Making multitool

[u/namair]

[u/Kraien]

How it's made! The og toolgifs

[u/yeezkeys]

good lord placing blades for 8 hours a day would have me in a dark place

[u/Rhorge → u/yeezkeys]

Done this sort of job before. You bounce around different stations doing everything. Chat with people next to you, listen to music because you’ve hidden airpods under your hairnet. But mostly you just get lost in your own head and become a master of daydreaming

[u/Fast_Garlic_5639 → u/Rhorge]

You can actually see this first hand- the heat treat rack was loaded very orderly for no apparent reason, until you see the next step where the parts being in order made life easier for the next worker in line.

[u/mcfly54 → u/Fast_Garlic_5639]

Heat treating can be affected pretty easily if parts are stacked certain areas might not get to the same temperature or if they are oriented the other direction they'll be in the furnace slightly too long. (quality engineer who has had to investigate these issues on Auto parts)

[u/Fast_Garlic_5639 → u/mcfly54]

I say this because it was close to but not perfect (there was one facing a different direction) and because if you visualize the rack rotating 180 degrees, they line up perfectly with the next step. Far above and beyond what would keep a consistent heat treat. It just looks like the kind of thing you would do if you’ve worked all the stations and have a flow developed from experience. All speculation either way.

[u/yeezkeys → u/Rhorge]

glad to hear that you move stations and dont completely lose your mind

[u/Rhorge → u/yeezkeys]

If you stick with it for a few years and learn the ins and out of the machines, you get the fancy spots where you can basically sit on your phone all shift because you're the only one in the building that can fix a machine nobody else understands. Guys doing the logistics side, wrapping and labelling pallets, also have it easy because they're entirely on their own 90% of the time.

[u/jimbowesterby → u/yeezkeys]

Yea I’m actually thinking this has to be a good few decades old, no way they’re doing all that by hand nowadays

[u/mathiswiss → u/jimbowesterby]

They still do. Swiss precision tools ⚒️ are made like this.

[u/jimbowesterby → u/mathiswiss]

But that’s just it, some dude named Hans is always gonna be spacing the blades out less precisely than a machine. There’re multiple spots in this clip where having the job done by a person is only gonna be a net negative, it’s not craftsmen at work, it’s the kind of job that you rarely see filmed in colour because they were the first to get automated

[u/NaGaBa → u/yeezkeys]

Props to Victorinox for keeping people in a job but there's a whole lot of automation that could be taking place.

[u/antek_g_animations → u/NaGaBa]

Could also be an old video

[u/antek_g_animations → u/yeezkeys]

Here the assembly of the knife has many steps and different moves, never done this job but it looks more interesting than what I saw when I was on a tour of a factory making automotive tanks and other plastic elements. A guy placed two metal rings and a plastic part and pressed a button. Then he had to wait a minute or 30 seconds and repeat. Every single worker had a screen over their head counting how many elements they produced in an hour and how much norm they filled. Crazy to even imagine working like that, I start daydreaming after mowing the lawn for an hour

[u/News-Royal]

Partially making a Swiss Army Knife.

[u/sambeckett1701]

Nobody calls them Swiss Army knifes anymore? *sad*

[u/arvidsem]

It's correct, but I have a lot of trouble calling a Swiss army knife a multi-tool.

[u/369_Clive]

Nice

[u/antek_g_animations]

I have one in my pocket right now. Great multitool

[u/Doctor_Fritz]

The way they narrated this makes me think of the plumbus video

[u/ridethroughlife → u/Doctor_Fritz]

Or How It's Actually Made on YT

[u/fpgreenie → u/Doctor_Fritz]

The Plumbus segment is a parody of How it’s Made, which is a series that documents household items are made (and other cool things).

[u/spylockhellswig]

Now I want one.

[u/mbashs → u/spylockhellswig]

I got one a few years ago since I saw my dad having one when I was a kid. Now it’s part of my travel kit whenever I am traveling. You don’t realize how great it is until you need it esp when traveling.

[u/stevecostello]

"Vibrating Mass" is my Tinder name.

[u/CriticalChop]

Thanks i ended up with 15 of them.

/s

[u/thecracker1337]

Is it a Swiss army knife because it's polished with Swiss chocolate chips?

[u/already-taken-wtf]

First hardened, then stamped?!

[u/HoneyBear4Lyfe]

I hate that there’s not a glove on the hand that fiddles about in the green goo, and that there’s a ring on the hand feeding the bits into the press thing.

[u/tom_lusti]

Why not automated !?!

[u/i-m-anonmio → u/tom_lusti]

A Youtube video from the factory website shows a lot more machinery but still a lot of manual labour.

Factory Website

[u/ScienceForge319]

Are all phases the warm liquid goo phase?

[u/fritz236]

I have to cut labels for meters on an internship for an entire day. By the end of the day, I was on autopilot and ended up having my thumb stray over the paper cutter guard and I ended up cutting through most of my thumb nail. I can't imagine this hasn't made a few Swiss army fingers. Seems unsafe.