This $2 Steel Rod Trick Saved Me Thousands

Can I peel sheets. I'm good at it. I can peel lots of sheets really fast. How much money I get?

when you said you paid $27 to peel the sheet, did you not calculate it for 1 person doing the job?? shouldn't it be (6.75 * $4)*2 = $54, so your savings would be double.

From a safety standpoint in your video, you should have a handrail around your mezzanine,

You could save all that labor cost but just letting the end used peel their own...just saying.

But you aren't really saving, you still have to pay the people. All you are doing is giving them more free time to go on their phones looking at naked girls because you have automated the job... :D :D :D

Two things:

I've been using the round bar trick to peel stainless for over 10 years.
You CAN order the stainless WITHOUT laserfilm and save additional cost.

You are paying those two guys $4 per minute, or $38,800 per month? Gees I want to work for your company! Or does your whole staff (including accountants) watch sheet peeling and cheer from the sides? Or maybe you did some click-baity math mis-calculation?

damn cool idea with the rod... who cares if it gets scratched tho?? its a practice piece right? i sure as hell havnt put my practice pieces in a glass case and made a book end trophy out of them. can you do it multiple times with the same rod or is the built up diameter too much for the drill? thinking you could take that wrapped rod and cut it into say 6 or so lengths and make some kind of ghetto tool out of it

I just took a quick look at the comments and didn't see this, try lifting a bit on one long edge and push the blowgun tip between the aluminum and the protective covering and see if blowing it up will remove it, worth a try. Keep the videos coming please and good luck.

Very good tip. But in my workshop i prefer having it on until after delivery. Stainless steel scratch easily. And film protects it. But if i definetly will be showing our employees this since it can be very useful when cutting large amounts of sheets and there is no spare material to put back into shelf.

Stating the obvious here, State and Federal Government employees almost never “Chase the olive”.
As a former Federal civilian employee I can say from experience that chasing the olive isn’t encouraged by management.
‘“That’s the way we always do it” is the mind set.
Innovation and creativity aren’t encouraged or rewarded, especially by the Government employee Unions.
Hopefully DOGE will help change things.

Nice video. You are engaged in the process and seeking to improve your company and profit margins. As long as you pay a living wage and you don’t compromise safety, go man go.

I work for a billion dollar company, we build steel electrical enclosures, I work in the stainless building and all of our 304 and 316 stainless sheets, regardless of thickness comes plastic coated like that. We have been peeling our sheets in the same way with a drill but we use threaded rod and to the best of my knowledge have been doing it this way for decades! We never strip the plastic back off of the rod when we’re done, we just keep using the same rod until it’s about 6-8 inches thick. I’m definitely gonna bring up the fact that if we used 3/8 rebar instead of 3/8 threaded rod that we would save the company thousands a year.

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CHASE THAT OLIVE BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANKS JUSTIN

This is why quality sucks today. Make the product as shitty as possible and find the price people will still pay. McDonald's loves this strategy.

Its not the scratches, so much as the carbon pick up, from even touching carbon steel causes rust at that location.

Probably been said already but why not leave it on and let the customer peel it off when they get it .

Any reason you cant just process the steel with pvc on and ship to customer allowing them to peel it as a "mint in box" experience???

What are these "coupons" used for?

What are the coupons used for

If you want to save time then don't waste it listening to commenters who don't work in your field or have any idea what they're talking about.

The big problem is, customers are getting more and more lazier these days

I seriously hope that you don't actually make any business decisions based on this 4.03$/min, unless the only productive work being done is selling those coupons...Seriously, your business would need 240$/hour rate for every single operation to be charged to your customer to break even.

My mother had a great saying. 'If you watch the nickels and dimes, the dollars take care of themselves'. Waste in business is foolish. Yes, you can go too far but common sense should be your guiding light.

remove the covering off the coupons after cutting them and soak them in acetone.

The government would still be picking the corner.

Save all that time and let the customer do the peeling.

Saving time is not necessarily saving money!

The FALLACY with such conclusions is assuming that the time saved will be used for something else.

Not every minute of every work day is productive, unless the worker is earning profit every minute of the day. This might be true on an assembly line, but not for most lines of work. Sure, time savings might result in some cost savings, but only paid efficiency expert consultants assume 100% savings.

On the other hand, any cost savings aside, making a tedious task shorter and easier leads to employees more pleased with their working conditions. This would be even more important if you involved the employees in the decision making, thereby having them “own” the solution. Every time they do the task in a better AND more enjoyable way, in the back of their mind they’re thinking “I helped come up with this idea!” Even if YOU come up with the idea, approaching employees with an idea for a new idea and asking “what do you think of this, or, would this make your job easier?” would get better long term results.

Buy the SS on the rell?

Two thoughts. First, you don’t get that money back unless those two guys who were peeling are then doing something else with that time to generate income (i.e. you actually need to make more money with that time).Did you actually earn more with that saved time?
Second, those end bits you are scrapping, can’t you simply adjust the coupon width so that the last strip comes out the same width. I’ve got to believe, given the number of strips you’re cutting it would be a very, very small fraction of an inch adjustment.

As some to fabs stainless you have a nice truck!

Or, just ship the coupons with the film, so that they are protected until the customer wants to use it, and let the customer spend 10 seconds peeling the film off. I buy plenty of laser cut parts like acrylic and am happy to remove the film. I doubt you would lose customers if it shipped with the film, and you save even more money.

That is one clever way of doing things. This peal to remove is crazy strong on medicine packages or anything you get today where you pick with fingernails to remove.. I am seventy five, ex mechanic of diesel engines and fabricator on heavy equipment. Glad to see and learn new things every day

For all those that said, "it's only a few thousand dollars," message me and I'll give you my Cashapp so you can send me $3,000. After all, it's ONLY a few thousand dollars. Probably the same people complaining that they can't afford groceries with their new cars and $2,000 phones. 🤦‍♂️

What are the coupons used for?

Order without plastic, save money and environment

Your a good dude, i bet your employees respect you, and thru that also like you. Which would make you an even better dude. Oh and i love how you deal wth the armchair journeymen.

Every time I see one of those manufacturing videos from Indian subcontinent and they make something and throw it on the floor and then someone has to pick it up, it goes to the next step and the same thing happens and someone has to pick them up and walk half way across the building, I'm screaming why don't you put them in a basket in the first place and get yourself a trolly and save your back, it really frustrates me 😁
And doing everything in sandles 😂

Just cut the sheet and let the customer peel it off.

Would someone explain why the full sheet is getting peeled to make small blanks which are then bagged and could get scratches? Why not just cut and bag?

Used to do sheet metal work. We got a flat of metal that peeled so bad it came off in pieces the size of half dollar coins. Boss said we had to use it. You have to go somewhere in your mind to do that crap.

Would it be easier to peel if the sheets were heated up some.

Your math scares me. Your hourly figure is for EVERY employee. I only saw two working. So, for the actual amount saved, your expansion might look like, say, ...a new calculator.

Even crazier is not realizing you can order the material from the supplier without the film

Somehow all my money saving ideas involve buying tools and equipment that i wont necessarily need

Your 4 dollar per minute was for total payroll. You lost me at the start.

Now you just have to work out how to design a machine to do that to remove all the manual labour.

I worked at a company where my job was assembling sub assemblies for a large x ray machine. Supervisor told me that it takes two hours to put one assembly together, from start to finish or four a day. One day instead of working two hours on an assembly, I set up an assembly line of the beginning parts, then the next parts, and the next parts etc.

Supervisor walked by and saw what I was doing and chewed me out telling me that I doing the work wrong, I should do it the way I had been shown. I told supervisor to look at yesterdays work bin and count the subassemblies. He returned to my work bench and said, there are 10 in the bin. I said yeah and there will be 10 in todays bin too at the end of the work day. The next day he apologized to me for chewing me out.