling all slack since the chuck is pulled against diamond bearings.
1:50
That’s an air pressure gage. CRAZY accurate. To the millionth of an inch accurately.
*blanks that are 100% carbide are called blanks*
0:35
Lengths not blanks
How it’s made is one of my favorite shows ever
As a machinist, the terminology in this video made me cringe. Several times
Good thing these videos were made for the general public.
Well, as all machinists or experts in any subject would know, it takes time and money to reach high precision and quality. It’s just the same in the film making business. This film is cheap and good enough for ignorants, like 99% of everything, sadly. How this transfers to politics is frightening. 99% of a population have no clue and no desire to study past the bullshit in politician’s arguments and yet vote for them. If only we had a micrometer to figure out the bullshit from the truth it ‘d be easier.
@@scslre I'm not a machinist, just a guy who likes to tinker around with tools, and the terminology in this video made me cringe too. Lets not make excuses for poor research on their part.
Could you tell me which carbide they used?
@@SanoCrushridge the blanks are tungsten carbide. This video doesnt show any coating of the drills, but it's quite common for these drills to have some coating on them, depending on performance requirements
I have a massive love hate relationship with these drills, they are priceless for the work I do but are beyond fragile, I use one that’s 0.1mm in diameter daily but each hole way 3mm deep takes 30-45 minutes to drill, I don’t own a million dollar precision mill or lathe so this is all work done by hand on a small precision lathe and you have to feed and clear chips after only micron sized advancements each time, especially with the 0.1mm bit or it will absolutely snap
Dropped one on the ground on Friday. Broke the tip right off
3:13 - "A technician uses a magnifying tool to fine tune the placement of the blank, and ensure it's perfectly centered. This process can take four to five hours."
I would bet that Abom79 could do it in less then 3 minutes, while narrating a video for his channel. 😉
If Abom did it it would be 6’’ in diameter 😉 !
@@mrc1539 Also he would do atleast 2 scratch passes before even trying to do the real grinding...
as a manufacturer of tungsten carbide materials, I have to say the tungsten carbdie rod is very important for micro drill bits.
*puts the stock carbide in a collet* ''carefully and precisely in a collar''
That's how toothpicks are made. They take an entire tree & grind it down to the thickness of "One" toothpick.
Very cool! I use bits like these every day and I've always wondered how they're made
For what purposes its used ?
Drilling holes in circuit boards for connections. Although the bits I use must not be made like this cause they're pretty cheap, like $5 a piece or so
Advice on speeds and feeds sir?
Wow sick job dude 1:38
I can feel the Sound of a dentists drill just by watching this Video
I think the 4 to 5 hour set up is for the production of multiple batch bits not individual bits . Cheers from a Quality Control Technician with 40 years experience Down Under In Australia . P.S. at 1.29 Ground to Diameter not length .
I got a bit of a funny feeling with this video. I work all day with a 4 axis cnc. My head and world revolve around the hundredth of a mm, so when the narrator spoke in reverent tones for "a tenth of a mm", I smiled and thought "don't you mean a country mile?!".
Then I remembered that there aren't many trades that use the same scale I do.
Yes. Precision cnc lathes can hold geometric tolerances in the microns. Fiber optic applications require tight tolerances for proper operation.
these are the types of videos nobody asked for but everyone wanted
Is it bad if I have random marathons of this. I know several do their videos by heart
An EDM would be the proper choice for micro holes. We've used .015" dia. drills with success but it's not ideal. Our EDMs provide incredible results.
Can't always use an edm. Maybe the part won't fit, or you're using it for surgery, or the part isn't metal, or it's in an environment or location that prohibits the use of an edm and it can't be moved, or you can't afford an EDM. There are lots of good reasons to use these. The only downside is the rigidity is critical. You need very little runout and a very stiff drill press.
Cant edm fiberglass
In case if anyone wanted to know how a carbide material is made.
Someone's summary/comment on another video:
1. Raw materials are received as tungsten carbide powder and a binder (typically cobalt or nickel).
2. Raw materials are blended into a slurry and then dried.
3. The powder is compressed into a compacted powder material.
4. The material is machined to the desired product shape.
5. The product is sintered at 2500F in an argon pressurized environment.
6. It's quality controlled and checked. When it's a pass then they are sent out to be used.
Tommorow is my test
I'm going to sleep
TH-cam: wanna see how are micro drill bit made
Me: ofcourse
Its interesting! LOL 😄😃
I use carbide drills every day to drill in jewelry, very awesome to see this video. The wheel they use to create the shape of the tip of drill we use small wheels too, connected to our handpieces lol
Hi sir
Amazing video...
Learned how drill bit are made.
Thanks for the video...🙏👍😊
i work for medical mold shop and ive used these! Specifically for milling graphite which we later send over to EDM to burn it into steel. Very cool and expensive process. I think the smallest cutter ive used was a .007 endmill to hit tight rads. Very cool video though!
Approximately 5 hours to center it
1 second to break it
Anyone else remember watching these episodes on Science Channel at 8:00 AM?
The jig is up see! Mugsy's got ya made see! The copper's are drilled down on ya see!
XD
good to see that i can finally make my own micro bit.
You have the best vedios
The videos on this TH-cam channel are just small pieces of larger shows on the Science cable tv channel.
The bigger shows there are much better.
4:09 "it's impossible to see the difference between a bit before and after fluting" *clearly shows the difference*
Now hold a hair next to it on your screen, because that's the actual size.
Amazing info.
Happy weekend people🍀
i've watched so much huggbees i was waiting for the video to go of the rails which just didn't happen...
only saw after it was a genuine how it's made video
What came first? Micro drill bit or micro drill bit making machine.
Chicken .!!
Thousands of years ago we didn't spin rocks to drill holes, we pushed back and forth to dig holes into things, as evidenced by beaded jewelry and hand tools with the wear patterns of a digging motion.
I wanna see how factory equipment is made
I am a Mechanical Engineer. This is amazing!
we drill drills using drills so the drill can drill drills
drillception
Which came first, the drill or the drill?
wow
@@ArchangelExile , the drill.
How a plumbus is made:
First, you take the dinglepop, and you smooth it out with a bunch of schleem. The schleem is then repurposed for later batches.
Then you take the dinglebop and push it through the grumbo, where the fleeb is rubbed against it. It's important that the fleeb is rubbed, because the fleeb has all of the fleeb juice.
Then a Shlami shows up and he rubs it, and spits on it.
Then you cut the fleeb. There's several hizzards in the way.
The blaffs rub against the chumbles, and the plubus and grumbo are shaved away.
That leaves you with a regular old plumbus!
Main part that they didnt show was the precise diamond stone that grooved it
Thats what I was waiting to see. I'm guessing the wasn't a way to get a good camera angle in the machine.
As a retired watch and clock maker I have used many drills. This was interesting now I know why they can be expensive.
Finally! Some new episodes..
How is it possible that I can buy a whole set of these on Amazon for 10 bucks?
ebay 2-5 bucks
You dont buy the same type of drills as this endmill is, the drills you buy can even drill allot of the materials this "Endmill" can.
@@fristrm i dont know what you want to say,
chinese 6 year olds make them. they work for just rice
@@fristrm "Allot" is to apportion something, generally money. "Alot" is a town in India. "A lot" is more than one. Wake up and teach yourself homonyms and homophones.
Some of these things are exactly what I use to work with, I make drill bits using rollomatic machines, not very complicated & it doesn’t take that long to do a set up on these machines when doing the fluting processes.
4 hours to center a bit for a 10 second cutting operation?
Not Dave I can’t see that, as they’d be out of business. Those bits are not that expensive.
Just guessing it's for the first bit. After that you can use the same setup for the same size
@@Runkpapper not really... it seems he is centering every bit, but it for sure doesn't take 4 hours. Did some centering of tools and tool holders for rotary milling machines and those are WAY more compicated than this little thing.
A job is a job💪
@@Runkpapper I thank so to ,that makes sense 🤔
Thanks for showing us how drills were made 40 years ago.
No drills were made in this video. Did you mean 'drill bits'?
4-5 hours to center the piece?!
Definitely gonna need a chair
I love how I just watched this while actively chamfering carbide on an ANCA
A Swiss engineer hands a drill bit to a German engineer to proof that it is the smallest drill ever made.
Later, the German engineer hands it back with a hole drilled through the drill bit.
... and then the Swiss engineer sticks in the german engineer where the sun shines throu his hole.
And thus, the birth of through-spindle coolant.
love this kind of videos
The narrator of this video made me feel i’m watching how plumbus is made
@Sir Scofferoff and it‘s more accurate
I work on a Matsuura VP 800 and VP 550 so nice vid
100% carbide?
Yifan Gao Yes.
I guess he meant tungsten carbide
Very interesting. Thank you.
I Used these drilled in the 1960s we had to buy them from Russia we were unable to manufacture them ourselves they were called spinks drill for thousands of an inch across You had to use a microscope
The centerless grinder grinds the metal to a specific diameter and not to a length. I know because I used to run one of these grinders.
Sadly, i broke it in 3 seconds
Dang! If packaging has to be done carefully, I can't imagine what that delicate little bit could drill.
If your drill press can hold it perfectly straight, you're fine. It's very strong when compressed. But it can't be bent at all.
Not 'Made in China'? 🤯
Various versions of this story of sporting one-upmanship may have started in 1939, something like:
A manufacturer proudly sent a microscopically thin wire to the Swiss who returned it with a nice hole drilled from the side.
Next surely precision-machined quarks
Not from the side. They drilled a hole through it, alongside :D
3:32 “this process can take 4 to 5 hours” now that’s some bullshit
I'm an hobbyist working on small scale models. As such I have *drills* (not drill bits) that go down to 0.25mm. None of them have shanks that size, but continue with the base diameter throughout their whole length. Of course I would only use them in my lathe as, hand held, I would just wobble and they would break!
What kind of tool holder do you use to hold those drills in, special collets? And how do you make sure you don't force them in to whatever is in your chuck too quickly to the point of them breaking? I imagine you must have some very fine motor control to keep them in tact and now screw up whatever you're working on?
So many nomenclature errors..As a Machinist with over twenty years experience, I can tell you a centerless grinder grinds the WIDTH of a part, not length. The blank was loaded into a collet chuck, not a clamp. And he was checking the flutes with a Optical Comparator, and a portable microscope. Not to mention most Machinist's could see the difference between the fluted and non fluted pieces with the naked eye (unless they are really old)..Any thing else I missed fellow Machinist's?
I appreciate your comments and experience! 20 years puts you in an era with many modern techniques and technology. Proud to say my uncle was selected to be a member of machinists on the Manhattan project (he didn't know it at the time). God only knows how they machined these intricate parts in the old school!
@@US_Joe Very cool! They machined them almost the same way we do today, with a lot more skill though, lol. They had optical flats back in the forties like we do now, and you can check flatness down to Millions of a inch with no problem. Johansen Gage blocks were a thing back then too (although very expensive and fairly new) and their so true to size and flat that you can wring two blocks together end to end and they will stick together without magnetism oil or adhesive. some say the gap between blocks is so small air molecues don't fit and it creates a vacuum. The main difference is the amount of time it took them to machine the parts on the manual machines vs CNC machines we have now.
Just a lot of stupid things. They said chuck or collar and I think they meant collet. They also said it holds the carbide perfectly still but the spindle is clearly running. Good call on the O/C not being a "microscope". And the comment at the end about carbide being strong made my skin crawl. Nothing compares to the feeling of dropping a solid carbide boring bar.... Speaking on behalf of a friend of course
@@Awegner176 OMG...my skin just crawled..lol
So are these really carbide or HSS?
For people who understand how "secretive" carbide manufacturing techniques are, this 5-minute clip is absolute gold.
Come on make a joke
my life!
Machinist's make better lovers..First we drill it, then we tap it, then we screw it..