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Great video!

*cough formlabs cough*

No idea where you got Australia from but he is American.

Insightful video trough and trough. Thank you.

I've been enjoying your videos. I identify a lot with how you think and operate. Keep it up man

I didn't know someone would be handing out gold today.

Hi, thanks for sharing your thoughts and insights. Be sure to not miss out on OG 3d printed ceramics guy - Jonathan Keep

I absolutely love your videos! Would you consider doing one on career advice? I’m about to finish my mechanical engineering degree, but I’ve realized that I’d really like to work with my hands. Any advice on how to find a good place to gain practical experience would be greatly appreciated. Greetings from Germany!

The nice part is that if he messed up a print he can easily reuse the material. It looks like he can't stop the clay flow the moment he started printing because of the pressure builded up in the tube. Otherwise a two coloured extruder would be interesting.

"another masterpiece, another masterpiece, then I just started throwing things away" Thank you for these little quips. They sting sometimes because they hit home so well. It seems like so many of us starting out need to have that direction to focus on business and repeatability quicker.

I totally agree when your part comes out of the mold you should not be left with a lot finish work.

It appears to me now that most things you mention about cleanliness and efficiency are reflected in easycomposites' videos. Didn't spot that in the past. Also, I've just put my resin measuring scale into a plastic bag 🙂

When it comes to his printing methods, they're not very efficient and follow his beauty-over-efficiency ideology. Using a large amount of supports is not ideal, both from an efficiency of material usage (so much material is wasted) and from an efficiency of time spent (he would have wasted a large amount of time removing supports and post-processing the parts to remove support burrs and marks). It's clear he designed the parts for aesthetics first-and they DO look amazing-rather than designing them for FDM printing.

You earned a subscriber. I love seeing your point of view. I found RTA’s videos and loved them cause I aspire to design stuff with that level of “quality”(being subjective). But I’m in similar shoes cause I figure out things as I go and try to improve efficiency in my own ways so your perspective from experience gives me that “wow he’s right I didn’t think about that” feeling. And your mold products make some beautiful food. Your delivery and wisdom in your craft is wonderful to hear in a world were hands on work has slowly been sheltered away and turned into an art in many industries.

I am not a mold maker, I have no desire to be a mold maker. With that said, I can't stop watching thess videos! Michael, your wisdom shows through your critique. It comes from a positive place and I LOVE it! Keep doing these and keep being yourself. I'm learning some much that I didn't think I needed to learn. It's like watching these 30 year old wood workers make cabinet while I tell them they just need to watch old Episode of "The New Yankee Workshop". Everything they are doing was done better and year before by the GOAT, Norm Abrams.

Is he using Laser Stereo Lithorgaphy or LED panel?

I like the metaphor of 'monkeys eating the rocks'. I work in product design for a completely different industry, and like to emphasize the 'build, measure, learn' cycle of product development. There is so much to learn from doing quick prototype/proof of concept testing, and it keeps you from sinking a large amount of resources into a rock that monkeys are just going to eat.

Isn't that an injection molded product? Or is there a fan market where people pay 300 - 400 $ per piece?

When I found his first video on his charger build I thought, how is anyone going to make money like that? How much will he need to charge and how many people will be willing to pay that for a phone charger? I have worked for 12 + 25 years in two smaller electronic manufacturing companies. (retired two years ago) Making our own industrial control electronics, along with design and manufacturing for other small volume companies. I did electronic design which included the hardware design, test jigs, support for legacy designs. It takes a lot of effort to produce a good product. At the end of the day we still need to make money from it. It needs to add value for the customer.

don't eat the rocks

I do bit of acrylic fabrication. I highly recommend sourcing the old Rohm & Haas fabrication manuals from the 1940s-1970s (ebay has been a good source). A wealth of information for small and large scale work. The manual "Working with Plexiglas" is well-suited for the hobbyist, whereas the "design and fabrication" manuals focus on the larger production.

Order. Great Video. Sub.

You missed the first part where he said for a one man shop efficiency

Thanks for the video! Great advice

I think most people that haven't endured some engineering design review meetings do not understand you were positive about his process. Great to see knowledgeable folks sharing information. Thank you

thank you for making this video! i'm not in this field but i find it really interesting to watch :)

I've been working on developing highly serviceable lithium battery modules (easy to open up and replace bad cells or all cells) for about 5 years and financed a ShopSabre cnc router with a decent spindle in 2020 to learn cam, become proficient at producing parts with a cnc, and produce fiberglass, engineering plastics, copper, and aluminum parts. Progressing through the different tiers of machining strategy and fixture approaches has been such a enjoyable process. Some of the parts involved with making electrical contact to cells are small and I need to be producing 1000s if not 10,000s each week. For example a fiberglass "carrier" for a .5mm diameter engineered wire contact, carrier is only 1mm thick and 4.5mm in diameter with a .6mm hole in its center. Another small part is a copper contact pin which goes between wire contact in carrier and lithium cells, pin is flanged to be self captive in a simple circular pocket. Ended up creating fixture plates that can hold 500 copper or fiberglass rods vertically. They use a wedge clamp approach where a "vise block" with a 45deg angled face and a thick wedge that has bolts which push it down when tightened displacing vise block into rod stock clamping them (rod stock is 5.5mm or .25in diameter). Have to tighten little over a dozen bolts to clamp all 500 rods, able to produce 10-20 carriers and contact pins from each piece of rod stock using undercut machining like slotting and chamfering tools to machine top and bottom edges of these small parts without having a precision op2 for chamfering, they easily break off rod stock roughly 90% finished except for a facing op on side2 which doesn't need precision in XY only Z. The wedge for clamping is kind of complicated because each contact area for all 500 vise blocks has a machined in flexture like a leaf spring to accommodate slight stock diameter changes. This episode is so perfect because so much of the choices I make are focused around simplicity, being non biased as much as possible and only introduce complexity like the flexture example if absolutely needed. About to be producing 1000s of cast resin 24v and 48v battery module enclosures, I could easily be the guy you're critiquing and over complicate fixtures and molds (also love CAD and design) and end up not being very efficient in production and method but thanks to your insights and also my own past experience over the last 4 years I'm at the point where that isn't what I'm catering to. Can't thank you enough for these critique and mindset episodes!

I come from a software engineering background and a lot of what you're saying also translates to the software world. There's a HUGE difference between working on some software for yourself and making an actual product.

41:47 "They do now, and I betcha they get a lot of monkey contracts" lmao

I'm enjoying the back and forth with the person behind the camera.

Been doing this trade for over 20 years. We all start out like him and end up like you. I call it being too clever to pay the rent.

I really appreciate this story telling and giving your community some of perspective! Also cannot stress enough about PPE. This way of thinking applies not only to physical product making but other processes like software engineering and entrepreneurship in general. I’m also dyslexic 💛

Hi Michael, This video could not have come at a better time. I'm in kind of the same boat as the RTA guy, designed my product and felt like I was done more than a a year ago. And I feel like I've been eating rocks all this time in a way. (I'm trying to optimize the design, make it easier to produce, get production streamlined etc.) But I think for consumer products that is sometimes kind of nessecary. (I'm curious what you think) I have an embedded engineering background and there is this 80/20 rule where 80% of progress is made in the first 20% of the projects time and the rest of the 80% of the project is only good for 20% of progress or so. Once you get in this 80% range it is really difficult to distinguish what needs to be done and where you're just obsessing over things or where your OCD takes the upper hand. Having people to talk to that are in the same boat would be great but I honestly don't know anyone IRL that does anything close to the type of project i'm doing now. Besides the creating part, do you have any advice on the sales part of the business? I can imagine a lot of other creatives struggle with selling their projects and marketing them. For me it's mostly a mental hurdle, I have a rough idea of the steps that I would have to take to sell my products but I also kind of don't have a clue.. Like contacting reviewers and going to shops in person and talking to them would be a good start but I feel very much out of place when doing it and need a lot more practice i'm afraid..

I am watching you guys for a while now and i would like to point out how much story telling, editing, everything improved over time. Videos are really entertaining and informative. Amazing work.

I've recently gotten into mold making, and I'm finding immense value in these videos. Thank you for sharing your knowledge - I've learned a great deal! Regarding the design of the phone holder's base, it seems to me that the creator intentionally made it a separate piece. This allows for the addition of weighted shot to provide stability and prevent the holder from tipping. Sand is also a really good idea and might save some steps. Also less expensive. Given that the base needs to be a separate piece anyway, it makes sense to design it with aesthetics in mind. At least, that's my interpretation.

Like you said for a full time viewer you can understand why the mold is not a big piece of silicone he aalready showed the design of the tube and explaind that it will cause a problem in demolding+having a clean empty hole which is larger in both extremities but thin in the middle . From my pov it is overcomplicated but if you have it as a requirement his solution is good and it was the first time i saw resin casting combined with an already uv resin printed part

I should tell you in law i pour out words then edit into a crafted filing. It seems application of art follows certain patterns. Much aas a great recipe just flows

I don't know who is more interesting you or him

Eric stronel excellent

Having been a builder chef and lawyer mise en place controls. I try to think as if i was a fighter pilot everything shouud be at hand.

You are a great learning experience.

I thought you were going to rip him a new one lol I watched his original video and you added some solid tips and commentary to his project! Would love to see more videos - Thx man

That's his kid

thanks for the wax paper tip!

Love this video! Very entertaining and full of mold making wisdom!

Loved mikes expressions

That mixing method reminded me of ua-cam.com/video/mQAdmX57aRU/v-deo.html

I just watched this after filming it a couple months ago. I regret not commenting more on specific improvements that could have been made, as there were many. I think this was filmed when I was not yet comfortable criticizing other peoples work and wanted to offer more encouragement than throwing 'How To' punches. However, after watching this, my mind was racing again with all the things I wanted to say out loud at the time. I will not make the same mistake moving forward and will not worry as much about making tons of corrections along the way. Those here on the channel want to learn, and I will do a better job sharing all the tricks. Stay tuned! Michael

RTA's process is fun to watch. But like Michael says, the product is not very smart. Most importantly, the mix of all kinds of materials makes this an electronic product that's impossible to recycle. I'm pretty sure the actual product he is making is the video series and not this charger.

Whatever man, i'm 52 and I love Glass Beams. I love them like I love Khruangbin.