Wow.
I want to know what that machine does.
Oh, it's for--
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Today we are back in Yiwu at the International Production
Materials Market.
I've also been to this place before,
but it's been a couple of years.
And I wanted to come here again because it's amazing.
I'm here with Colin [INAUDIBLE] again.
Hey.
How are you doing?
Also is a huge fan of markets.
Yeah.
But this is definitely a kind of market you've never been to.
No.
Definitely not.
This place has all sorts of industrial equipment.
So this is where the factories that
make the stuff we saw in the previous video
come to get their equipment.
Oh, really?
Right.
So we've got injection molding sheets, definitely
want to get that up.
Ribbon looms is really cool.
This is like making ropes and woven
nylon like this kind of stuff.
Let's head inside.
So are we on floor two?
Is that what that means?
Yeah.
We're on floor two.
OK.
All right.
Cool.
This is where we want to be.
Hey, Scotty.
Your camera.
Oh, shit.
OK.
It sped up.
I didn't expect it to speed up.
Do you know what these guys sell?
No.
See if you can figure it out.
I know what it is.
But come down here.
There's some samples closer to the door.
Oh.
Fish tank coral.
No.
There's a sign on the wall that might help.
PVC?
Anti-lock brakes?
It's plastic.
It's plastic for injection molds.
So yeah, this is--
I don't know specifically what plastic this is,
but these are like pellets that would
go into the feeder in an injection molding machine.
And these are all the different kinds of plastic
that this particular supplier has.
So that's crazy.
So like if you have the mold, you throw all that in there
and it kind of like melts together?
Yeah.
Oh, that's pretty cool.
That's pretty cool.
Yeah.
Do you want to go see the machines that do this?
Yeah.
Let's do it.
Yeah.
OK.
Here we go.
So this right here is an injection molding machine.
Oh, cool.
Right.
So I think the plastic goes in the hopper there.
So that plastic we just saw, right?
Yeah.
Let's see.
And then your mold goes in here.
Right?
So it bolts on.
This is super greasy.
So it bolts onto all these different fixtures here.
Right?
And that's what's custom made for your part, right.
Right.
And then yeah, this thing comes together.
There's a ton of heat and pressure,
and it basically just squirts plastic into your mold.
Right?
And then these things come back apart,
your part pops out, you pull it out, do it again.
I want to know what that machine does.
Oh.
It's for plastic bottles--
--for blowing.
Yeah.
It's a blow molder.
It's cool.
So it's for doing blow molding.
So you start with a very small, very thick-walled
plastic bottle that's like this big.
And you stick it in there and it heats it up
and it blows air into a mold.
And then this is injection molding.
So this is PVC injection molding.
Yeah.
And then this is [INAUDIBLE].
So this will make this.
So this injection molder will make the blanks,
which look like this.
And then you can blow those to be-
do you have the other machine?
No.
OK.
Right.
OK.
So that's the injection molder.
And then you put it in the blow molder
and it will blow it bigger, I think.
That sound right?
Yeah.
OK.
Cool.
Yeah.
OK.
Bye-bye.
But this is for doing like a braid, like wire braid.
So this is like a pretty heavy duty wire for each thread
for doing like the shielding on cables.
Yeah.
And so these are all spindles here
and they spin and they move along.
So this spindle will end up over there later
and this spindle will end up over there.
How did people come up with this?
I don't know.
There's a level of genius.
It's a level of genius I don't have.
I'm not that mechanically minded.
So I can do the electric side and the programming side.
This is just like--
each of these machines is basically this,
but they'll do different weaves.
And there are a different number of threads
and different sizes and speeds and whatnot.
So you can do everything from metal shielding
like this for cables to rope for climbing and webbing
and things like that.
You used to be a firefighter so you know about all that gear
for climbing and stuff.
Right?
Right.
So you have different strengths and you have different weaves
for different purposes.
These are all the machines that would do all that stuff.
I wanted to point this out, which is a two-layer machine.
So it's got two levels.
And the bottom level is doing the core of the rope
and then this is doing the sheath here.
That make sense?
Yeah.
So like for a climbing rope, you've
got your core, which is like where your real strength comes
from, and then the sheet sort of provides your protection
from dirt and sand and whatever else.
And it weaves both at the same time.
Oh, yeah.
OK.
So I see what Colin was saying here.
There are some that are turned on their side
for doing really big stuff.
Wow, this is massive.
This is for doing like overbraiding.
So this is a big, thick rubber cable here coming through.
It comes through the center of the core of the machine.
This is already made and then this is woven on top of it.
So this looks like it's a nylon overweave.
That is cool.
That is really cool.
And then here's a slightly smaller one
doing metal overweave, a metal shielding woven
on top of a rubber cable here.
That's pretty amazing.
There's an entire section that just sells
these round weaving machines.
I guess they're called ankle looms.
Might be right?
That's what the section says anyway.
So this here--
I think we've seen a couple of booths
like this that are mostly just bins and shelves.
Yeah.
And I think this is when you break your machine,
this is who you talk to for spare parts.
Oh, cool.
So it's like the shop guy.
Yeah, right.
Yeah.
I mean, this is like when you need that one part for that one
machine--
That's cool.
--they've got it.
If I worked anywhere, I'd probably
like to work here, to be honest.
Yeah, probably.
You'd probably talk with most people.
Right.
Yeah.
And you probably save the most people's day.
Right.
Exactly.
Now we're getting into serious ribbon land here.
Oh, these are zippers.
Zipper machines?
Is this like weaving the--
what are these?
OK.
I think this might actually be a legit zipper machine.
It's not actually clear, though.
Yeah.
It's got a whole zipper on it.
But it's got--
I don't see what it would have done.
Yeah.
It looks like a tensioner or something.
Coils the-- I don't know.
Yeah.
Maybe it's just literally that, it puts it on a reel.
Oh, what's this?
This is like a zipper--
oh, maybe this is it.
Maybe this is the sewing machine that does the zipper.
Here?
Oh, yeah.
There it is.
Yeah.
There it is.
OK.
So that right there is the plastic part
of the zipper, the teeth, and it's sewing it
onto the sides of the ribbon.
So we've got one, two, three.
Yeah.
I think so.
Yeah.
I think so.
That's the first machine for making
the ribbons, that sews the plastic teeth on,
and then that coils it up.
And we don't know what that one does.
It's like the total opposite of the markets
I'm used to going into.
Everybody's just like, oh, come in, come in.
Come check out my stuff.
You can film, yes.
Please.
Please do film.
I want you to film.
Whereas hey, the other markets it's like got to be low key.
Yeah.
It's really nice how friendly everybody
has been to us in here and doesn't care if we're not
super serious buyers.
Yeah.
These people are setting us up.
Oh, OK.
Yeah.
Let's see what's in here.
Yeah.
Oh, hello.
No, not TV.
Just YouTube.
YouTube?
Yeah, YouTube.
Do you speak English?
A little.
What do you sell?
Machines.
Machines for what?
For weaving felt, big felt.
What is this machine here?
This is for cutting.
For cutting?
Hole.
Oh, for cutting holes.
I see.
OK.
So show us here.
So this has--
Yes.
For this hole.
--for cutting out these holes here.
And so it's got like a stamp?
Yes.
Oh, here.
Right here.
The stamps come down and cut holes out.
Why do you cut holes?
You need to put this curtain on the windows.
Oh.
On the windows.
OK.
Yes.
For curtains.
Yes.
Ah.
For curtains.
OK.
Yeah.
And then you have lots of parts here
it looks like, many parts for the factories.
Weaving.
Machine.
Yeah.
For when they break their machine.
Yes.
Then they come and buy parts from you.
Yes.
Who do you sell to, mostly factories here around you
or everywhere?
Everywhere.
The whole world?
Yes.
Do you have customers from the USA?
Maybe.
Maybe some.
But just some, just a little.
Only a little.
Yeah.
More in the Middle East and Europe.
Yes.
Yeah.
Awesome.
Well, thank you very much.
It's nice to talk to you.
OK.
What is your name?
Vivian.
I'm Scotty.
Nice to meet you.
Yeah.
Thank you for talking to me.
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Yeah.
Nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you, too.
Thank you, Vivian.
OK.
Bye-bye.
If you want parts for your weaving machines,
go talk to Vivian.
She's a pretty nice lady.
How did you even find this place?
Kind of randomly.
So I came up two years ago to check out the main markets
that we showed in the last video.
And while I was here, I was here for like three or four
days and I was like, what else can I see?
There must be other markets here other than that main market.
And I randomly saw Industrial Production Materials Market
and I was like, that sounds cool.
That sounds like a strange place with strange parts.
Let's go check that out.
Yeah.
This is literally strange parts.
It really is.
So we are in what, kitchen appliances I guess.
Yeah.
Which is not all that interesting, to be honest.
I mean, this was supposed to be like cutting and gauging
materials.
So I think the sign is outdated on that one.
So let's go find a map here.
I think we want to head over to printing presses.
OK.
So we've got a long walk ahead of us.
All right.
A really, really long walk.
All right.
Yeah.
Let's get on a move here.
But it's all indoors.
I know.
It's true.
It's the same building.
How many city blocks of building do you think this is?
It depends on how you count, but at least 10 or 20.
I would think so.
Yeah.
That all the way over there is the other end of the building,
and we need to go over there.
You know what that machine's making?
This one right here?
Yeah.
I was going to say face masks, but then I
realized it's probably for the actual work on it.
No, I think you're right.
So it actually starts back there as a roll of regular fabric
and comes through here.
And then there's some sort of machine here
that's sort of hard to walk in and see.
But it's folding and crimping these into the face mask part.
And so this is just heat welded on the seams.
It looks like it folds it, heat welds on the seams, the logo
and a number here--
and that's just basically a heat stamp--
drops here.
And then come in here and you've got the stretchy elastic
which is coming out of a bag over in the corner here.
It goes through tensioning pulleys like this.
It gets heat welded on here.
So these straps are actually just heat welded onto here.
It's melted.
Let me get a closeup of that.
And then it comes out the other side
and it drops on this conveyor belt
and goes off for packaging.
That's pretty amazing.
So the interesting thing about these machines
is they're essentially custom designed to do what they do.
But they're an erector set.
They're made out of common parts.
This is a bunch of pneumatics, there's a bunch of sensors.
All of the pieces that went into making this
are standard across pretty much every machine
we're seeing in here.
But they were all put together in a unique way
to do just this particular design of face mask production.
I would love to play with some of these parts
and make my own machine.
They seem actually pretty straightforward to assemble
and make my own factory machines.
I just don't know what to make, what product
I would make the machine for.
If you've got some ideas for a machine I should make,
leave it in the comments below.
I'd love to love to hear some ideas.
All right.
I am running out of steam, but I think
we have one more place we want to go check out.
Where is that?
Which is I think we want to go check the leather city out
on the roof.
Oh, yeah.
We were talking about that.
We wanted to see that.
Right?
Yeah.
OK.
All right.
Let's head up there.
Let's go find an elevator or escalator or something.
OK.
Holy.
It's like a freaking ghost town up here.
It's like urban exploration.
This is a video on its own.
So we're on the fourth floor.
There are proper roads here with cars driving around in lines
and--
oh, let's not get run over on the roof.
Yeah.
So they sell all leather.
So this is leather on rolls like fake leather, I think.
I don't think any of it's real.
I think it's all plastic.
I feel like you guys aren't going to believe me
that we're standing on the root because this
doesn't look anything like a roof I've ever been on top of.
But I swear to God, we went up, what, two, three flights?
I guess we started at two, so we went up two flights,
like major tall ceilings.
Yeah.
We're standing on top of the rest of where we've been today.
Yeah.
Inside, outside.
Dirt piles and everything.
There's nobody down here.
So we picked up some rental bikes
and we've just been riding around the bottom floor here
exploring, looking at medical supplies, hospital
beds, bedpans, nurses uniforms.
And I think it's about time to call this a day.
I'm worn out.
That's why we're on bikes.
I know.
We were tired of walking.
So I think it's time we go get some food.
We skipped lunch to walk around here,
so go get some dumplings or something
or hit the night market.
Yeah.
But yeah.
Thank you guys for tagging along.
This is an amazing market.
Let me know if you'd like to see any of the machines
we saw today.
If you want to see those up and close and personal,
like in full operation at a factory,
maybe we can hook that up.
So let me know in the comments if there's a specific machine
you want to see running.
I'll see what I can do.
Until next time, I'm Scotty with "Strange Parts."
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