Incredible Machining: Parts Made In Seconds Using 8 Spindles

I work in a small shop and all the parts I make are for in house assembly. so I can have periods where I have no work so I'd fill my time by speeding up my run times which just lead to longer periods with no work.

I had a supervisor that used to do this, try and squeeze every tiny bit of time from the programme. Taking the tools to the absolute limit of their capabilities, which in theory is great, but unless your going to monitor the machine constantly, in case of tool failure, sometimes it's got to be better to loose a little time per part knowing that every part will be fine, than gaining some time but loosing it on tool breakage and sort outs

mad respect to you guys for being dedicated to delivering free education and insight into machining at a high level

It was amazing seeing this run in person while I was there and for Donnie giving us a personal explanation of it. Thank you Titan for allowing us to have a tour of your shop and too Trevor for giving us the amazing tour. Also thank you to the rest of the Titans for showing us everything you guys are doing and saying hi to us. Thanks Kyle

In 1965, fresh out of High School, I got a job as an apprentice tool designer for a screw machine shop. The shop had about 30 multiple spindle screw machines, and a half dozen single spindle machines. I think the biggest were Acme-Gridley RA-8. 8 spindle behemoths, clouds of cutting oil and tons of chips. I only worked there about a year, then I worked for President Johnson, he was Commander in Chief, I was a Private.

I always tell the people I train you can make bad parts just as fast as good ones lol

I used to set multi spindles many years ago, but instead of CNC they where cam operated and utilised form tools, our multi spindle bay were manufacturing millions of parts per week. Single spindle auto's were making olives 3 at a time with 6 second cycle

I'm from South Africa and just love these videos

That was definitely worth the wait to see it make parts. That machine is insane with 7 seconds cycles. it just blow my mind. 🤯

Golly man, that machine is very advanced! I remember working at a shop and we were machining the exhaust elbows for Holset, they went on the dodge Cummins turbo diesels. We were required to get 20 parts an hour done, and I was always in competition with 2nd shift on who could get the most parts done per shift so I messed with the feeds and speeds on the machine and figured out I was able to get 30 parts an hour done without wearing down the inserts more. No wonder why my boss loved me, come to find out, I saved a lot of time for the cycle time of the parts 🤙🏽😉

Old school manual machinist here. Really neat to watch these incredibly amazing machines and the guys who are pros at running them. I do find it surprising that you don't get unacceptable dings in your finished parts, especially on the threads of heavy brass fittings, dropping into the bins the way they do.

Very impressive this machining so powerful it can only handle by barry

Been running a couple 8x26's for a few years now and about to get a third and they are wonderful machines. Get them setup correctly and they will just pump out parts. We've had it run a single part for weeks at a time with online minor offset changes.

Always enjoy your videos Donny keep up the great work!

Thank you 👍, as always Donnie's video = fun and super informative about swiss machining

I'm impressed with what these machines are capable of doing. I'm even more impressed at the brains of the company that designed and manufactured this machine!

It's crazy how intuitive that Tornos software is. Great job showing us what is possible with these amazing machines.

really cool to see the in-depth optimization

Honestly this was a cool video. Not sure I'll ever be in the market for a multi-spindle Swiss-type machine, so it's nice to see a break down of some of the features as an onlooker.

Sheesh! Great video Donnie! This is super impressive.