- So today we're taking delivery
of the biggest, most expensive machine I've ever purchased.
In the crate behind me,
is the Doosan Puma MX2100ST.
Let's get started.
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Okay, we are about one hour into it.
I mean, this crate, I'm totally shocked at how large it is.
We're taking up the width of the alley, which is fine,
but this is the biggest forklift I've ever seen in person,
that's the biggest crate I've ever seen.
That forklift is,
I mean everything's big about this.
So, right now they're opening the crate.
Quentin, with So Cal Machinery Movers,
my preferred guys, said that typically,
when these machine get here, they may sit for a little bit.
This was in New Jersey,
so it's a little more humid.
We have a very dry climate here in Southern California.
He says most of the time, these crates are rusted shut.
So right now, they're taking all the fasteners out,
but they might have to get
the pry bar out, to actually pop it open.
So it's a work in progress.
A lot more goes into this
than any other machine I've ever purchased.
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Wow.
I did not expect that.
I mean, I've only seen the smaller version of this,
the MX1600 in person.
I mean, I've seen it,
the crate obviously, seen it tarped,
but I did not expect this.
This thing is fricking beautiful.
Wow.
It's time to get this in the shop.
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Okay, so what's going on right now is,
this forklift is so massive, the forks are thick,
they're about six inches thick.
They're too thick to get under the machine,
so they're having to put it up,
put one end of the machine up, block it,
lift the other machine,
and then they'll hopefully raise it up
so we can get the forks in and off.
So a little snafu, but these guys are pros.
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The machine is in place.
I mean, this was like a.
Man, I've received a lot of machines,
but this one got me nervous.
I mean,
some of the footage of it tilting
on the flatbed truck, and just the size of it,
the sheer size of the crate was overwhelming.
My sales guy, Daniel, that was here, he's like,
"hey, the crate's deceiving is a little bit smaller."
But this is not a small machine,
it's not a light machine either,
I mean, it's 12,000 kilograms,
I don't even know what that is,
we'll put it right here
in the weights and pounds.
But this is, it's a beast.
I'm just still getting used to it.
I mean, even the control itself,
we're laughing because it's got Y, X1, Z1, B,
C1, A, C2, X2, Z2, and T,
when it comes to all the axis
that you have to deal with.
And it's intimidating,
but at the same time we gotta keep in mind
that it's simply multiple machines put together,
running at the same time behind
these two closed doors, you know?
So, for right now, let me walk around it,
and then we'll talk to you about what's next.
So join me over here.
So one of the cool things is,
you put in a four foot bar of material
on the left hand side,
finished parts come out the right hand side.
So in previous videos,
bar-fed lathe, it's just like easy automation.
Now, this isn't bar-fed yet,
but we have that option in the future.
Of course we'd have to move some stuff around,
but I didn't plan for this to be bar-fed,
'cause we're doing lots of prismatic parts.
So, out of a four foot bar,
prismatic parts come here, a hundred percent done.
If you've watched my unboxing video of our VF-2SS,
we'll add a card and link in the description below.
I mentioned that I typically have a process
that I do when I walk around,
and I don't really touch a lot of the padding,
I want the technician to do that.
I just couldn't help myself,
I had to look at the control,
I wanted to see what this looked like.
It's like the control is where the business is done,
and then this is where the money is collected.
So I just had to see what's going on.
It has a part catcher.
Now,
typically part catchers are either attached to the door,
or they're attached the sub spindle like on
our other Doosan lathe.
This has a programmable parts catcher,
it can pick up a part wherever,
so it's another axis that you program.
It drops it off here, comes out here,
all the parts end up finished right here.
Let's check out the tool changer.
Okay, so the nice thing about this machine is,
well, first of all,
it's a 40 tool, belt chain-style, tool changer.
And these are Capto C6.
The nice thing about this is you can change tools
while the machine is running.
So you would come up, it's got this thing,
I'm gonna learn how to use it but,
to put the tools in and out, there's a tool to get 'em out,
'cause these are very powerful grippers.
And then every tool,
it's like an umbrella-style tool changer,
every tool is assigned to a pocket, and that doesn't change,
so that's the nice thing about it.
So, below this shipping bracket,
by the way, any bracket you see that's red,
that's a shipping bracket that comes off.
You'll be able to call up the tool carousel,
or whatever belt style, you can service it.
So we'll do a lot of the pre-staging
and just checking on tools back here,
you don't have to stop the machine.
While I was back here,
I was just really impressed at just the size of this.
I mean, it's open architecture,
that's how most lathes are,
but it's just it's just so well built.
I mean, when I got my first Doosan,
it was impressive just from the standpoint
of how much mass there was,
and just the detail they put on the way covers,
the wipers, just all the little things.
And even how they route cables.
There's such a intentionality to these machines
that I really appreciate.
So here we have our chiller unit,
this chills the spindle, and possibly the ball screws.
I'm not sure about that.
There's just so many details about this machine,
that I've forgotten more than I've picked up.
But it has a full integrated chiller.
Back here,
this is when we place a machine we needed,
keep in mind this takes four foot bars,
we needed that clearance.
This panel here will probably take off,
you can option, and take this off and feed it.
You just get a little bit more access to everything here.
I like to keep my eye on equipment,
of course we wanna keep this safe.
But one of my ideas, that we put plexiglass,
so it's safe, and we get to see what's going on there.
Using lean principles,
anytime we can three S,
sweep, sort, standardize.
When we sweep stuff on a regular basis,
we are up in it, we are cleaning stuff.
When you clean, you find defects.
When you find those defects,
you fix them, when you fix them, production runs smoothly.
So that's why I like to see the insides of my machines.
I really appreciated that about the UMC, the Haas UMC-500.
Almost like an open architecture back as well.
Very,
kind of like a, almost a minimalist design.
But it's just something that I just appreciate,
putting eyes on the stuff that's moving.
Now, when it comes to chip conveyors,
the nice thing about Doosan machines is,
there's a lot of options for what you can buy.
There's Jorgensen,
I went with LNS, as in LNS turbo.
And this chip conveyor is unique.
Now with previous chip conveyors, long stringy chips,
or even like in the mill chip set,
use a high speed tool path
with the long chip length can get bundled up,
and they tend to get trapped, and just caught on the belt.
This is unique because it has an air header.
Essentially, it's an air knife that blows off stringy chips,
so you're not wrapping 'em around the belt,
it's not getting clogged.
This is definitely one
of the bigger chip conveyors I've ever seen.
I mean, it's a beast,
it runs the full length of the machine.
And I am really excited to find out
how this actually performs compared
to other chip conveyors I've used in the past.
So what's next is we have to run wire to this.
I wasn't totally sure what breaker size.
Good thing I waited.
This is a 250 amp breaker,
so we've got some big copper wires coming to this.
We also have to top it off with coolant, that's easy,
we'll do that after installation.
We also have to put in the oils, way lube, hydraulic fluid.
We have to put chiller fluid,
we need to run air to it.
We need to have the technician set it up.
We're gonna have some days of training,
and then we'll start cutting chips.
So for now, how about a little installation montage?
Let's roll.
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Okay, so here we are,
it's day two out of three of the install.
Day one was actually pretty uneventful,
it was a lot of housekeeping.
It was taking off shipping brackets,
it was up putting the pads,
there's eight pads that this machine sits on,
four were in play.
So the leveling process, all that little stuff.
And also cleaning.
So this comes from overseas, it crosses the Pacific,
so there's lots of Cosmoline corrosion inhibitor
that's all over it.
It's just, there's nothing really to see.
But today we have power to it.
We already have air, it's turned on.
The technician is just dialing every thing in.
And I wanna be cutting material on day four.
But, we'll see how today goes.
So when it came to power,
one of the things that caught me off guard
is how power hungry this machine is.
So it requires a 250 amp breaker.
Now inside of an electrical panel
they don't make breakers that size,
they make breakers, but they're more of a full size,
like a main disconnect.
So what we had to do is,
we opted to use one of the transformers.
Now the backstory on this transformer is,
there was a guy that was closing out
his electrical supply house,
he came to my shop with three transformers,
I was gonna buy two of them.
And I made him an offer
he couldn't refuse, I bought all three,
thinking someday with the growth of the company
I'm gonna want an extra transformer.
I did not expect that transformer to be used
within the first few months of us being here.
So what we did,
we pulled the 480 down to this transformer,
transforms it to 208.
And this can put out a little bit over 300 amps of power.
So from there, we went into a fused disconnect.
So a fuse is essentially an old school breaker.
So with our three phases,
that goes from the transformer,
through the fuse disconnect to the machine.
And now the machine has a dedicated transformer
and a fuse disconnect.
Now in the future what we can do,
is we can split this off and have a panel
that we can use that extra 50
or a hundred amps for something else.
But for now, this has been a life saver,
really happy that I bought this one extra
with such a great deal in place.
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All right, so we got the machine hooked up,
it's commissioned, we've gone through training.
And we're really wrapping our minds around
how to program this machine
for great success and confidence using Fusion 360,
our CAD/CAM package that we use around here.
We're gonna show you in the next episode
plenty of machining footage.
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And until next time, go innovate your production.
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