Listen to that gut feeling and start your own shop! SBSOLO Mfg Shop Tour
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2024
- Shawn Brown did what most machinists aspire to do: he ventured into starting his own shop. Despite its modest size, currently spanning only 896 square feet, Shawn's dedication and passion keep the operations running seamlessly. Throughout the video, Shawn explains how he came about the decision and when he knew it was the right time to take action! He also shares the struggles to find jobs and the best approaches to finding new clientele.
A true differentiator for @SBSOLOCO Manufacturing is their business model. Although being a new shop, Shawn focused on being self-sufficient and prioritized purchasing a 3D scanner to ensure they could make all of their own products. This way, the shop avoids busy work and gets to the goods faster! Shawn's commitment to innovation and efficiency serves as the driving force behind the shop's early success, paving the way for a promising future in the manufacturing landscape.
To learn more about SBSOLO Manufacturing, follow them on social media:
UA-cam: @SBSOLOCO
Instagram: / sbsoloco
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That's a high value woman right there. Most women wouldn't even give You or Your shop the time of day. Iv'e never had a woman that is impressed of gives two craps about My shop. Worth a ring that one is. Turn it from inconel. That will show how much You care.
Hahaa! A friend of mine started a shop and was doing great. millions in revenue. Big building which he ended up buying and was making a fortune. His Chinese Mother-in-law hated that her daughter was with a "factory worker" lol!
She seems like the perfect girlfriend! Actually getting involved with helping her man grow something together!!! (And yeah, she's not bad on the eyes - kudos to you, sir!)
Shawn Brown, very proud of you doing your thing. I hope the gutter drain I put in front of your shop door is still good??? LOL.This is Bruce and was surprised as hell when your video popped up............Good job .
Gutter is still working good. 😂 strong enough to load 3 machines in there with the forklift wheels loaded right on it!
It won't be Starrett, Brown and Sharpe, or Mitutoyo, but left handed calipers do exist. Also Fowler makes a mic called QuadraMic that you can read left, right, and upside down. Never had an issue with either.
This! is a serious shop, despite its size! Well done. loved seeing what your shop has and inspiring me to push to venture out on my own!
This guy takes paying attention to detail to the next level. Quality!
I forgot to mention this in my video and others are asking on my IG account, but my work instructions are populated by Varco Reports out of Mastercam. They are highly customizable to have any layout you could imagine. You just need to have everything proper in your CAD so it can export useful data. Thank you all for watching!
Awesome video, man. Glad it's going well for you. I never doubted it.
Your reports are nice. We did custom ones on MasterCAM and it took some work but happy once we got it done!
@@dandokka5204 Thanks Sonic! Heard you're on a new journey yourself! Good luck out there!
@@VictorHernandez-nt3tw Yeah, dealing with the standard HTML where a pain. Varco reports makes it so easy for anyone to customize and its not a expensive add on at all.
how old were you when you first starting thinking about opening your own shop? Im 25 now but I'm afraid that if I don't get after my dream soon then life will begin to get in the way. But i also dont have a ton of cash lying around haha
Retired sparky and have wired in a few Bridgeports in garages and similar small areas but never a CNC machine. Great layout and surprised of all the tooling that you have. Can see you getting a larger shop and hiring a machinist to help out. Helped my dad wire in a old building back in the 1960's that had a two phase service and we had to install a phase changer for a Bridgeport, lathe , surface grinder & air compressor. My favorite places to do electrical work was machine shops, tool & die shops & injection molding plants.
If your phase converter has the large capacitors remember to change them out. I didn't know until after like 7 years... Got lucky.
Didn't realize that's an issue, thanks for the heads up!
Nice video Shawn. I am very old and very experienced so I want to offer a couple of ideas and or advise. 1st, do not get rid of your Girlfriend. If she really cares about you she will prove to be your best friend and supporter when things are not so great. I don’t care what the other guys say. Plus she can cheer you up when you need it. 2nd From this short video I can tell you with some confidence that you are really good at fixturing and or work holding. If you concentrated on making fixture or zero point type stuff I would think you could do really well. Your vise bases are most impressive. I really enjoyed the video and good luck. I just moved from a similar size shop to a bigger shop but I made a decent living at the small shop for about 10 years.
Thank you Rich, she's not going anywhere, we are a power couple for sure! She is crazy supportive in everyway working for free on her days off from her day job! I definitely will be doing a zero point system in future as I grow that is for certain. Take care and congrats on the bigger shop!
Excellent machining skills and beautiful shop
Dude knows what he is doing.
Yeah he does all that experience at those other shops , cant wait to see more
Impressive Shop tour. Thank you.
I’m a machinist for 40 years I’m in Fairbanks Alaska
I like that you have all the tooling stay set for all the jobs that’s handy and I was impressed to see you had a mark for two we have two of them at work also nice printers, very nice printers I like using them with Kevlar material in them.
Impressive to see your organization I how you do your tool offsets and your deck plates for your vises.
I like your job procedure packet too
Thank you. So many ways to run a shop, just have to go with what you know at the time. Keep warm up there!
that vf-oe is sooo clean
Hey Stephen, loved this video. Your shop is very well organized. I did have a question for you, where did you get the shelving that you used to store your fixtures and your leftover stock, they are gray with wooden shelves? They’re kind of exactly what I’m looking for and I’m wondering if they’re available to buy somewhere or you just found them maybe somewhere local or they were passed on to you from someone else. Any info would be greatly appreciated!
I welded those up myself. 👍
You are just starting and I am just selling. 45 years has been a good ride and now the nice big cheque for my custom machine shop will be much enjoyed.
QG65 collet system is bad ass. Purchased mine as soon as seen it. Royal came by in a van with my tool rep.
Much easier than screwing it in that's for sure!
Awesome video! Love both of your personalities! ❤
I appreciate that, thank you!
That is one nice shop man!
Nice job, you are the man
Super interesting shop tour. Really enjoyed all the explanations on shop optimizations (fixtures aligned with CAD, having 2 machines instead of 1 to run same program and parallelize prod, etc.), super cool. The 2 questions / answers were great too as I was wondering how you did during the video 😉Wishing you lot of success in your awesome venture, it requires lot of courage to quit a comfortable day job to pursue our dream. Cheers from France. Matt
Thanks Matt. You sure hit the nail on the head with leaving a job your comfortable at. That is what made it so difficult to finally pull the trigger for so many reasons.
@@SBSOLOCO i have 4,800 hours of youtube watch time 😂 (it says on my premium account) and you seem like a natural,consider making one i think you’ll do really well ,
I liked this guy already...then he pulled out a scan of a Superjet!
Thanks for the enjoyable tour. Really great presentation with smart ideas, inspiration and humor! Great stuff ... all the best.
Thank you, I appreciate it!
That's inspiring. Love your custom fixturing !
Thanks you!
How do you deal with zoning laws if you are in a residential area?
Do you have the 3D printed model for the tool holders. Great shop setup
Man, I'm with you on the plastic! My least favorite material to work with. I always enjoy seeing how other guys run their one man shops. Also nice to see another dirt-bike guy rockin' the machine-shop game. And I really enjoyed your video. Nice shop! (just gave you a follow on IG, great content there as well) One question: is that noise-control I saw hanging from the ceiling?
I created a youtube account just so I could answer your last question. lol I had intended to talk about noise control but got rushed an forgot. So yeah, I have noise baffles to knock down echo. I also have noise barrier material over my windows and bay door. I have a big issue with noise pollution that I had to contain. Most of the noise went out the roll up door so I fully sealed it. Doing so knocked the noise down at least 30% from exiting shop. bad thing is I cant roll up my door without removing it which isn't easy. Thanks for the follow on my insta and glad you liked the video!
Well she's a keeper🙂
Why no probe? You can snag a used ts27r, omp40-2, and OMI2T used set for under $1k total.
Nice shop.
Do they have a yt ? They are good on camera
Loved the whole video. Helpful and inspiring to someone like me just getting started. I found the tool assembly topic really interesting and helpful. How do program G43 when setting up your tool paths in your CAM software? I use Fusion 360 and G43 always sets the height offset number to match the tools number (T6 = H6, T19 = H19). I have not figured out a way around that yet other than manually changing the code. My Fanuc control has (I believe) 500+ tool offsets I can use. I'd like to take advantage of that process at some point.
So I don't have any experience with fusion 360. I use Mastercam, What I do in Mastercam is create all my tools and assemblies and save them too a library with the T, H and D number the same as my assembly number. As I program I grab tools from my library. Once I'm done, Mastercam has a feature to where you can renumber your tools in the order used and gives you the choice to only renumber T number and not H and D, then when I post it out, the post just reads the T, H and D per operation and works just fine.
@@SBSOLOCO Thanks for the reply. That sounds like an awesome feature in Mastercam. I'll have to do some research to see if there's some similar functionality in Fusion 360. Thanks again!
@americanMakerCNC Fusion has a function similar. Its under the Post Processor tab for each tool. This allows you to set the tool number, length offset, Diameter offset of each assembly. For example, if you want T1 to have H2 and D2, you would set the tool number to 1, the length offset to 2 and diameter offset to 2. This will set the D and H values to 2 and the tool number to 1.
Just be careful! That can be an express ticket to a crash!
@@HelixEngineeringSolutions Thank you, I will check that out!
Great shop tour! I just bought a TM-3P I’ve never liked the carousel tool changer because you have 200 tools in the controller but you can only use 20 of them. I’m putting together a lot of tools for quick setup. You said you started with 21 so I assume you put that in pocket one and use 21 for the offset. And do the same thing for the remaining 200. Is that correct ?
That's the downfall of a carousel. You have to call T1 to rotate to pocket on on carousel. Other machines dont care what pocket your tool number is in and can use 4 or 8 digit tool numbers. Basically i program with whatever assemblies it takes up to 20 assemblies max because that all i have room for. Then in my CAM software i can quickly renumber my assembly T numbers starting with T1 in the order they were used leaving the H and D as they were. So each program or part i run could have a tool assembly in different spots in the carousel depending when i used it in the program but will always use the same H and D offset that matches the assembly number. Once i get passed 200 assemblies i will have to change the T H and D to the first 20 offsets. At least until I get a machine with more offsets. 👍
Thank you
..Cresent wrench metric or American? She siad 😮uh-huh..sure. Hilarious!
Cool video. Nice shop.
We use salt for titanium fires.
They actually make calipers for left handed people but it shouldn't really be a problem...
Left handed calipers are a game changer though lol. I had my set at work for a week before I ordered a set for at home lol
Well done. ❤
Thank you
Super 👍
Man get a mini-split. Also some pallet rack will help you out.
I actually have a mini split but it cant keep up. The mist collectors create so much humidity in the air that the mini split looses its efficiency even in dry mode. I struggle with bringing fresh air in because of the noise polution so I have to keep the doors shut. Probably should buy a large dehumidifier but I wont be in my shop forever so I guess I will just deal with it. lol
@@CMTeamCobra I will need to look into those!
@sbsoloco
What kind of capital would it take to replicate your shop, if you had to buy it again?
what clamping system do you use to swap fixture plates?
how do you like the mist aways? im neding one for a lathe and vf2 mill (both 300psi pumps)
👱♂: Is it metric or america?
👱♀: Sure!
Your girl eyeballing me. She ain't loyal, bro.
Marry her!
The girl was eye candy. Just a prop.
Jokes on you, she loads and helps run a lot of my jobs. 👌
@@SBSOLOCO Sure man.
Lighten up bro. Just because she’s pretty, what? You discount her contributions? Lots of us have our ladies working in the shop with us. Mine is fantastic and takes a real interest in the job, Lear ing and the parts themselves. Not sure your background or how good/bad life has treated you, but don’t discredit Shawn’s girl as just eye candy. That’s lame.
@@BasementShopGuy lol
If you don't marry her I WILL!
*_Nothing will ruin a business faster than a girlfriend or wife. Wait and see._*
Sounds like a skill issue there buddy
@@procyonia3654 Sounds like he has a point their buddy. If you're butt hurt now, wait until your chick leaves you and see what she does to you in court.... Buddy....
@@jrpo6379happens many times
im not your buddy guy.... im not your guy buddy.... ua-cam.com/video/m1JakODvYhA/v-deo.html@@jrpo6379
How do you know if she owns part of it or not?
The "cute but dumb" schtick will get old pretty quick..
Look at the bad choices on her arm
@@daleolson3506 classy stuff 😄
Nothing will Ruin a business faster then A Haas machines that’s weak as piss and point blank refuse to have any responsibility what so ever
If I had to start my shop all over again, I would buy haas machines again. The thing that will ruin a business is a bad attitude and lack of skill.
Gross tattoos
I love you tool holder rack ! Did you make it by your own ? I am looking for improving our storage in my shop. Interested to have informations ! Thanks @sbsoloco
I did make it. I used the Sierra America Tool trays👍
MY NUMBER 1 QUESTION IS: HOW THE HELL DO YOU FIND YOUR FIRST CUSTOMER? Do you design your own products? which is hard, or do you take work from different companies?
For me it was word of mouth. I also made long lasting relationships that turned into something 10 years later. Some people use brokers. Heard linked in is good too.