THE VIDEO SHELF · metal stamping manufacturing
The Mind-Blowing Machines that Stamp Millions of Metal Parts - Smarter Every Day 288
Destin Sandlin tours a progressive metal stamping factory, showing machines that stamp millions of metal parts and the tooling behind them.
Why HN readers recommended it
Recommended for factory-process fans and as part of a series on how US manufacturing is losing tooling capability.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- SmarterEveryDay
- Topic
- metal stamping manufacturing
- Format
- documentary
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2023–2025
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From the original HN conversations
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In a similar vein, but for different products, but also with much more focus on the "back end" of the process: [VIDEO]
greggyb on Hacker News · 2023-08
In See How Pencils Are Made in a Japanese FactorySmarterEveryDay has a whole series[1] on manufacturing that covers how the US is losing/lost the ability to create tooling. I believe the "Smarter Scrubber" episode[2] is the one that explicitly talks about how not only has the US lost manufacturing capacity but it also lost …
Caligatio on Hacker News · 2025-08
In The decline of high-tech manufacturing in the United States
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