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.

@gigstick

4 жыл бұрын

because cycle time would be repeated if the product are bad, is that right?

"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!

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

@dannynimmo3052

Жыл бұрын

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:)

@trainsacomin2088

Жыл бұрын

99.99

@johnnybush3168

10 ай бұрын

amen brother

@cncmach6779

10 күн бұрын

Californian's are so smart they allow Marxist politicians to turn their state into the most expensive shit hole to live in.😮😮 good job liberals 👍

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 :)

@Da5idc

2 жыл бұрын

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.

Can't believe there´s an Argentinian lathe there! I salute you from the south of Argentina (Chubut), thanks for sharing!

That was one of the best KZread’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!!!

All i can say is wow, nothing else comes to mind, except wow

@RzAn8

8 жыл бұрын

+Longrangehunter I second that WOW

Mindblowing! last person to go home has to turn everything off lol

@matthew5866

7 жыл бұрын

why turn everything off when you can cut the main power

@drienkm

7 жыл бұрын

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!

@randyroze8465

6 жыл бұрын

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.

We built a small accelerator for plasma research at Waikato University in New Zealand, a very interesting job. Great video of Berkeley lab..

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.

@ericwolf5874

8 жыл бұрын

+NYC CNC I know I could have and would have watched the full tour. And judging by the comments I'm not alone....

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 .

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.

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

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?

@cnc-ua

7 жыл бұрын

NYC CNC the good point to invent the camera which connected directly to the brain...

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!

@frednewman2162

8 жыл бұрын

+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.

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!

Nice Video. I worked there almost 40 years, retired a few years ago. Fun place to work, lots of interesting projects.

Thats awesome ! I follow Tom for a long time, and never knew he even had another job than it's own shop :)

Simply breathtaking, I could spend all day walking round just smiling at each individual project being done there !

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.

Tom is the cream of the crop! Thanks for sharing the tour John!

That was and absolute amazing tour!!! I will end up watching this many times, Thanks for sharing, and thanks to Tom!

Thanks again Tom for saving all of us Noobs from making avoidable and costly mistakes.

One of my favorite all-time shop tour video - such incredible stuff!

I like that French lathe! their Laguns are a great machine also. Very nice.

I don't really even have the capacity to respond to this... I'm only 20 minutes in and already speechless...

What's even more astonishing than all of the machinery is this incredible amount of small stuff just flying around. Microscopes, ratchet kits etc.

Very unexpected, but revealing! Tom Lipton is more then he wants us to see. Nice tour!

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!

@ryand827

8 жыл бұрын

+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.

+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.

How many times did John say.. Holy Cow... WOW.. OMG!! :P

@jeffo881

5 жыл бұрын

Not nearly enough

@robinhoff4598

4 жыл бұрын

Look at his tour of Starrett.over the top and distraction but still a great tour

wow, thanks for doing the tour with mr. wizard and showing us!

Thank you for the awesome tour. Much appreciated!

I already knew that Tom is a smart cookie .... but WOW

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.

Incredible...absolutely incredible. Thank you so much for this tour.

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!

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 !!!

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

@chemech

8 жыл бұрын

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!

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 KZread which is awesome

Tom Lipton is a fucking legend. Period.

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, 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!

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.

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.

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 may be the coolest thing that I have ever seen...

now realizing that there are machines like these, just awesome. fantastic tour guys thanks for being able to share this with us

@mertsilliker1682

8 жыл бұрын

Number 1 tour without a doubt

Wow... Wish Tom could do more detailed tours and deep dive into some of that kit...

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.

Tom is my favorite KZread 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.)

Awesome tour!! Thanks for taking us along, and many thanks to Tom too!!! -- Mike

This was life changing just to watch. I can't imagine experiencing it in person

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.

I got to tour this facility in 2014 or 2015. Really great experience, and this video brought back memories.

That was an awesome shop tour. 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!

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!!

Just as I imagined.....unimaginable! Thanks for the tour!

Guys, you've blew my mind. Fascinating. I am impressed.

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.

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.

I interviewed up there about 5-6 years ago. A friend of mine worked there for 40+ Years. The only job I think he ever had. ( I didn't get the job. I think I was in shock during the interview) My dream shop. There isn't anything they cant do. A giant toy store for machinists.

Thanks to you and Tom for a truly fascinating tour!

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.

What a fun 45 minutes. Thanks! I have followed both your channels for a long time. Never knew Tom worked at Berkeley. Thanks again!

Awesome video John. That place is just astounding! What a pleasure to watch. Thanks very much for sharing.

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!

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 KZread. I'm glad that you guys were able to meet up.

@TAWPTool

8 жыл бұрын

+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 KZread video. Keep up the great work John!

...incredible...awesome machining and cutting edge physics - I could probably be convinced to work for free! Thanks John and Tom!

Pretty neat place! Thanks to both of you guys for taking the time to show this.

I was trying to roughly estimate the cost of the equipment as you walked through, but it soon become apparent that it fell into the "mega shit loads" category very fast...

@flinch622

4 жыл бұрын

It's the UC system: they don't know, as it has been run cost plus for decades. One fun note [not shown] is they are able to make their own alloys on campus, which comes in handy for property testing and figuring out useable ranges for desirable properties..

@JohnMaxGriffin

3 жыл бұрын

@@flinch622 You're right about the UC system in general but this is LBNL's operation, not Berkeley's, and it's federally funded via the Department of Energy. The UC system essentially just staffs and manages the lab for the DOE. It's the single most productive institution in the world in terms of publishings per researcher, and the most productive singular lab bar none. Every institution that publishes more research than LBNL is made up of multiple labs spread out at distant locations. LBNL alone (just one of the 17 DOE national labs) publishes more academic articles per year than NASA, and almost half of what gets published by the entire NIH. So yeah it's shitloads of money in tooling and machines. LBNL is not Berkeley's science & engineering department, it's a federal facility that used to develop nuclear weapons, and now does pretty much everything BUT develop nuclear weapons. Addendum: Although LBNL is the most productive lab on paper, it's by far not the biggest national lab in terms of staffing or funding (LANL's budget is triple LBNL's) - it's just the biggest national lab that does not do classified research. LLNL, LANL, and ORNL are likely far more productive, their findings just don't get published because everything is classified. Anecdotal, but every staff scientist I know at LLNL or LANL has Q-clearance. That should give some idea of exactly how much of those labs' research stays secret.

WOW! I don't know what else to say. Thanks very much John and Tom.

My freaking mind is blown after watching that. That place is insane.

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)

That was a remarkable video! Thanks for sharing it with us all. Greetings from Arizona.

Wow, this is insanely cool! Thanks to both of you

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.

Mind. Blown. Thank you for sharing this!

Simply amazing . Thanks for the upload . Very enjoyable .

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.

Hi mate. I knew that Tom had a pretty important job, but after this, I don't dare to ever write to him again. What I think of, he's forgotten years ago. I must say that your offsider asked some pretty pertinent questions, some that even made Tom sit up a bit. Thanks for sharing this tour.

Holy cats! Totally amazing shops and facility! Thank you for sharing.

+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.

wow! absolutely amazing! thanks for sharing

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.

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.

What a neat place! Thanks for sharing this.

What an incredible shop, that shop is like a work of art!

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

@AtMortenJ

8 жыл бұрын

nånå man finder også danskere her.

WHAT!!!! Holy Crap what an awesome shop I never realized you worked in, Tom!

@ScottPankhurst

6 жыл бұрын

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.

Pure Awesome!!!!!!! Thanks John for sharing.

Wow, how did I miss this? Never imagined that Tom is working in such a cool facility :)

@Garganzuul

7 жыл бұрын

Same! I've been watching Tom's videos for 2 years now and never had a clue!

Awesome tour! Amazing to see how much (financial) resources are necessary to support since.

What an incredible resource! Great tour, wish I could go on one, it beats any other Berk tour! Thanks!

Holly crap that's cool, I'm totally geeking out right now.