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Teary-Eyed Shorty
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Introduction and Sponsor Thanks
00:00:24
Speaker
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the show. Yeah, man. I got that muted in just a nick of time. Um, we almost missed this podcast, Keith, but popped into my head and then Keith said, uh, just go record something.
00:00:38
Speaker
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00:01:03
Speaker
Yeah. Um, so we don't have much time this week because it is two 30 and, uh, you gotta leave soon.
Eye Injury Incident
00:01:14
Speaker
Yeah. I got to leave the shop by three for a doctor's appointment. Um, got something in my eye yesterday and, uh, basically, so we went to install those, um, laminate shelving units that we built.
00:01:30
Speaker
We got them in. The only thing left was to do the tops. So we, uh, we came back to the shop to cut them here. You know, we took, took some measurements. Um, and on the last cut with the track saw, I got something in my eye.
00:01:43
Speaker
And you know, it happens usually, you know, usually you could just get it out, goes, works its way to the corner of your eye or whatever. And that's that, you know, your eye might be a little sore or something, but, um, I don't know. I never saw anything in my eye. I couldn't find anything. So I ended up going to the urgent care and, um, they couldn't see anything and they prescribed some eyedrops, antibiotic eyedrops, which, um,
00:02:12
Speaker
When I put them in, it actually caused like a bunch of irritation. And long story short, I woke up this morning, that was probably seven o'clock last night. I woke up this morning, my eyelid was like, still is super swollen. It was like a scene out of Rocky.
00:02:27
Speaker
Yeah, like swollen, almost shut. So I, you know, started at 7 30. I called every single eye doctor that that, you know, as they opened and thankfully my eye doctor, which didn't open till one, called me about 12 50 for an appointment at 3 30. So yeah, everybody was just ready to help. Yeah.
00:02:49
Speaker
We're like, yeah, no, there's nothing we can really do. Emergency, sorry. You can't see, you got something in your eye. Can you come in next Wednesday? Yeah, like I just want to, you know, make sure that my eyes are in danger. The best response of all was when you called back the emergency place.
00:03:11
Speaker
Oh yeah. So I called the, I ended up calling the, um, urgent care that I went to last night. I said, Hey, listen, I know you guys said that if, if it got worse to call an eye doctor, um, I said, I did. I, you know, I called, left the message at mine. I called all around and can't get anywhere. Can I come in and you guys could just, you know, just take a look at it. And they're like, no, no, there's nothing we could do for you. Okay.
00:03:45
Speaker
I don't have a response now because that just hit me for, uh, hit me out of left field. Didn't it? Yeah. Like, can you just take a look and just, you know, make sure that my eyes and like infected or something? Yeah. Oh God. I'll pay the $75 copay again. Yeah. I'm surprised they didn't want me coming in just for that. I know. I know.
00:04:14
Speaker
Oh man. So it's, it's slightly better than it was this morning. I mean, this morning was really, um, but it's still quite swollen right now. It doesn't feel too bad. It goes in and out. And plus I have, I have this eye Twitch in this eye that I've had for the last, I don't even know, six or eight weeks. So then it starts doing that. And then it aggregates the eye and we're going fishing tomorrow. Yeah.
00:04:42
Speaker
So that's the thing is I got to get this checked out before we leave town. Um, so hopefully they got something for me. They'll be able to either get out what's in there or give me some kind of medicine to help ease the pain and discomfort. Yeah. And like I said, you know, I'll deal with that if I have to, but I just want to, I don't want to have to worry about my eye. I can't, you know, I can't leave town if I don't know that I'm not potentially screwing up my vision or something.
00:05:14
Speaker
Well, I think they'll get to the bottom of it. You go into a qualified doctor that knows you. Yeah. It's the guy that did my Lasik. So he's like the head of ophthalmology at Riverview. Oh yeah. So he'll hook you up.
Edge Bander Adventure
00:05:27
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. You're going to have to let me know though, what happens because I'm concerned. Yeah. We'll see.
00:05:35
Speaker
stick a needle in my eye. Let me just stick around there with this needle real quick. See you coming.
00:05:46
Speaker
So, uh, aside from that, that, uh, experience, uh, we want to fill everybody in on what we did the last couple of days of our week. Yeah. So Monday. So last time we talked was last Wednesday when Ed was here. Um, and we didn't even get to talk about that's when the edge bander came was last Wednesday. So, um, you know, we're expecting the edge bander, get a knock, you know, 10 to 12. I think they said we get a knock on the door.
00:06:15
Speaker
Those kids outside? Yeah, I guess so. Open it up, it's the guy delivering the edge banner. I look, turn my head, box truck. I'm like, what the fuck? I guess it's supposed to be on a trailer. He's like, where's your loading dock? I'm like, what loading dock? I'm like, I filled out the form that said, it's like, do you have a loading dock? Yes or no? Check, no. Do you need a lift gate? No.
00:06:43
Speaker
know, figuring it's going to be on a flatbed trailer because we don't have a loading dock. So yeah. That was an adventure. Yeah. What we had to do is drag it out as far as we could because it was set back, you know, it was pushed into the truck pretty far. So we used some, some lifting straps and actually wrapped it around the pallet, which was made out of four by sixes.
00:07:08
Speaker
and pulled it out, then I got the forks underneath of one end. I mean, you gotta realize this thing's 14 feet long. And about four feet high. And about 3000 pounds. Yeah. So I get my forks under one end and proceed to pull it out of the truck while the truck driver is on the other side with a pallet jack until we can get the pallet jack all the way onto the lift gate
00:07:35
Speaker
Yeah, it was pretty sketchy and scary. I mean, cause it's like seven feet in the air, the bottom of it. Yeah. Maybe a little bit, maybe not, maybe about five feet. Yeah, that's right. Cause it's the bottom. It's the truck. Yeah. Um, yeah. So this thing is up the top of it's 10 feet in the air and I've got the forks under one end and he's got the thing. So there's, you know, 10 feet in the middle. That's just over nothing. There's cars going by.
00:08:05
Speaker
I'm expecting the thing to roll off of the, you know, roll off the forks and freaking crush a car. Right. We're on Main Street in Kingsburg. Literally. So we finally get it out to the lift gate and then lower the lift gate and the forklift sort of simultaneously, you know, as best as we could. Um, and then it was easy then, you know, I, uh,
00:08:26
Speaker
Pulled it back, he got the pallet jack under one end and the forklift behind it. We pushed it in the shop, into place, took it off the thing, hooked it up, hooked up whatever we had to do, the dust collection and rough level and all it should.
00:08:44
Speaker
And then Monday, Brian and Josh from RT came by, set it all up. And we actually edge banded all the parts for the job that we installed the last two days. So it was like, you know, we were here till 7 45. Those guys stayed.
00:09:01
Speaker
So big shout out to them. Yeah. You know, they stayed all the way till the end and saw us through the whole job. So yeah, they kind of led the way at the beginning. Then towards the end, they just kind of watched us do it.
00:09:15
Speaker
Yeah. And it was, you know, it's one thing to walk around the machine and say, okay, this knob does this, this knob does that, this is that, this is this, but to actually run parts and okay, we ran into a little snag. Here's what's happening. Here's how we fix it. Yeah. And the job had three different types of edge banding. It had one millimeter
00:09:34
Speaker
you know, black PVC that was for three quarter material that had two millimeter white PVC. That was for three quarter material. It had two millimeter white PVC for inch and a half material. So we were running three different types of edge banding. Did you do what they call the tape at the bottom or the bottom? Oh yeah. So four, we actually did half mill white on the bottom edges of the cabinet sides. Yeah. Just, you know, to protect them from water and stuff.
00:10:06
Speaker
It was, and then we've done, and we've used it a couple of times on our own. Yeah, with good success. Yeah. The one thing we did realize is that we definitely need a bigger compressor.
00:10:20
Speaker
because that thing sucks air. And, uh, we actually like stalled the machine out a couple of times where it'll, it'll like, it'll shut the machine down. If it senses that there's not enough air, because a lot of the stuff is air actuated. Um,
00:10:41
Speaker
So we're, we're in the market. If anybody's got one or we're going to start a go fund me. Yeah. So we need a two stage, probably 80 gallon, 60. Maybe we get away with 60. I don't know. You know, we need like 15 CFM, probably bare bare minimum. Yeah. Ideally more, but cause we want to just be able to run stuff in there back to back to back.
00:11:10
Speaker
Yeah. Um, but it's a pretty impressive machine that one of the things that's cool is it's got like this, whatever the windows made out of Lexan or whatever you can see it operating. Yeah. You know, you can, you see the, the, the cutters and everything sliding up and down and moving and grooving in there. Yeah. Yeah. It's working great. I mean,
00:11:34
Speaker
that inch and a half edge banding with those nice radiuses on them. I mean, that came out really nice. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know, so we basically the sides, the sides of these cabinets were three quarter and the shelf fronts were inch and a half. So then when, when you ganged all four together, you would get your inch and a half back in the middle and clamping them together and screwing them. Like if you step back a couple of feet, it looks seamless. Yeah. Yeah. That's how, how precise the trimming and everything was.
00:12:06
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. It came out good. The clients, clients seem happy. We got taken to lunch. Oh yeah. Yeah. Brian took us out to lunch. We went to Jelani's on the street, little luncheonette. That was our first time there too. I thought it was good. Yeah. I'd go back. Yeah.
00:12:25
Speaker
Yeah. The bread was good. I think, uh, you left a fat tip on them because they were really, really. Yeah. Oh yeah. It seemed like it like y'all come back now. Tomorrow. But yeah, it was nice to, you know, just scroll down main street, a block two blocks. Yeah. It's the park. I guess it's that light. Yeah. Um,
00:12:55
Speaker
He hadn't had lunch. That was good. Josh was cool. He's got a kid on the way. Congratulations. Yeah. He was heading down to Newcastle, Delaware after. Yeah. Yeah. He's, I mean, I would have been so antsy if I had to go down to Delaware. He was just cool as a cucumber. Yeah. I'm sure it's a, it's a common situation where, you know, you're set up a machine.
00:13:19
Speaker
Man, you could probably hear the compressor when I'm talking. You're setting up a machine, you run into some kind of snag, and he probably works late like that all the time.
00:13:32
Speaker
Yeah. Cause he didn't know the thing with the compressor slowed us down quite a bit. Yeah. Because, you know, running like eight foot long, um, parts, you'd have to run one and then wait a wait, like whatever 30 seconds or something, and then run the next one. Um, and then after, after you sort of exhausted what was in the pig tank, you kind of had to like, let, let the compressor fill back up. Yeah. A couple of minutes. Yeah. So it definitely slowed us down.
00:14:05
Speaker
Yeah, maybe we'll still have to get to the bottom. Well, that leak over that little slow leak over by the, the forklift charger. We'll get to that. I think that's what's probably making the compressor run now, right? Yeah.
00:14:21
Speaker
Like just now you mean how it kicked on? Yeah, probably. Yeah, even if that thing was running perfect, that's still never gonna be enough. It's only 24 gallon and we got the 30 gallon. 30, 30 gallon, 35 gallon. Hey, we only got about 50 or 60 gallons and the motor on the thing is not big enough to fill it up fast, you know? It's only two horsepower. I gotta give that thing its props though, man.
00:14:48
Speaker
We've run that thing hard. They're like, let's give the compressor a break. I'm like, we don't give that thing a break when the- 1500 boxes it's done. Yeah. I mean, that thing has run 10 hours a day, basically running the entire time for two, three weeks. Yeah. Yeah. Actually probably more than a three or four weeks. Right. So we could be writing a, what you would call a glowing review.
00:15:17
Speaker
Yeah. Chicago pneumatic. Yeah. It'd be nice to have a little screw compressor, but just too expensive. Yeah. Maybe we will get lucky and find something used. Yeah.
Cabinet Assembly and Physical Strain
00:15:32
Speaker
They haven't had a lot of luck with used equipment though. Have we? No, no. They all look mighty crusty. All the used compressors. Yeah. People leave them outside. That's not our style really. No.
00:15:47
Speaker
You know, we get into something for about two grand. Yeah. Piece of cake. That includes, you know, uh, running the wires and all that shit. About 1500, 1800 for the compressor. Yeah. I wonder where Ed is on his bike today. Beautiful day. He's got to be out on the tiger. Yeah. You'd think he might be traveling. Yeah. Yeah.
00:16:17
Speaker
And so we edge banded everything, stayed late on Monday. Tuesday, we put everything together. Yep. And it went together pretty well. You had all kinds of templates made to the joinery. Yep.
00:16:37
Speaker
And so everything went together pretty well. Um, Wednesday we built everything and no Wednesday was yesterday or Tuesday. So we, we installed everything yesterday and put the tops in today. I'm all confused. I don't know what day it is. It feels like Friday. Yeah.
00:16:56
Speaker
Yeah, they were heavy to put together. You know, a lot of bending because basically we put them up on the centipede stand, put one side and then put all the horizontals into the side, attached them and then put it, brought it down onto like a little box that we built and then put the other side on. Man, this eyelid is freaking swollen. Yeah, don't touch it.
00:17:25
Speaker
and then put the back on. Yeah. And then once we kind of figured out how to move them around, it was a lot of that putting that first one. Yeah. That one wrecked me. That was heavy.
00:17:41
Speaker
lifting it up off the graph, carrying it into the van, like two cavemen. Yeah. We put this in van. Yeah. We realized we could just like tip it into the van and push it, push it in. Let's be a little smarter for the next six. Yeah.
00:17:58
Speaker
I'll never get that done. Yeah, the first one, I had to end on the corner on the ground and basically had to just bend down and like squat up. And so we get to the second one. I told Jeff, I said, I don't think I can do another one.
00:18:24
Speaker
You have to go on that end. Yeah. I woke up, I woke up that night in the middle of the night and like my whole back and shoulders were killing me. I'm like, man, I gotta take some Advil. Oh man.
Unimpressive Donut Shop and Conclusion
00:18:38
Speaker
Just, you know, screwing in all the screws from underneath is a lot of work. Oh yeah. Yeah. Definitely. I mean, people who've done that know just pushing up, pushing up. Yeah. Oh yeah. But, uh,
00:18:54
Speaker
You know, I didn't, I never did get one of those once bitten donuts. Yeah. Well, maybe next time. Yeah. There's this place right next to the window treats. How we doing on time?
00:19:07
Speaker
Uh, not bad. We should probably wrap it up though. Cause I'd like to get this uploaded before I go to. Yeah. So, uh, yeah. Once bit in one of those fancy donut places, you know, where you buy a $4 donut with lots of toppings. Yeah. You still can't beat like a good crispy cream. No, no.
00:19:25
Speaker
or something you know just like a good glaze donut doesn't have to be crispy that was the thing i mean i went in there i was gonna get i had full intentions of getting a donut but i got behind some guy on his cell phone who was gonna order a dozen he was like one of those kind of guys i don't really like and i yep yeah
00:19:42
Speaker
I said, let me get out of here. But the donuts themselves didn't impress me. You know, I think their whole thing was lots of goofy toppings. Yeah, I'm not into that. So I don't want captain crunch on my donut. Yeah. So I got out.
00:19:56
Speaker
And the thing about those fancy donut places, the donuts are so small. Yeah, they were small and they weren't impressive. I mean, I'm a pig, but I could eat like three, four donuts. I could equal that, I think.
00:20:17
Speaker
Well, before we get off on a tangent and better sign off, I'll get this uploaded before we got to head out to the old optometrist ophthalmologist. Yeah. I want to thank everybody for listening. Yeah. Have a great weekend and we'll let you know how our fishing trip turned out. Yeah. Tune in next week. All right. Ciao.
00:20:37
Speaker
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00:21:08
Speaker
Okay.