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Posted: 2/14/2012 4:43:44 PM EDT

Pretty cool.

Mt Grandmother lost half of two fingers to a stamping machine like in the video.

She used to work in a factory that stamped out metal toys.

Posted: 2/14/2012 4:48:55 PM EDT

[#1]

The DVR is overflowing with so many How It's Made episodes I haven't even watched them all... good stuff. Reminds me of episodes of Mr. Rogers where he'd show the inside of a factory making peanutbutter, crayons or playground balls or whatever.

Posted: 2/14/2012 4:49:22 PM EDT

[#2]

I love watching how things are made.

Posted: 2/14/2012 4:52:35 PM EDT

[#3]

Snap-Ons?

Posted: 2/14/2012 4:54:03 PM EDT

[#4]

Pretty cool

Posted: 2/14/2012 4:54:17 PM EDT

[#5]

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I live watching how things are made.

The ingenuity that people are capable of is simply amazing. We are the ancient aliens.

Posted: 2/14/2012 4:55:23 PM EDT

[#6]

Quoted:

Snap-Ons?

No, Channel-Lock.

Here is how Snap On sockets are made.

Posted: 2/14/2012 4:56:12 PM EDT

[#7]

Quoted:
Snap-Ons?

Looks like Channel-Lock

Posted: 2/14/2012 4:56:47 PM EDT

[#8]

Quoted:

Quoted:

Snap-Ons?

No, Channel-Lock.

Here is how Snap On sockets are made.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtcYB-mW6i0

Thanks for the vid...

Posted: 2/14/2012 5:00:40 PM EDT

[#9]

I always find most fascinating the combination of heat treating and cooling that has been figured out to improve the metal for best strength based on its intended use. It's interesting that even way back before an understanding of materials at an atomic level, metal workers had learned to a degree to do this.

Posted: 2/14/2012 5:02:30 PM EDT

[#10]

That show is one of the best things ever on TV.

Posted: 2/14/2012 5:06:22 PM EDT

[#11]

Cool stuff, now someone find me a video showing how ball bearings are made and I will die a happy man.

Posted: 2/14/2012 5:10:55 PM EDT

[#12]

Quoted:

That show is one of the best things ever on TV.

I agree. The wife, however, seems to think i only like it because I'm easily entertained by shiny stuff spinning really fast.

Posted: 2/14/2012 5:12:43 PM EDT

[#13]

I'm surprised there's still that much hands on work required.

Posted: 2/14/2012 5:14:08 PM EDT

[#14]

If you think that is interesting, you should see Snap-on Tools Company Milwaukee Plant. I used to work for Snap-on at one of their specialty tool plants. The Milwaukee plant has a robotic cell that does pliers start to finish with no human interaction. It was amazing to see.

Posted: 2/14/2012 5:16:18 PM EDT

[#15]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Snap-Ons?

No, Channel-Lock.

Here is how Snap On sockets are made.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtcYB-mW6i0

I saw that a few weeks ago. Couldn't believe they were swaged like that.

I always figured they were forged.

Posted: 2/14/2012 5:16:32 PM EDT

[#16]

Tag, as I can't turn the volume up loud enough to hear right now. I LOVE this kind of stuff.

Posted: 2/14/2012 5:19:51 PM EDT

[#17]

pretty cool videos

Posted: 2/14/2012 5:21:04 PM EDT

[#18]

Quoted:

Quoted:

That show is one of the best things ever on TV.

I agree. The wife, however, seems to think i only like it because I'm easily entertained by shiny stuff spinning really fast.

Best show on TV, and my wife also loves it.

Posted: 2/14/2012 5:21:15 PM EDT

[#19]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Snap-Ons?

No, Channel-Lock.

Here is how Snap On sockets are made.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtcYB-mW6i0

Accurate description of how Snap-on's high volume sockets and extensions are made at their Milwaukee WI plant. The lower volume & bigger tools are made via different processes, as the cold forming machines are slow to changeover, and geared towards high volume runs. I miss working for Snap-on Tools Manufacturing - a good company, great product.

Posted: 2/14/2012 5:21:41 PM EDT

[#20]

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Cool stuff, now someone find me a video showing how ball bearings are made and I will die a happy man.

nice to know you

ball bearings

Posted: 2/14/2012 5:26:29 PM EDT

[#21]

Awesome, but all that fire and super heated metal scares the bajesus out of me.

Posted: 2/14/2012 5:29:24 PM EDT

[#22]

Tagged

Posted: 2/14/2012 5:31:20 PM EDT

[#23]

Quoted:

Cool stuff, now someone find me a video showing how ball bearings are made and I will die a happy man.

Posted: 2/14/2012 5:33:51 PM EDT

[#24]

Quoted:
I'm surprised there's still that much hands on work required.

You have to figure there is - or it would be cheaper to make more of it here.

Posted: 2/14/2012 5:37:51 PM EDT

[#25]

Cool.

Posted: 2/14/2012 5:42:00 PM EDT

[#26]

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Cool stuff, now someone find me a video showing how ball bearings are made and I will die a happy man.

OK.

Posted: 2/14/2012 5:44:50 PM EDT

[#27]

Count the balls.

Posted: 2/14/2012 5:48:04 PM EDT

[#28]

My former boss Brooks narrates all of the new HIM episodes.

Posted: 2/14/2012 5:53:28 PM EDT

[#29]

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Reminds me of episodes of Mr. Rogers where he'd show the inside of a factory making peanutbutter, crayons or playground balls or whatever.

its amazing he went from Vietnam sniper to a beautiful day in the neighborhood.............

Posted: 2/14/2012 5:54:29 PM EDT

[#30]

Quoted:
I always find most fascinating the combination of heat treating and cooling that has been figured out to improve the metal for best strength based on its intended use. It's interesting that even way back before an understanding of materials at an atomic level, metal workers had learned to a degree to do this.

Yes it is impressive. Those are all the steps that China doesn't do.

Posted: 2/14/2012 5:54:45 PM EDT

[#31]

Netflix has tons of the How It's Made videos.

Posted: 2/14/2012 5:56:24 PM EDT

[#32]

I didn't like the part about the ball divider.

Posted: 2/14/2012 6:07:29 PM EDT

[#33]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Cool stuff, now someone find me a video showing how ball bearings are made and I will die a happy man.

nice to know you

ball bearings

Yeah,I DVR,d that episode thinking they were gonna show how BALL bearing was gonna be made. I was pissed after two minutes.

Posted: 2/15/2012 3:10:30 AM EDT

[#34]

Quoted:

My former boss Brooks narrates all of the new HIM episodes.

"ROBUT"!!!

Posted: 2/15/2012 3:14:34 AM EDT

[#35]

Love that show. Netflix has something like 11 or 14 seasons of it on instant streaming.

Posted: 2/15/2012 3:28:38 AM EDT

[#36]

While it's cool watching stuff being made, I'm even more fascinated by the machinery involved.

Posted: 2/15/2012 3:43:47 AM EDT

[#37]

Neat

Posted: 2/15/2012 3:48:45 AM EDT

[#38]

Quoted:
While it's cool watching stuff being made, I'm even more fascinated by the machinery involved.

Yeah same here! It is amazing to see the inside of factories, mind boggling.

Quoted:

Quoted:
Cool stuff, now someone find me a video showing how ball bearings are made and I will die a happy man.

nice to know you

ball bearings

Oh jeeze, I couldn't stop giggling "Rough Balls"

I need to grow up

Posted: 2/15/2012 3:55:55 AM EDT

[#39]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Cool stuff, now someone find me a video showing how ball bearings are made and I will die a happy man.

OK.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONz6S48QgEk

MAde in Canada. How many come in a bag?

Posted: 2/15/2012 3:59:37 AM EDT

[#40]

I'm drooling over the snap on vid

Posted: 2/15/2012 4:47:01 AM EDT

[#41]

How bacon is made.

Posted: 2/15/2012 4:47:32 AM EDT

[#42]

Posted: 2/15/2012 5:10:26 AM EDT

[#43]

Quoted:
While it's cool watching stuff being made, I'm even more fascinated by the machinery involved.

This. It's amazing! Who designs and builds those?

Posted: 2/15/2012 5:11:05 AM EDT

[#44]

Quoted:

Quoted:

While it's cool watching stuff being made, I'm even more fascinated by the machinery involved.

This. It's amazing! Who designs and builds those?

We need a 'How it's made' episode on the machines that make other things.

Posted: 2/15/2012 5:15:33 AM EDT

[#45]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Reminds me of episodes of Mr. Rogers where he'd show the inside of a factory making peanutbutter, crayons or playground balls or whatever.

its amazing he went from Vietnam sniper to a beautiful day in the neighborhood.............

Nope, He was pretty cool though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Rogers#False_rumors

A false rumor claims that Fred Rogers was once a U.S. Marine sniper in the Vietnam War. The rumor appeared on the Internet in 1994 and re-emerged several times over the next ten years, most notably after his death in 2003. However, Rogers never served in any branch of the military. Beginning in 1963, Rogers developed the Misterogers program for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. In 1966, he moved back to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the U.S. where he produced Mister Rogers' Neighborhood through the height of U.S. military involvement in Vietnam. Related claims that Rogers had a number of military tattoos are also entirely false