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Stock setup
- [Instructor] In this video, we're going to be setting up the stock for the manufacturing operation. Now, you can see here we've got an assembly belt with a machine table, it's got a vise on it and then we've got a block of our finished part in the vise. Now what we want to do is establish the stock around that piece. Now we're doing a little bit of extra work here by setting up the table and the vise and getting it all into an assembly, but it really pays off in the long run because you can see exactly what's going on in your manufacturing operation. And you can add multiple operations all to the same table, all to the same assembly. And in that case, it really makes things a lot easier to reuse the same tools, and a lot of the same setup information you can use across multiple parts, so definitely take a look at doing that. Now of course, we didn't have to do all that, we could just bring in the individual part we want to manufacture and start machining, but I definitely do…
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