AMAZING Machine Shop Tour: Berkeley Lab with Tom Lipton!
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- čas přidán 20. 02. 2016
- One of the most amazing machine shop and science facilities in the world! This lab played a critical role in nuclear technology (including Manhattan project), discovered 13 periodic elements and is still conducting groundbreaking research today! They even have a particle accelerator!
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Many thanks to Tom Lipton for the tour / oxtoolco Tom's channel has top-notch machining videos!
Check out more on Berkeley Lab at: bit.ly/1Q9hGUK
Music copyrighted by John Saunders
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John: "What is the cycle time on that?"
Tom: "I don't know, we don't care, as long as the part's good."
I've worked one place, a tool and die shop, that I was told that exact same thing on the first day. It allows you to do your best work.
because cycle time would be repeated if the product are bad, is that right?
Amazing isn't enough. 99 percent of the population will never understand just how amazing that place is and what is being done there Thank you for sharing. G W
Your right. You would never see their list of parts laying around a Chinese machine shop. I was glad to see this, American enginuity is still alive. I do business with a lot of well equipt machine shops but you don't see this well rounded set up in any of them.
Back in the seventies, to be a machinist was a very prestiges trade. before CNC, to be a machinist people knew how to scrape, they knew metallurgy and were engineers. A ten year machinist had more knowledge in their head than a doctor and it was known generally in the population, we made the world and still today anything the world knows as civilization came from right here. It doesn't stop at planes cars and TV's, its everything, a person can just wrap thjeir head around that one for a while, and it is everything, still as of today. CNC equipment dummied up the industry a little and also made those jobs easy to export to china, as bill clinton paraded the GATE areement in in 1996 and thus free trade with china began to rape the American job market. I better stop there or I'll get carried away on the wrong subject LOL. You are completely right, most people, even many machinist today, don't understand the cool factor in that shop. This tell me a lot about you. You would have to know a thing or two yourself:)
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amen brother
I can't believe that people are complaining about the audio and video, this is not a tour at your local museum where crowds are coming through all the time. We are extremely lucky to be given the opportunity to behold such equipment. Damn this place would be impressive if the tour comprised of static photos!
I already had a lot of respect for Tom Lipton but this video just raised it 10 fold. Also I seemed to hear some tool envy in your voice during this video :)
Absolutely, x 100
36:32 "Hugh gets pissed when I gotta turn a shaft and gotta move his whole setup out of the way" -- classic Tom Lipton right there.
All i can say is wow, nothing else comes to mind, except wow
+Longrangehunter I second that WOW
Can't believe there´s an Argentinian lathe there! I salute you from the south of Argentina (Chubut), thanks for sharing!
"No words! No words! They should've sent a poet!" - Jodie Foster in 'Contact'
Absolutely astounding! I knew Tom must do sciencey stuff but I never could have imagined this!
We built a small accelerator for plasma research at Waikato University in New Zealand, a very interesting job. Great video of Berkeley lab..
It's a great privilege to receive the great wisdom and experience of Tom Lipton, one of the greatest teachers of our generation. He is very humble and very giving, a great example for the rest of us to pass on the gifts that each one have.
That was one of the best CZcams’s I have seen . I have always been a fan of Mr. Lipton but damn! The guys a walking legend.
Impressed to say the least!!!
Rewatching this years later and it’s still mind blowing.
Wow!! Never knew Tom worked there. I figured he did something a bit special, but nothing like this. Definitely watching this again. Tom has been holding out on us, some of that stuff is even larger than Abom-size. He seems like such a natural teacher in that environment (even more so than on his channel). Would love to spend a day there.
There better be a part 2. I know you got more footage than that lol.
+NYC CNC I know I could have and would have watched the full tour. And judging by the comments I'm not alone....
Thats awesome ! I follow Tom for a long time, and never knew he even had another job than it's own shop :)
That was and absolute amazing tour!!! I will end up watching this many times,
Thanks for sharing, and thanks to Tom!
One of my favorite all-time shop tour video - such incredible stuff!
Simply breathtaking, I could spend all day walking round just smiling at each individual project being done there !
My "Uncle" Bob worked down the road at the NSA as a satellite etc high qual machinist. He was a B-36 Airman Machinist when living with us with "Uncle" Little Box and "Uncle" Coubachek (sp !) We had a very large house near Travis Air-force base and used our large Shop to put their lathes and mills to work on their stuff. Cool guys to grow up with for a couple of years. Got to visit with Uncle Bob in the 90's as he was then with NSA. They taught Dad (Engineering ME) maching and He to them electrical and electronics.
During my years as an engineer, I have had the opportunity to work with the special metal's used in the Atomic power industry. Everything from Hastelloy, Inconel, and innumerable grades of stainless steel, and have even machined Zircolloy forging's! (lots of coolant needed to stop it catching fire when its being turned!). Its great to see these video's. I'm retired now, but barely a day goes by that I don't think about all the stuff I learned from my year's on the shop floor, Thanks so much for posting this stuff. It makes me happy to see such enthusiasm for these skills.......xx
Thank you for the awesome tour. Much appreciated!
This really tears at my soul. I knew a girl who was a machinist in that lab. I had thought about working there, but decided to take another path. In retrospect I feel like I missed out on something great. I've never seen that lab before, so I am most grateful that you shared this .
This is my 3rd or 4th time watching this and it's a true classic. Between you being so honestly amazed and Tom being himself (both incredibly knowledgeable quietly funny), it's absolutely riveting. Thanks!
John, what a great video! I use to work at one of a DOE's facility (as a contractor) and it was such a pleasure to go to work each day! You absolutely had no idea of what or who you may run into each day, and what in the world they may be building! I use to think that I couldn't believe that these people actually get paid to do these things, there are people that would give their "first born" just to be in the presence of things like this, and these people get paid to do it. What a great guy Tom is, what a great video you made of him and where he works! Thanks, really THANKS!!!!!! It brought back a lot of great memories!
+NYC CNC I did Fire Protection systems. One of the things that was cool about it, is that you got to see different places like that. Actually put some system around a couple of accelerators that IBM built. They didn't use them for physics though, they used them to somehow imprint chips.
Mindblowing! last person to go home has to turn everything off lol
why turn everything off when you can cut the main power
Usually in a lab like this there's never a last person... there's always people who live there;) People who you worry about a little, but it's really their element...
Probably the thing that sets these places apart. They end up being a sandbox for the obsessions of brilliant minds. It's so much more raw and awe-inspiring than polished products ready for market.
Amazing video! Thanks Tom and John!
drienkm cutting edge of science. Pushing the limits of what the machines can do, and what people can build. I'm grateful to have given 6.5 years of service.
Incredible...absolutely incredible. Thank you so much for this tour.
Man, that takes me back to my mis-spent youth... I learned to run a Bridgeport mill in the Materials and Molecular Research Division in Building 52 back in the early 1980s...
I miss the Rad-Lab, but I don't miss the undergraduate coursework, nor the cramped living quarters of my student days...
I'm glad that you got this tour... and, I'm glad to see that they are still doing world class science up on the Hill...
Cheers!
Eric
Hey John - Thanks! I was a chemistry student on campus, and my research adviser had most of his labs up on the Hill...
It was a great place to work, even if no one had the money to hire me after graduation...
That was one of the most incredible videos I've seen. What a place to work at!
Awesome tour!! Thanks for taking us along, and many thanks to Tom too!!!
-- Mike
Tom is the cream of the crop! Thanks for sharing the tour John!
That is the most interesting and coolest job site I have ever seen or heard about. They do it all, from simple quick and dirty to uber-complicated long form projects. I am actually envious.
Nice Video. I worked there almost 40 years, retired a few years ago. Fun place to work, lots of interesting projects.
I must have missed this video somehow- Amazing! My Great Uncle was the director of the Labs from 71-88 Roger Batzel - my dad had a tour once before was even born. Thanks for the video.
What's even more astonishing than all of the machinery is this incredible amount of small stuff just flying around. Microscopes, ratchet kits etc.
What a lucky guy you are Tom Lipton to work in such an amazing facility. Physics and machining....what a perfect combination. Great tour John...I think as a workshop that will take some beating !!!
I just learned of Tom Lipton today on the Essential Craftsman podcast. I will be binge watching his channel. As well as NYC CNC. Thanks
I need more shop tours. This is seriously the coolest video I've seen in a while. Thank you John, and thank you Tom for this awesome video.
Very cool! I actually work at LBL and have toured the main shops before. I work in another division but It's always fun to visit the main shops. Glad you got a chance to see it and share with us!
+NYC CNC I am a student assistant in the Buildings Technology & Urban Systems Division. I've been working on the FLEXLAB project (flexlab.lbl.gov) which is a test bed for different energy efficiency building technologies. The lab has the ability to change out windows, facades, shading mechanisms, HVAC, and lighting, etc. and has a bunch of sensors to measure the effects the different systems have. I've worked on installing some of the different systems and sensors and have done some CNC mill/ manual lathe work to make some parts for this.
I got to tour this facility in 2014 or 2015. Really great experience, and this video brought back memories.
I was planning to see a couple minutes, not really expecting very much. And suddenly the video is ending...
The video could have been four times as long and I'd still be watching every minute of it!
+NYC CNC, awesome video!
Any chance we can see the entire raw video?
NYC CNC the good point to invent the camera which connected directly to the brain...
What a stunning video!! Talk about a motivational video for prospective engineers - I have never seen such a stunning video and Tom makes an amazing host. Many, many thanks for doing this.
Thanks for sharing, I could have a lot fun there. It's nice to see someones work place. I think Tom has been blessed to be able to work at a place like that. I know I have learned a lot from watching his videos.
This was life changing just to watch. I can't imagine experiencing it in person
Wow, this was a great exposé of what equipment goes into an advanced mechanical research lab. We here at Machineco, have supplied equipment to university labs ourselves from general machine tools, to large radial drills and salt baths. In stock we have varied equipment such as was featured here, press brakes, shears,, compressors, welders, wire and sinker EDMs. The only machines we wised we had would be water jets and laser beam cutters, but it's impossible as they gobble up too much room.
Again a nice bunch of pics of a great assortment of metal working equipment. Thank you!
I have been watching both of your guys videos for some time now and I really admire both of your machining skills and knowledge. I find it really neat that you both are friends.
wow, thanks for doing the tour with mr. wizard and showing us!
+NYC CNC +oxtoolco Thanks guys that was an awesome tour!
Who gave 2 thumbs down? That is grounds for a good old-fashioned ass-kicking contest.
Very unexpected, but revealing! Tom Lipton is more then he wants us to see. Nice tour!
This is such a great video. I think this is the fourth or fifth time I've watched through this. And in case anyone isn't aware, Tom recently started posting more again to CZcams which is awesome
Tom is my favorite CZcams machinist - I've found the guys who work at those R&D places have the most interesting skill sets, and get to make the widest variety of things. (I used to hang around the Physics machine shop when I was at Stanford, and they were always working on cool stuff.)
Tom Lipton's play ground everything a guy need's to have a good time really nice to see inside one of these high tech institutions ABSOLUTELY AMAZING.
Hi, and THANK YOU! Just sold me on Tom as well. It's a very different set up from the production shops - just as big - my late Dad used to control and where I used to 'play' with one of the overhead cranes on Saturday mornings many, many years ago. Brought back some fond memories. Dad would have loved to see Tom's generous tour. Cheers, Bob.
Thanks again Tom for saving all of us Noobs from making avoidable and costly mistakes.
Place looks like so much fun? The ideas they can bring to life in that shop are endless. I was a bit surprised at how messy the shop(s) is! Most large scale shops pride themselves on being neat. It looks like this place works more on the philosophy of “if the part comes out right, we are good!” I really enjoyed this. Thanks!!
What a fun 45 minutes. Thanks! I have followed both your channels for a long time. Never knew Tom worked at Berkeley. Thanks again!
My father in law was the purchasing agent for the Berkeley Lawrence Livermore Lab for 30 years, retiring 20 years ago. I imagine he was responsible for the purchase of much of the older equipment shown in your video.
There is a lot of this here in the bay area. Vacuum chambers and unusually machined parts from exotic materials with ridiculously tight tolerances. But it is not every day that you see as many of the varied machines and parts in one video. Ok, it actually just this day and only this video!
I like that French lathe! their Laguns are a great machine also. Very nice.
Wow... Wish Tom could do more detailed tours and deep dive into some of that kit...
I don't really even have the capacity to respond to this... I'm only 20 minutes in and already speechless...
i come here just to see the part of the argentinian lathe. well .. and all the video again. its incredible.
and thanks for introducing me to tom lipton!
Pretty neat place! Thanks to both of you guys for taking the time to show this.
now realizing that there are machines like these, just awesome. fantastic tour guys thanks for being able to share this with us
Number 1 tour without a doubt
Just as I imagined.....unimaginable! Thanks for the tour!
...incredible...awesome machining and cutting edge physics - I could probably be convinced to work for free! Thanks John and Tom!
Very interesting stuff there. Thank you for taking the time to video the experience so the rest of us could get a look!
I had seen a few of Tom's videos and enjoyed them. I just became a subscriber. I believe a breadth of experience produces wisdom. Tom has shown that he has that experience. I will listen.
Thanks for the video. Very enlightening.
Guys, you've blew my mind. Fascinating. I am impressed.
That was an awesome shop tour. Thanks John and Tom.
Every time I saw pictures of such. I wondered where do they get the stuff. Now we know a little more of what goes on behind the scenes to dream up, assemble, and maintain such intricate and interesting thingys.
Awesome video John. That place is just astounding! What a pleasure to watch. Thanks very much for sharing.
Fascinating place to work. It shows that extreme accuracy requires lots more than just a hand-held ruler. My cousin worked on one of the projects that went to Mars, and he had some great times in the state of the art environment.
Thanks to you and Tom for a truly fascinating tour!
WOW! I don't know what else to say. Thanks very much John and Tom.
Wow, this is insanely cool! Thanks to both of you
Happy to watch this video again. Damn what a treat to join Tom for such an awesome tour! I would love to go to berkely lab or similar for a tour. Unfortunately I don't know something like that near where I live..... (anywhere in The Netherlands)
+NYC CNC and +oxtoolco thanks so much for showing us some of this. I quite literally just geeked out at a machinist level and as a physics junky. Seriously, that was awesome.
Holy cats! Totally amazing shops and facility! Thank you for sharing.
That was a remarkable video! Thanks for sharing it with us all. Greetings from Arizona.
Simply amazing . Thanks for the upload . Very enjoyable .
How many times did John say.. Holy Cow... WOW.. OMG!! :P
Not nearly enough
Look at his tour of Starrett.over the top and distraction but still a great tour
Great video; there's a lot of really interesting stuff there. Its really funny to see the reaction of the little haas owners. So shocked at seeing somewhat moderate sized equipment that I wouldn't call "big". All in perspective I guess. Great video, great shop. Thanks for sharing.
they remind me of when I was an apprentice precision engineer at AARHUS UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY
thanks Tom Lipton and John Saunders to remind me of good time
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This is the most awesome shop tour ever!! No comparison.
Its contagious great in sight and what knowledge i'm hooked puts the shame my little work shop in Slough in the UK. Do some more great show.
2:18 Im from Buenos Aires, Argentina. This machine is a Turri T-300 metal lathe. 2000mm between centers. Great precision machine. I have a 1969 Turri T-190 in my shop (fabrica). Very accured. Some people say that it is one of the best lathes in the world. And is true.
Holy Crap! You got to see the machine that makes Copper Niobium Super Conductor! I love working with that stuff, its so beautiful, in a completely awesome way.
What an incredible shop, that shop is like a work of art!
WOW! Top shelf machinist and science pron all in one. Kick ass!
Very very cool. Thanks to all involved!
Mind. Blown. Thank you for sharing this!
This may be the coolest thing that I have ever seen...
I spotted a round dial WWII Monarch 10ee at the 2:36 mark, which I just added to my own shop. I was hooked from then on! What a great and rare personal view into an amazing place. Thanks for sharing John, and thank Tom for us too! Your channel and Tom's are two of my few favorite channels on CZcams. I'm glad that you guys were able to meet up.
+NYC CNC No, unfortunately the previous owner ripped out all of the original motor/generator drive parts. This year didn't have the tubes. I'll be installing a 5hp 3 ph motor with a VFD connected to the original gearbox. Once I recover from my 2nd back surgery last week I will be posting a CZcams video. Keep up the great work John!
wow! absolutely amazing!
thanks for sharing
Thanks for whipping this up for us.
Scott
Wow Tom is great at giving tours he knows everything about anything in there
WHAT!!!! Holy Crap what an awesome shop I never realized you worked in, Tom!
holy crap does not even begin to scratch the surface of that. I work with some pretty amazing gear myself and that tour was a jaw dropper.
My freaking mind is blown after watching that. That place is insane.
Wow, how did I miss this? Never imagined that Tom is working in such a cool facility :)
Same! I've been watching Tom's videos for 2 years now and never had a clue!
I am simply HOOKED on you shop tour videos John!!....Can't get enough Wanted to get a view of the particle accelerator as i did work on a couple X-Ray multi element arrays mounted on the chamber years ago.....great facility, Thanks John
Awesome tour! Amazing to see how much (financial) resources are necessary to support since.