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Shop Improvements
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Quick episode this week going over some shop improvements we've been working on.
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Introduction and Sponsorship
00:00:02
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Audio and Music Challenges
00:00:48
Speaker
Good morning. Yeah, it is. Word on the street is that the intro music is like super loud. And I think I have found myself that it's starting to break up a little bit. It's a little distorted.
00:01:05
Speaker
Um, let us know either way so we can try and figure out I lowered the, uh, the volume on it a little bit on this one. So it's getting, I think it's getting double gained. That's the problem is the recording was recorded through these settings, which have gain. Yeah. And then it's on here with that gain already. And then when it goes into the new recording, it's getting gained on top of it again. Right. Double gain is not as good as like double chocolate or something like that. Yeah.
Shop Updates and New Equipment
00:01:38
Speaker
So. Lots of changes going on in the shop this week. Oh, man. Big ones. Yeah. And we're we're on limited time right now because we just got the call. It's it's 7 30 on Wednesday. We got the call that the the laser, the new laser will be leaving the the freight
00:01:59
Speaker
whatever yard in about a half hour. So we've got, you know, about an hour before it's showing up hour, hour and a half. Yeah. Yeah. I'm excited to see this thing. It's a big boy. Yeah. Um, I'm guessing the crate's probably going to be like eight by eight by four. Yeah. It's going to be another almost edge band or like, uh, yeah, not as long, but, uh, got to get the forklift rigged up with, uh,
00:02:26
Speaker
with the cell phone mount to get some footage. So we better hustle. Yeah, we'll do 45 minutes on this maybe. So yeah, I mean, let's see, it's Wednesday, Monday.
Kitchen Project Insights
00:02:44
Speaker
We went down to the kitchen install and wrapped that up. They had a couple of spots that need to be touched up and like two doors that need to be adjusted, you know,
00:02:55
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Piece of cake. It sounded worse than it was. Yeah. That was literally one guy, 10 minutes. Yeah. We joke, but. It was 80 minutes of driving, maybe 90 minutes of driving and 10 minutes of work. And most of that was actually just talking. Just chatting. Yes.
00:03:18
Speaker
So that's good. We're done on that. We're paid. We were able to get some nice pictures, which is good. We don't often get to do that. So that was nice.
00:03:28
Speaker
Yeah. Um, and it was actually the first time we met the client. Yeah. Well, the wife, the wife. Yeah. I'm still waiting for them to fill out that ST eight form, which, you know, yeah, we won't hold our breath. Yeah. Um, Eric was, was, is, who's a upcoming
Client Estimates and Pricing Adjustments
00:03:46
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client. We're going to be doing their mud room. Eric and Lisa. Um, he's great. I sent it over last night.
00:03:52
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I don't know when he sent it back, probably at some point last night, but it was in my inbox this morning when I woke up at four, signed ST8. All right. Send the scope of work for signature, send the invoice. All right. Easiest pie. Yeah. That's the kind of clients we like.
00:04:10
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You know, we had to we gave him a ballpark price in February. And then, you know, now pricing it out, it's like it was like 30 percent more. And, you know, didn't bat an eye, didn't have anything to say about it. You know, like, listen, prices have just been everything's going up. It's true. Yeah, sure. I mean, look at that line at the Costco gas station because they had a little bit of reduced gas price the other day. Yeah, it was a madhouse.
00:04:41
Speaker
Everybody's feeling the pinch. Yeah. I think a lot of it is manufactured in people's own head. You know what I mean? Yeah. I mean, you get that, that sort of domino effect with, with things. Yeah. People get anxious.
Video Production Setup
00:05:08
Speaker
What have we been doing in the shop? Well, let's, uh, so yeah. Oh, so I just heard somebody talking, uh, Monday. We, uh, we had to stop at Home Depot on the way down to that, um, kitchen because the, uh, so Meridian, they don't have touch-up kits for, uh, maybe they have them for paint. I don't know, but for stain, they don't have like a, you know, if you buy cabinets from say Fab you would, they'll send you a crayon and a stain, stain pen.
00:05:36
Speaker
So that you're able to do touch-up. Meridian unfortunately doesn't have that. Like I said, possibly they have it for paint, but they don't have it for stain. So the mohawk kit that we have in grays, none of them were close enough to really...
00:05:53
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On the moldings where there were pin nails, it was fine, but there were some spots that got damaged after we left and the contrast was just too much. So we went to Home Depot and grabbed a couple of crayons on our way just to be better equipped.
00:06:18
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So we said, why don't we grab some of this LP smart side, which is like a text 111 type product, a vertical four by eight siding. Like if you don't know what text 111 is, because we need to set up this wall.
00:06:35
Speaker
I don't know if we've really shown the miter saw, like where we have the miter saw in the shop on Instagram or anything really, but it's a wall to the office. So it's sort of this bump out into the shop near the overhead, between the overhead door and the bathrooms. And it's a 19 foot wall where we have the miter saw and a bunch of other bull crap just kind of sitting on the floor unorganized for the time being. But we decided
00:07:05
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for the Today's Craftsman channel in the interim while we hopefully get the old shop set up into this sort of studio space that we would designate that as like an area to shoot.
00:07:23
Speaker
You know, when we do stuff where it's like a tool or, you know, sort of that stationary kind of filming. And if you've seen the shop, the the remaining walls that weren't painted are like a hideous sort of like a jello pistachio pudding. Oh, yeah, that's a good one. Yeah, good one. Like mental and insane asylum green.
00:07:50
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So yeah, so we grabbed that, that smart side, which it's primed like a, like a khaki kind of color. It actually, it looks, it looks pretty good. You know, and maybe, I don't know, in those pictures that we took yesterday, I feel like it looked kind of, I don't know, maybe it looked a little bit weird. I mean, we could always paint it.
00:08:09
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So anyway, yesterday, Rob cut with the track saw at like 98 inches and ripped out the old stuff and put that up. That track saw does everything. Yeah. It really does.
00:08:26
Speaker
That's a great tool, especially with that 109 inch track or whatever it is, 118 inch track. It was 118 inches. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That thing comes in handy. Like if you need to cut diagonally across a four by eight, it's nice for that. Yeah. I guess that's why it's that long. They probably, you know, that must be the hypotenuse across a four by eight sheet. Yeah.
00:08:53
Speaker
Yeah, because what do you cut, you know, five by nines, I guess, too. Oh, yeah. Because nine is what, 108, 108. Yeah. So, yes, that looks nice.
Door Replacement Project
00:09:06
Speaker
We we also replaced the bathroom door. Finally, you know, we had that door built for, I don't know, a couple of months now, just sitting on the side. You painted it what last week?
00:09:17
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Yeah, yeah. In the unusual gray, the Lacey 1K unusual gray, which is a nice color. Yeah, it's like this almost like a sky blue gray. Mm hmm. Or like a Carolina blue gray. It's nice. Yeah, to me, it looked a lot nicer than I remember it on on that cabinet. Yeah, it was the blues really kind of came out.
00:09:47
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Yeah, it seemed more gray on that cabinet. I don't know. It might just be our memory. Yeah. And the lighting against Walnut, you know, so.
00:09:58
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changes. Um, so yeah. So you rip, you rip, Rob ripped out the door, the old door yesterday, which was like this hollow core. Like you could lift it with a pinky over your head. If you wanted to. Yeah. The veneer was like shredded and delaminated. Yeah. It didn't close at all. So now we have a nice solid pine inch and three quarter
00:10:25
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you know, v-groove paneled door that, you know, it kerchunks the entire wall when you close it. Yeah. It's like super solid. I still can recall Jacqueline describing her bathroom experience here as terrifying. Yeah.
00:10:46
Speaker
Yeah, it's shaping up in there. Two walls painted a nice beautiful door closes with that solid sort of security that you want when you go when you go into a bathroom. Yeah, if we.
00:11:02
Speaker
You know, if we maybe painted the the wall with the door and then I don't know if we could like pad out to hide those pipes and then just put like a little vanity in there.
Video Collaboration with John Peters
00:11:15
Speaker
And, you know, the ceiling is ceiling needs some work. It would be easier just to cover it up with a sheet of sheet of rock and put some crown molding. Exactly.
00:11:25
Speaker
Yeah, it wouldn't be too bad. We could paint the floor with some commands. Put a nice light fixture in there. Yeah, move it so that it's not like in some random fucking spot like it's in now. Right now we got the bare bald.
00:11:38
Speaker
It is a bare bulb, isn't it? Yeah. And it's like, uh, like a 40 watt. We're, we're energy conscious. Incandescent bulb no longer available in the United States. That's new news. They, uh, the incandescent bulb is out. Yeah. It's, it's a, I guess it's banned. It is banned. Wow. We probably still have some in the basement.
00:12:08
Speaker
Um, no, I don't have any, I've got a bunch of led bulbs, but you know, I don't really have many things that take a life bulb. Yeah. Because you know, I got recess lighting downstairs and we have one floor lamp. Um, the thing that burns out the most is the, uh, the fart fan in the, in the bathroom, uh, yeah, bulb in there for some reason it, it, uh,
00:12:34
Speaker
when the incandescent that was in there burnt out, which was like 120 watt or something, it was real bright. I put in like a, I don't know what it was, probably like a 60 watt equivalent LED and it was kind of dim. And then that burnt out somehow. I replaced it. The fixture is probably, it's things ancient, but it, it blows out that hot air. Yeah. Which is nice. Yeah. Especially in the winter time. Um,
00:13:00
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So yeah, aside from that, you know, I've been painting yesterday and this morning, the backs of those barn doors, you know, we're into the finished, finished paint, which is a command in Benjamin Moore commanding gunsmith gray, which is a nice color. Yeah. I'm happy with the way the doors turned out. Yeah. Yeah. I'm, you know, excited to flip them over and see the face with some paint on them.
00:13:28
Speaker
I kind of like the way the backs look too. Yeah. With the frame, you know, and I think, you know, people when, uh, you know, when they're in the pool house, if they have one door open, one door closed, that Nancy will probably be getting some compliments on the back, even though it's not the look that she really wants. Um, you know, it would have been nice if they had the V groove on two sides, but all this tongue and groove stuff is always edge and center B don't want and V groove on the other. Um, but it looks good.
00:13:59
Speaker
Command is so John came by yesterday. I were planning on putting out a video about these doors. You know, we kind of got into it a little bit late because we were we were already through fabricating the doors and priming them. But
00:14:15
Speaker
You know, I think it's a good sort of good subject matter of like, here's how you fix a screw up, you know. So I sent him, I took some video spraying because I thought it'd be good for the video. I sent it to him and he said, well, if you're spraying, I might as well come by and shoot some stuff. So John came over and we shot a video about the PPS spray system. That should be out in the next couple of days. Yeah. Building that content library.
00:14:45
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. It's it's a lot of fun. You know, it's it's it could be stressful to like carve, try and carve out that time because like, you know, got my to do list over there. And yesterday it was like I checked off like two out of 12 things that I wanted to get done. Well, it was it was an ambitious list anyway. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like you always try. Got to try and have more on there than you can finish.
00:15:15
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But yeah, I think in the long run, you know, it'll all be worth it. Definitely. I mean, John's got some very high hopes. Yeah. And I believe what he has to say because he's he's been doing this for a long time. Yeah, I think I think the
Launching Today's Craftsman Online
00:15:34
Speaker
channel will be successful. So if you if you didn't listen last week and you're listening now, we have a new channel, YouTube channel and and all social media, well, not all social media.
00:15:44
Speaker
Eventually, I guess we'll have all social medias, Instagram and Facebook. Today's craftsman with a M-E-N. So it's myself, Rob and John Peters. Oh, check it out and subscribe please and follow on Instagram. I think we have like maybe 140 subscribers on YouTube right now.
00:16:12
Speaker
See if we can bump that up to 1000 today. Yeah. 136 on YouTube. And like we're approaching 300 followers on Instagram, which considering that on YouTube.
00:16:27
Speaker
John has nearly 900,000 subscribers and we have like 2,000. And on Instagram, John's got like, I think 50,000 followers and we have, no, maybe he's got 40 something thousand. We have 38,000. We thought that maybe we'd convert some more traffic to the pages.
00:16:51
Speaker
The conversion rate is a little slow. Yeah, more than 300 in a week. But, you know, it's tough. And, you know, we have to have something to offer. It's not like we just expect people. Yeah. $299. We're about to crack $300. All right. Which I mean, you know.
00:17:08
Speaker
put the put the existing followers aside. That's pretty good growth in a week. 300. I mean, I know people who fight and claw for years to get through to 300. You know, it's you. How many do you have? How many Instagram followers do I have? Yeah. Let me check. 500.
00:17:27
Speaker
I have no I have 433. I have 433. And you've been up for, you know, several years. Yeah, four years. I mean, not that you're trying that hard, but but I mean, it could take a long time to get 300. I remember, you know, it probably took me. I remember when I hit a thousand was like, holy crap. I don't even know what I have on my personal page, which I haven't posted on.
00:17:52
Speaker
in ages, but 1200, you know, so, you know, I'm not, not super disappointed with 300. I'm just riding on the coattails of green street joinery. People say, what's, what's this Rob green street guy?
00:18:11
Speaker
Sorry, I lost my train of thought. So yeah, so we're getting that, trying to get that wall all set up, figure we can make a nice logo on the laser, maybe make a Green Street one and a Today's Craftsman one.
Enhancing Lighting for Filming
00:18:22
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That way we can swap them out like when, because we have to film a bunch of videos for this laser. So it'll be cool. It's going to be a cool spot. You just started seeing in those, those wallycombs. We had these rusty
00:18:38
Speaker
half rust, half peeling green paint, lolly columns. It's funny when you start doing something like that, like fixing an area out, apparent all the other things because we thought of that side and then all of a sudden you look and those two columns are just jumping out at you. And when you see the juxtaposition of like the new LP smart side to the old stuff and it's just, it's super crusty.
00:19:07
Speaker
I think we should probably like maybe picture frame the whole thing. Yeah. And I don't know. Do we add some verticals where the, where the, where the sheets come together? Yeah. Yeah. Almost like a bat and kind of thing. Yeah. It can't hurt.
00:19:22
Speaker
I guess the only thing is if we want to hang stuff, then it might get in the way. But yeah, we got to cover that seam at the top at least. And might as well do the bottom and the sides while we're at it. You know, make it look nice when we have clients and stuff at the shop. I ordered a couple, I wanted to show you because I was talking about it yesterday, trying to explain what the hell they were. A couple of lights, because we have a lot of shadows in that area.
00:19:50
Speaker
because there's a bunch of duct work. There's an air handler right there that I would like to rip out because it doesn't really work.
00:20:02
Speaker
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So one of these like 360, I got two of them, these 360 work lights. It says 400 watt equivalent and they're linkable and it's got a 14 foot cord. So I figured we could probably suspend it from a wire, get it right below the duct work and we can put two of them.
00:20:21
Speaker
Yeah. And that should be good fill light to get rid of all those shadows because it's not that it's dark. There's just a lot of shadows. Yeah. That's another thing I never really gave a thought to, but working with John, you know, he's very conscious of it and you could see the difference.
00:20:42
Speaker
Yeah. I wonder if maybe all three of those lights that we had for the podcast, if we can mount those on the wall above the
00:20:55
Speaker
the smart side and kind of angle them so that we get some lighting on the wall like an accent like maybe like a warm light at the top. Yeah. You know, because the like you want you want like a daylight for filming, but then you, you know, to have that warm accent light on shining on to say we have some tools and stuff hanging on the wall would would look real nice.
00:21:19
Speaker
Lighting is one of those those things that can make a break like a photo shoot or I remember back in the day doing like a quote-unquote professional photo shoots, you know all the prep work that went into it the lighting the makeup the way they make you up for a photo shoot you you look ridiculous. Yeah, that's like on TV, you know, it's like those like
00:21:46
Speaker
Any man that's on TV is wearing makeup. It's not like, you know, it's just the camera brings things out that you can't see usually. We'd have to go to a makeup artist and they do all kinds of stuff and you're like, I look hideous. But then on film, it's like you can't really tell. You can't tell that you're wearing makeup. Right.
00:22:11
Speaker
Yeah, it's an exciting project. I think it'll be successful. Oh, yeah. I think so too. And it's a nice sort of change of pace. Yeah. You know, because sometimes just working can be a little bit of a grind. You know, you get that grind, but
00:22:30
Speaker
Like, you know, you can get in a rut almost where it's the same thing. And this is really such a breath of fresh air to be doing some of this stuff and working with somebody outside the company like John brings a new perspective. There's a cobweb going from that chair all the way over, I think, to this microphone stand. It's like curved. The cobwebs are insane here. Yeah.
00:22:59
Speaker
We had one that went all the way across the ceiling of the of the office. It was like 15 feet long. What's worse, the cobwebs or those vines that grow up through the floor? Yeah, probably those.
00:23:14
Speaker
We, we ever mentioned the Japanese knotweed. Oh yeah. Ad nauseam. So yeah, aside from that, let's see what we've got going on lasers coming
New Equipment Orders
00:23:26
Speaker
today. We, we did order a hammer edge sander, HS nine 50 from Felder.
00:23:32
Speaker
Felder hammer hammer is made by Felder or whatever. They're under the same thing. I was supposed to get a response on lead time, but I did not hear. They said that it should ship soon. You know, it was one of those where it said it was available, but it turns out that.
00:23:50
Speaker
Not really available, but we do have some time. We just got paid on the salt boxes yesterday. So we can I'm going to order the material today. We'll probably get cracking on those in the next three weeks because the the material is going to take, you know, it's got like a two week lead time. So, yeah. Oh, coach. Yeah. We got to get the laser set up, get acquainted with it, probably do some rearranging and figure out
00:24:17
Speaker
you know, how the workflow is going to work. We definitely got to make some freaking work tables. Oh, yeah. I think we'll be able to repurpose those Nancy's doors. I think at least for like a top.
00:24:35
Speaker
You know, if we make like Justin De Palma was was telling me you make like an I-beam out of plywood, you know, to the top, just like a TJI top and bottom with a dado piece of plywood and you can basically flatten anything, you know, you know, because that thing won't, it won't bend. So I think if we put a couple of those on the bottom, maybe three.
00:25:00
Speaker
Yeah. They don't have to be 57 by 96. That's a little too big. Plus that stuff is so frigging heavy. Yeah. The new doors feel light in comparison. Yeah. Oh yeah. And they're pretty heavy, which will also be an improvement. You know, those tracks are rated for enough weight, but, you know, never want to push these things to the limit. Yeah. And we talk about our field trip we're going on.
00:25:31
Speaker
Yeah, so I was going to say tomorrow John's also coming by. We're going to shoot another video on the shelf pin inserts that we use. So keep an eye out for that.
Upcoming Podcast Guest Spot
00:25:41
Speaker
And then Friday we're heading out to Hughesville, Pennsylvania. First, we're going to go check out the guys at Lewis Lumber who were on episode, I want to say two of the RT machine podcast.
00:25:57
Speaker
I think it was too. And then we're going to head over to RT and be on their podcast. So that should be fun. I'm looking forward to seeing their shot. Yeah. Yeah. 80,000 square feet of woodworking machinery, which like
00:26:19
Speaker
Oh, probably the tractor to go sweep the beach. Yeah. Um, we don't have anywhere around here that you can go and like look at woodworking machines. Yeah. That's loud. Yeah. I wonder if that's a street sweeper. No, they went by already. Oh, maybe he's coming back the other way. It looked whatever it was. It looked tall. They, uh,
00:26:43
Speaker
If you guys don't live near the beach, what they do is they have these things that they pull behind tractors and they actually clean the beach, like sweep the beach, like takes, I don't know what it, I guess it like stirs up the sand and takes the stuff out. Not all the beaches, but the portion of them. When I was a kid, going to Coney Island, we used to have to wear sneakers on the beach.
00:27:13
Speaker
much like broken glass and everything. Yeah. It was medical waste back then. In the seventies. It was really bad. Even out here, you know, cause all this stuff would wash up from New York onto Sandy Hook and these, this beach, Kingsburg. I don't remember what the hell I was talking about.
00:27:30
Speaker
Oh, yeah. So there's not really any places around here. I shouldn't say there's not really. There's not any places around here at all that you can go see woodworking machinery, let alone this like industrial machinery.
Dust Collection Challenges and Solutions
00:27:42
Speaker
So there's going to be all kinds of stuff that we've never even seen before. Did you ever go up to force machinery up there on 22? Nope. Excuse me. They're closed now, but that was the only place that had any kind of
00:27:58
Speaker
woodworking stuff, you know, like a table saw or band saw like, like almost like one of those woodcraft stores. Yeah. This says 2011. They went out of business. Wow. Wow. Yeah. Oh my God. I bought, remember that before Max Sander that, uh, yeah. Yeah.
00:28:19
Speaker
We got our eyes on a on a new used dust collector open to hear back from the guy today. Iron Oak is the name of the company. You guys may follow them on Instagram. They're like a millwork company out of out of the city. The shop is in is in Queens.
00:28:42
Speaker
While Willie said it's like basically in Brooklyn, so it must be. Long Island City. Yeah. Yeah. It's it's right over the water from Manhattan. Like at the tip of Queens. OK, that's good. It's not that far of a drive. Not like we're going to almost the Long Island. No, no. Not that we're not used to that. But so, yeah, you know, I would love to buy that machine.
00:29:06
Speaker
Oh, me too. Me too. I cringe every time I got to turn on that big grizzly. That's horrible. It's a Laguna Flux 5 horsepower. So it's a cyclone and it has auto clean, which needs a part, but, you know, whatever we can do with that for now. He said it's like $120 part. So.
00:29:27
Speaker
Yeah, he's supposed to send me a video of it running today and he said that, you know, I said, is it like easy to get a part enough to get inside of a Sprinter van? He said, you know, it might be a little bit, but I could give you a hand, take it apart.
00:29:43
Speaker
Seems like a nice guy. I sort of found him on Instagram last night when I, because if you're ever talking to somebody on Facebook marketplace, it always pays to do a little research into their, you know, go onto their personal page, see where they work. Like, you know,
00:29:59
Speaker
Make sure that this is a real genuine human being, that it's not some guy overseas trying to scam you. Exactly. I just sold a bunch of pedals and I sold my small Mesa Boogie amp and I emailed the guy and I said, do you want me to take the tubes out?
00:30:21
Speaker
Um, before I ship and he said, uh, you know, I don't really have an answer for that. He says, I checked up on you and you have such great ratings. He says, I trust how you're going to back it. And it's like, Oh man, I never even thought of that. Yeah. See, it pays to be honest. Um, so yeah, I mean, it's a good deal. They, um, they seem to be pretty good dust collectors. It can't be any worse than what the hell we got now. That thing is horrible. So if you're in the market for a five horsepower double bag,
00:30:50
Speaker
Grizzly. Uh, let us know. We'll give it to you for a really good price. It's not that it doesn't collect. It's that it emits a lot of fine dust. Yeah. Like if you hook it up to like a planer or a joiner or table saw something like it's on the wide belt sander and the edge banner. So
00:31:09
Speaker
The edge banner pre milling is taking off a half mill or one mill of wood and it's grinding it into a fine dust and sucking it out. And the the wide belt sander is obviously creating a lot of fine dust. So this thing, the bags are like. What were they, five micron or something? It's a pretty big. Well, pretty coarse.
00:31:36
Speaker
So yeah, it's a mess in that corner where the dust collector is. And it's like, even if we're using it on the shaper and making chips, all that dust inside is getting stirred up and it's coming out of the bag. So it's just not going to work for us. We have a very specific height restriction right there. We need something with a 10 inch
00:32:02
Speaker
inlet because that's what we have piped now. I don't want to go and change all the ductwork. So it's like this seems like the only, not the only, but one of the only dust collectors that will work. There was another one up in Maine for a little bit more money, which, you know, it was maybe a little bit newer, but it was like an eight hour drive. Yeah. Farther away. Yeah. I mean, we could have got some nice lobster rolls, but yeah, I can't even imagine what those costs now.
00:32:32
Speaker
Yeah. I had a main lobster when I was on my little motorcycle trip, but since I'm not really a connoisseur of that stuff, I was sort of, I think it was lost on me. Yeah. I like lobster. I like crab. I like all that stuff. Yeah. Shrimp. I'm a big fan of shrimp. North Carolina man in the Outer Banks. I have some good shrimp.
00:32:55
Speaker
Oh, yeah, I guess it comes right out of the Pimlico sound. So, yeah, hopefully we can close the deal on that. Maybe maybe shoot out there next week or something and get that get that, you know, because we're kind of in this this time right now where we have.
Managing Workflow and Timelines
00:33:13
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We have two jobs in the shop, aside from these doors that, you know, so we just confirmed finish on the one yesterday. And the other one is like we didn't even field verify the job yet. Apparently they're having issues getting permits, but, you know, you built basically 90 percent of it. Yeah, I just had to cross our fingers now.
00:33:34
Speaker
Because it was just like, wow, it's like we have this little void in time, just we'll just build as much as, you know, as much of this thing as we can. Yeah. So what the hell was I saying? Oh, yeah. So like we have like a little bit of time where before all these new jobs that are that are just getting paid for hit that we can get that in and up and running before before we got to actually start working. That would be sweet. Yeah. Because
00:34:03
Speaker
Hooking it up, you know, we can probably hook it up to the Felder or something like that. The hammer or what we use to collect the dust on that. Was it a vacuum or was it a? No, we use the I was thinking that we could put the hammer right by the shaper on the other side of that pole because we were talking about like doing an assembly table there, but like a fixed assembly table, it doesn't seem like it's going to be a thing.
00:34:25
Speaker
Not going to work. It's too rigid of a constraint. We need mobile assembly tables. I think that's a good spot by the shaper. We got plenty of electricity there. Yeah. We could just T off of the Y off of the existing dust collection pipe and just add a four inch. And then, you know, if it's set up in there, we'll use it more often because there's definitely times where it could be used. Right. You just want to flip it on and ready to go.
00:34:55
Speaker
I'm assuming that Laguna has a remote, which would be good because as petty as it sounds, walking over and turning on the dust collector every time sucks. You don't know how many times I try because we have one for the for the Oneida. Yeah. And every time I use any of the other dust collectors, I'm always reaching to where I keep my little key fob remote. Yeah.
00:35:16
Speaker
Yeah, I think if we did that, if we got that dust collector and then we tied the, well, we should probably wait until we find out with the Stree
Awaiting Contest Results
00:35:26
Speaker
Big thing. So that's closed. The entries are closed for the Stree Big contest and they're going to choose a winner about on the 25th or something like that. So we should probably wait to find out for that. But I was saying, you know, hook the table saw or hopefully the Stree Big into that dust collector.
00:35:42
Speaker
Free up the hobby. Yep. And then maybe Harvey can hit the road. And, you know, not that it's not that it's a bad dust collector. It's just, you know, if we don't need it, it's got to go. And then maybe maybe we pipe the gorilla into the bandsaw, planer, joiner, table saws.
00:36:03
Speaker
Yeah, it's already feeding the table saws. Yeah. Well, yeah, like with a temporary eight month temporary flex hose laying on the ground. That's the most graceful solution. Yeah. So I don't know if I guess we would just leave it where it is. There's really no need to move it and we could probably raise it up and get a 55 under there.
00:36:25
Speaker
Yeah, that would be nice and put it on a dolly even. Yeah. So we can wheel it to the dumpster. Yeah, they have those ones for the brute cans that would probably work on a... You just get like an old chemical container or something. I'm constantly looking on Facebook and everybody's so
00:36:44
Speaker
freaking wishy washy with those things. You message them and they never get back to you. The one guy was like, yeah, you know, I was like, we want three because I wanted one for the Delta, two for the Grizzly. He's like, I only get them every couple of weeks. Let me get a couple together. And then the guy disappears. I'm like, yeah.
00:37:01
Speaker
I want to buy these from you. Like, can you just please get them and sell them to me? People are weird. Yeah. So, I mean, you can buy them online, too. It's like 150 bucks new, but you can get them used for anywhere between, you know, 25 to 50. Yeah. So that would be nice. You know, finally get all that figured out, not running for dust collectors like we are now. Yeah, I know it's crazy.
00:37:31
Speaker
Oh man. Um, so what route do we take out to Pennsylvania? Uh, I don't know. Let's see. After, after we discussed this, you should probably cut it because we better get, yeah. We got to get the van out. It's 146 miles right now. It's three hour and 32 minute drive.
00:38:00
Speaker
So we could either take, well, no, we're not, we wouldn't go that way. That would be an hour longer. Oh, geez. So we'd shoot up 36 and hop on a Parkway. Parkway up to East Orange, get on two 80, two 80 into, into 80. Yeah.
00:38:26
Speaker
And I think that all the way out. Through East Stroudsburg, Tanner'sville, didn't we just something was in Tanner'sville? That does sound familiar. It was a used machine or something. 80, 80, 80. That's Bloomsburg.
00:38:54
Speaker
Then we get onto 180. I had a little bit north to our team machine company. Ooh, there's a sheets right down the road. Muncie is like the next town over right on the west branch of the Susquehanna. Yeah. Susquehanna river. Williamsport. Oh yeah. I've been to Williamsport. Yeah.
00:39:25
Speaker
It's it's pretty close to the border in New York. Like Elmira's is maybe a hour north. It used to be a big grizzly. It's not too far from Scranton. Oh, that's not bad. No, because like when we go to to Pulaski, we go through Scranton. So we take I guess kind of the same thing. We take 80 and then
00:39:53
Speaker
forget what we hop on to 81 maybe or I think that's how we go. We might even go. Yeah, it's off a 220. We've probably been relatively close to it. There's a town called Jersey shore. Really?
00:40:21
Speaker
Huh. Not too far from Williamsport. Yeah. Well, we better run. Thanks for listening and yeah, stay tuned.
00:40:31
Speaker
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00:41:02
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