Inside a Chinese Desktop CNC Mill Factory
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ต.ค. 2023
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Today we're going to see how desktop CNC mills are made. We're going inside the Makera factory, a relatively new Chinese startup that went from a few guys who wanted to make drones in their spare time, to running a very successful kickstarter and building out a complete factory. We'll see how they make very accurate machines, starting from the raw aluminum, all the way to putting a finished product in a crate, ready to ship out.
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thanks for the videos good to see you uploading again ;]
23:36 - GO TO THAT CRATE MAKING MACHINE FACTORY NEXT! 😎👍
I went to school for this and sadly dropped out and it's brutal to see how advanced laptops are these days with gpus and stuff. Just incredible how awesome that career would have been known I had a t9 flipphone that couldn't splash video backgrounds. lol. well it could, if you could "hack it" hahahahaha
O-oh, looks like StrangeParts doesn't want to have anything to do with CCP or Uygur concentration camps in china :-(
A CNC company drilling holes by hand.. that pretty much sums up why the thing is so overpriced..
So happy that you're feeling better enough to be posting videos again. You're one of my favorite creators and I love to learn about what you show us each video.
Same here 🎉
this 1000% so glad to be seeing scotty posting again
Same here, although I love seeing this milling machines factory. It's good to see some more adequate machines for makers and passionate people, as actually are 3d printers nowdays
Same here
same
huge props to the owner for showing you around and talking in english!
Agreed, Josh and the team are very open and involved in the community. Excellent people to work with!
Anywhere people can read some reviews? A quick google search says concerns of having to wait a long time before shipping. Is this still a problem?
Huge props to the CCP to let this filmed.
@@frenchLeon Another brainwashed
18:18 That dial indicator was quite funny - "Mituitung"! 😄
I've got a no-name 10 bucks caliper at home, and stuck a label on its box that says "oyotutiM". 😅
😂😂😂😂
That Mituitung indicator 😁
Awesome look into this company, their transparency is great and it's a good example of mid-large scale manufacturing
Yeah spotted that Muititung too lol
I love the enthusiasm you’re showing the owner, and his English is excellent. I’m pretty sure though most of your audience (like me) are engineering based, and have huge interest in how things are made! So I’d love to see more tours like this please.
The owner is so enthusiastic and knowledgeable, too! He's living the dream for a lot of folks.
Maybe it's partly because I have a Carvera and was super impressed by the build quality, but I feel like this is one of your best factory tour videos. And that's saying something, for the king of factory tour videos.
And props to Makera for being so open. I know it's marketing, but it didn't feel like any kind of sanitized smoke and mirrors show.
What kind of stuff do you make on it? It's such a small machine overall
@@gorak9000 I'm not the best to answer that one, as I have tool acquisition syndrome and most of this stuff sits around unused. But probably the thing I want to make most is PCBs. I managed to get it working with my old X-Carve (th-cam.com/video/I8VJZX6hagE/w-d-xo.html) but with the tool changer, enclosure, and all-around tighter build on the Carvera, I think I'll get better results. But I made one board and then the ADHD kicked in, so I need to find the motivation to dial in the workflow someday.
Yeah, this video makes you able to see exactly what goes into the build quality.
@@ChrisMasto Heh, it's totally ok, I have a full sized VMC in my garage (30" x 20" x20" travels 15HP spindle, 5HP axis servos on all 3 axes - weighs 6 tons - takes up a ton of floor space) - I don't know exactly what I'm going to make on it either, but I definitely have the work envelope to make big stuff! (once I get the thing fixed and re-assembled). The thing with PCBs is they're so cheap to just order them online these days - only really makes sense to do it yourself if you need PCBs like in an hour, but that said, I want to try to do PCBs on my machine too when it's running again. Funny, I bought my huge machine for way less than a Carvera, but of course I've put a ton of time (and some money) into fixing it too. Not counting time, I'm only slightly more expensive than the carvera, but with a full sized machine, with spindle probing and toolsetter too (if you're patient, good deals do come up on that stuff on the bay)!
@@ChrisMasto Oh, and also, kudos for being a person that actually has some videos on their channel! I have some on mine as well of my machine, if you go back a bit!
Thank you Josh and Makera for inviting us all into your factory. What an amazing experience. Thank you Scotty for making the effort to show us all that "Made in China" actually means a lot.
So many custom tools and jigs, this is very cool! I love how Josh knows every part of the process and the person manning it, huge props and respect.
I have a Chinese friend who has worked in the factories like this, they are skilled professional from universities and they are proud of their workmanship.
I am a packaging engineer in the US. We outsource our cratees inside the US. It aint cheap but its so much more efficient and there is also some wood regulations
Its so good to see you on the factory floors again showing how things actually are inside the factories. Like you said in the episode, not everything is perfect and machine automated. People have to understand some stuff is pretty hands on customlike.
Love seeing the smile on Mr. Guo's faces while he is working on the lid of the machine! 10:55
Great to see you back at it and feeling better. Thanks for sharing.
18:19 You can see the discomfort in his face when the Mitutoyo knock-off dial indicator is being filmed. 😂😂
And not a pair safety glasses to be seen anywhere on the shop floor 😢
Scotty, I'm so happy that you're well enough to do the videos you love again. I've been following since your collab with LTT making a PC out of parts from Shenzhen and love watching what you do.
Super happy to see a new video! The lack of safety glasses in use in some parts of this caused me a little pain.
I wasn't expecting this to be as cool as it was. So much fun. And as usual, I'm humbled as a one language speaker. Your guide's English was so impressive!
See if you casn find an aluminum extrusion plant that will give you a tour!
Yes! It's already on my list.
16:56 ... did you just touch my calibrated machine?! Haha, thanks for the tour!
Good to see some interesting factory visits again :ø)
Woke up to a Strange Parts uploaded 35 seconds ago... Gonna be a good day
Either be more precise or stop making things up to sound impressive.
by far the best ad for cavera I have seen. It is one thing to send review units to content creators, but it is a completly different level to give a factory tour.
when I can afford the space, I will get a carvera
Love this kind of video, glad to see more from you. Hope you're feeling well
I love factory tours so much, Please keep doing them!
I love those factors tours, please keep doing them. You explain stuff so well and it's cool to watch the workers make stuff.
Great precision and detail work in the whole production assembly line!
Fantastic content Scotty. I work in multiple engineering methods, & this video is really up my street.
Extrusion manufacturing next please. 👍🏽
I'm amazed that they don't mind telling you prices , talking how whats made , showing everything
everything looks like made with passion and like a hobby not just to earn as much as possible like some other companies
Ya, products with near zero allowances, really don't leave any wiggle room for time, component quality, & cost cutting
...I wouldn't fantasize much about such quality and care throughout the entirety of production being very widespread 😅
I love my Carvera! I have been hoping that a factory tour would happen at some point so this is like a dream come true!
great tour and wonderful work by the carvera guys
Amazing video! Always amazed by the creativity and custom-built machines of factories like these.
Fantastic factory. Great to see so many components made in-house.
I do love these tours, it's quite astonishing to see how rapidly China's manufacturing has advanced over the last couple of decades, but what I like most is seeing the people behind the manufacturing, they're just like you and I trying to earn money for food and shelter. Looking forward to the next tours, and of course it's great to see you so spritely and enthusiastic again Scotty, thank you for the content 😊
Im so happy youre getting back to doing factory tours. It really shows how amazing the chinese owners and workers are which a lot of people in the west dont appreciate as much. All we get fed is the propoganda
The last few factory tours where amazing! Love seeing proud people showing you around and explain their process!
Such a nice guy! He really seemed like he knew the in an outs of this machine and the manufacturing process.
This is a lot more boutique and smalltime operation than I expected, interesting.
An incredibly quality looking factory; I with them HUGE success.
Awesome factory tour! Love your work and looking forward to more! Love to see some CM's for common household stuff or more large scale assembly lines, or precision scientific equipment like microscopes or telescopes - just so much cool manual and automated manufacturing going on over there!
When there is a new video posted on your channel, it always brings joy! Thanks for these awesome videos
Good to see you are on the mend and making new content.
Sometimes when I see the Made In China branding, its easy to think the product was just made by some facesles state machine factory. Scotty helps to personalize these businesses, showing that in fact some of these companies are just little mom and pop startups. These factory tours really help to remind me that there are people behind the manufacturing not just machines.
Actually, most factories in China are basically mom and pop type of operations. Maybe about 30-100 workers per manufacturer. Like Scotty explained its because of their huge network of nearby factories that they can outsource most of their components to someone that specializes in making just that component.
@@WARnTEA That's what amazed me about manufacturing in China. Some factories could have only a few employees and a handful of equipment, but there are maybe a dozen similar operations in the same area, all making the same parts.
I was expecting everything to be a single mammoth manufacturing complex.
I have one of these Carvera too and it's a very nicely built machine. Enjoyed this factory tour very much.
I removed the spindle and was surprised by the dowel pins too.
Wow, Scotty. You've really done these guy's and their factory massive justice. Josh was an incredible host, and his English was on point.
There are far too many negative stories about Chinese made products, and people who only buy junk from Ebay don't see or appreciate the other side of the production and sales world.
I dont own any of their equipment. However, I've really enjoyed this video.
Unlike a TV production of "How it's Made," you know exactly what you are talking about, which adds incredible context and trust
Take care. See you in the next video from Austin in the 🇬🇧
Great to see you back in China again. These factory tours are so interesting!
I love when people put human faces on Chinese factories, because while China isn't known for work safety or making their own tech, I think it's largely an unfair blanket statement and there's many cool companies like Worker (high performance nerf), Miniware (niche it equipment for hobbyists), Bambulab (super fast great user experience 3d printers) and more and these companies aren't the companies mining coal or smelting metals. They're creating some cool stuff and often using coop automation to do so (Bambulab for instance makes 3d printers like one would make desktop pc cases).
It is great to see a manufacturing team that are clearly skilled at the job, just seeing the build process and the care taken tells me that the end product is likely to be accurate and reliable.
I love all the precision quality control steps
These factory videos are so interesting! Great work!
Always love your videos, and so happy to see you're feeling well again!
Good to see you back!!
This is the perfect video, your style matches perfectly. This is an easy and enjoyable watch for me.
Glad you are back in video show... awesome
I've had my eye on these since they were first announced and this video makes me want one even more. My only problem is I physically don't have any space in my home for it.
I need a bigger home with space for a workshop and once that happens, I am absolutely buying a Carvera.
The nebula video is great, been a subscriber for 2 years now and have enjoyed it.
love the factory tours.
Great to see you back at it! Super impressed with the owner’s knowledge and language skills!
amazing video, i love seeing how things are made
I'm happy to see that you're posting content again. I hope you're doing much better. You sure seem to be. I love seeing how things are made.
Excellent format!
Very cool experience, I would LOVE to get a chance in real life to do a factory tour over there! I have worked in some factories when I was much younger (20s) and have some experience with this type of work, but nothing digital or electronic, mostly machining work. Thank you Scotty
this was really entertaining and informative :) Great job as usual
I love factory tours thank you for doing these.
Love you man, u r doing the greatest job for budding engineers❤
Such a cool CNC design. Can't wait to try one out someday. Great vid
Great video! Looks like an awesome machine
Carvera guys are awesome. Best Kickstarter i've ever backed. Glad they are seeing success.
Wow is this video made for me, because this is what I wanted to see the most.
Finally New Video from Strange parts
My god i want that machine even more now! :D Thank you for a nice video :)
2:30, bros rocking the safty squints
Awesome tour!
18:19 -- I like the knockoff dial indicator that uses the same M as Mitutoyo.
I'm happy you're back!
You should make a second video on your recovery! I'd love to learn the secret sauce that helped you (if those concussion experts are willing to share)
Also great video about manufacturing in China! It's cool to see how things are made
I think the most surprising thing was that adorable tiny LiPo battery in the probe and the fact their big CNC for making side panels only cost them about $1,500. I guess that makes sense though if the thing is a kit made practically down the street.
So good to see your videos
A lot of this technology I was doing back in 1990’s, routers, cnc in Australia nothing new to me here, I was quite lucky to learn and use this technology in its heyday through the “digital transition” when it was at the cutting edge at the time, now it’s what’s old is new again to most people.
@18:20 gotta love the good 'ol Mituitung dial indicator haha
more factory tourrrr!!!
Wow. We never think about Chinese factories like this. Clean, safe, and a nice work environment!
Great video editing!
Happy to see you back
great product, nice factory!
Few people realize that for a few parts, you can grab the piece, throw it in a drill press and tap a hole with a jig vs. waiting for a CNC machine to change axis, recenter, etc...just quicker to do it by hand.
Cnc is almost instant now though?
I got mine yesterday! Lovely video!
Very clean factory! Very nice.
This is fantastic
Please do a factory tour of a foldable crate factory. We would love to see more ingenious and innovative packing material.
Nice video, the carvera is still on my list.
I am new to your channel. I am glad the algorithm found me. I like this kind of content and it helps me grow as an artist.
I program CNC as a profession. Great video. It did make me want to see more, i suspect with a little effort you could ease up on the bottleneck.
Great video. Nice that you had such a good host.
Cool! Thanks for sharing it. ✌️
Its amazing how this guy knows every little thing about every process of the build. Amazing
13:50 That's amazing
It's very interesting to see that level of work done in-house, since so much manufacturing in China seems to be delegated out to specialty factories.
OOOO I'm looking forward to the WS2812 manufacturing! Those type of packages are really cool
LOVED THIS VIDEO!!! THANK YOU!!
sorry, did not try to yell!
Hahahahah this felt so hard like that Strange Parts was probing for inside advice as maybe he wants to start his own cnc mill factory overseas. But awesome video man its awesome to have you back!❤
Was waiting to see the mill in action!!!!