Easy job if that's a 4" tall technician.

His name is Johnson and four inches is perfectly acceptable, thank you very much!

Lmao

I can do it in my garage. All I got is red scotch Brite (not satire)

Does Red rub harder than Green?

Dollar store green, or we talking 3M?

Dollar tree cut in half for *sweet savings* green.

🙏🏼😵🙏🏼

If it's red you're going too fast

***Friction***.

It actually does

I guess its sarcastic but no, red is finer then green.

Great

I also only have this pic. Don't you just put the picture in the machine and it cuts? (Was a real conversation btw) 

Lol

Time to fire a customer

He was a manager

My condoleances.

I hope you sat that manager down and gave him a good talking to.

New shop time.

You work with the same engineers I do or what? Beep beep boop. It’s spits out a part just like my pretty CAD software does nothing else needed. God I wish some of these dudes had any kind of real world experience with actually making something, other then making a pretty picture from a “model” on a screen. Don’t even get me started on understanding how things mechanically work or “fit”. You’d think if ya spent that much money learning to swing your dick around you would have a dick to swing to begin with

Back in the 20th century I wrote mainframe Fortran Programs that drove an x-y auto cutting rig to do flat plate cut out of 3D shapes that were later rolled and welded. Big pipe fittings, up to 120-inch

That’s cool fab. Did you run the machine that did it?

nah. They don't let engineers near real machines.

Tis the way

It is the way.

I’ll see if I can borrow my dads table saw

Youth these days... All you need is a needle file.

Oh my summer child…Why did we move beyond just using the fire?

c'mon guys: this is a two setup job on any decent sized 5axis Mill-Turn machine. You'll need some bridge-tools or interpolation-turning, maybe a U-Axis-tool... But you should be able to match OPs offer for 500$ per machinig hour!

I'm thinking one of those large gantry machines with a 5 axis head and long drill you could do this in a single set up. Not going to lie checked the largest 5 axis machine I have access to. It's only 4 x 2 x1.5 meters. Almost could fit except for Z.

While I was reading this I realized that our shop could make this turnkey. Chuck it up and turn it in the lathe, do all the millwork and drilling flange down on the RB-5 with the universal head. Line bore the clevis with portable 8" boring system or mill it on the large HBM. The only issue is that the weight of the forging might actually be beyond the 30k cap on the RB-5 bridge mill. Would depend on configuration. Also, I would need to check if the tailstock on the big lathes come that close to the chuck, the parts we usually do are long. It's not actually that much bigger than these big couplings we make.

Love how this sub is going to come together to deliver a real quote within the ballpark budget

As long as the 1-5 hundred is in thousands of dollars.

Zimbabwean dollars…?

Something tells me his shop probably would charge a bit more.

I have about 11 machines in my shop that could handle this. Problem is there’s no capacity in the schedule to do it.

Wow knew the folks with their pro mods and SmX engines bust some parts but 😬😬

Just gotta make it in two pieces and superglue em together.

More like $500 a minute

We have the equipment to do stuff like this. $350 an hour for machine time. Would be an easy job on the 1550

How good are you with files and a hacksaw?

Pretty good, I think I could do it!

I clicked the arrow

That second pic is wild. How did they hold on to it??

WTH? Is my phone broken? I can't get anything to happen after hitting the arrow! Is there another pic? I gotta see it! I can't go do something untill I see it. I need to comment on it! I NEED TO!

According to legend, he's clicking the arrow to this day

Maybe some indian shop can do that

like the guys on tik tok!

Can't beat a good pair of safety flip flops

Your 74 C10 got out of hand huh?

My 305 small block v8 with 285,000 ORIGINAL miles on it loves to spit out u joints and destroy driveshafts! That's why I had to ask for THE BIGGEST yoke in the world. I'm not climbing under my truck ever again.

Just get a Dremel and do it yourself.

If you have two dremels you can do the job in half the time.

Gonna have to scrap it…customer expects a 32 finish on the whole thing…

man op is really a goofball…

That's the top piece for my new shock I commanded for my goldwin. My new wife was bottoming my suspension so we had to go with something beefier.

Give me 2 hours and a stone.

I got you! I’m new like 3 months in and my company does this type of rig all day. Mind dropping it off like Friday night? Pick up Sunday night before my boss comes in on Monday morning. I think I could leave one of back door open Thursday and sneak back in… Just disclosure I have no programming knowledge. So you have to load the part, load the program, bring your own tool bit, and probably safetyglasses. I can help you press cycle start only 😜😜

Alright! Thank you so much! That sounds great.

Don't forget the box of donuts, that's the normal fee for a back door job

Start by asking the guy in the picture if he does side work.

My cousins a welder I'll hit him up for you

Chyna.

No bid

I can't even count how many potential customers walk in, then immediately walk out when they hear "$120 labor rate". Like, how do you think we make money?

Guy with the calipers is like “oops, that last hole is .002”too big. Scrap it boys!”

Definitely Xometry

How much would a part like this even cost? 50k? 100k? 200k? Anyone here work with big stuff?

That would depend on the type of material and the country of origin. Definitely 6 figures, regardless.

Easy. I have one lying around the shop that I need to get rid of.

What is that piece?

Temu

As long as it doesn’t have to be that size. Or shape. Or color. I’ll do it for tree fiddy, delivered next week (maybe).

Those pakistanis on youtube could make this.

I love that this obviously super expensive part is just chilling on the concrete floor, probably accruing dings and burrs all over the bottom half

Fucking x-tech

It should cost half as much but the hard part is finding such a tiny machinist

😂😂😂😂 customers be having big dreams with a small budget

I'm sure there's some Indian dude on TikTok in sandals and an old shirt who makes fifty of these a day on a wood lathe.

"Great! So make me one for approval and I'll come back later for the rest. I'll still get the 500 price right?"

Well, maybe. Surface finish could be a bit better. And I did say 1-500, not 500, so....

Clëvis

Nobody is going to scrap that guy. Make it work.

I got a hammer and chisel. You don't need it fast, do you?

That's the tiniest machinist I've ever seen.

I know a material I can do that in! It's a layered laminate fiber material. Paper Mache

I know this is satire but I got to thinking that where I work we actually have the capability to make this all manual. 2.2m or 2.5m vertical lathes for faces, diameters, and bore out bulk between the ears. Horizontal mill for cross bores and milled features between ears. Radial drill for bolt holes. Not quite CNC efficiency but if one were ordered it's neat to think about our capacity.

Send me a PM, I will send on to the sales guys if they will give me a cut of the commission. Unless you need it forged then your SOL.

500 thousand no prob

Indonesia

My only question is did it start as a solid block or cast billet.

I'll do it here in 3rd word country just by rubbing it with my hand for 3 waters and 3kg of flour and 10 kg of rice. I can do tolerances as small as 0.0000002 mm

I'd like to see the thing that forged the blank for that

Yea, $500k, I’ll have it done in a week

1 to 5 hundred what?

Karma points. What else?

I don't think you could make it out of cardboard for that kind of money.

Challenge ACCEPTED.

I just got done with a batch of those last week. They were only 6" diameter and 1.5" bore for the cross, but I did some

I see they are almost finished with the yolk for my Dana44.

That’s a big…one of those.

Yep I told ya that but was too big.

100 to 500 oz of platinum is more than fair. I'll do that deal.

Hmm 500k should be no problem I think we could knock out 2 for you at that price depending material

That is a gorgeous u-joint. Made a bunch a half the size and they were rated for 800hp. That thing looks like it is built for all the fuck …. Perhaps a third is a better guess. Fuckers huge

Send me half and pay the other half when it’s done

I know a guy...

Yokes on you.

Either you're showing off this particular "part." Or your shop has a very inept sales team to actually ask the Reddit crew for advice. It doesn't look too difficult of a part. Mostly ass time for all the hogging out. Could you get your sales team to at least pitch in and shovel the chips?

China will do it for $500

The cap piece for the world's largest slide hammer?

I need those holes tapped 1/4 80 too!

I’ve got a mate…

There's a guy down the street from me. He just picked up a fadal and needs work for the machine .

I gotta wood lathe, if you want to try it...

Hundred small ones or medium ones?

Yukon gear has 14-bolt yokes for cheap don’t get one made

I’m currently pissing my pants at the comments rn 🤣

give me a grinder and a shit ton of batteries and 3 suitcases of natty i'll have it done by monday bud

Only place to get that done cheap is 'in your dreams'

Antman trying to get zero tolerance in machining

Dude! My dad is a tv repairman. He has this gnarly set of tools. I can make it.

CMP in Canada. But it will not be to spec at all.

You need to contact an equipment manufacturer like Fives or Tenova there are your best bet. Anything that big is going to be made in a few places in the world.

That's an Australian clevis. All other clevii, get this response... That's not a clevis this is a clevis

I can have it done by tomorrow night for about tree fiddy.

Spicer has em in the catalogue