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Week 34 - Paton Machines
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This week Kieran was involved in a tragic accident with the Easter Bunny and is recovering from his injuries. However I managed to get Kenny from Paton Machines to take his place for this week. Kenny is a super creative guy, building crazy vehicles from what most would consider scrap. Join us this week for a slightly different episode.
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https://www.youtube.com/@patonmachines
https://www.instagram.com/patonmachines/?hl=en
https://www.facebook.com/patonmachines
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Transcript
Introduction to the Garage Avenger Podcast
00:00:01
Speaker
This is the Garage Avenger podcast.
00:00:10
Speaker
Hello and welcome to the Garage Avenger Podcast.
Justin's Mission and Kieran's Absence
00:00:13
Speaker
I'm Justin, trying to share the joy of building my death machines in my garage in a hope of one day trying to make living out of it.
00:00:21
Speaker
And unfortunately, Kieran cannot be with us this week as he's picked a fight with the Easter Bunny and has lost miserably. he was winning at one point, but then he mentioned something about the Australian Easter Bilby being superior.
00:00:37
Speaker
And then that enraged the Easter Bunny and he ripped Kieran's throat out. So my best wishes go to Kieran and his speedy
Guest Introduction: Kenny from Peyton Machines
00:00:45
Speaker
recovery. However, I am not alone.
00:00:48
Speaker
Today, I'm joined by Kenny from Peyton Machines. Yeah, Peyton, Patton. Yeah. Thanks for having me here. I got it wrong. but i think 50% of the world gets it wrong.
00:01:04
Speaker
Well, maybe that's my my problem because i've been I've been living over here for too long. I'd probably say it the other way too. Yeah, New Zealanders get it wrong too. Do they? And Australians, of course.
00:01:16
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, of course they do. Buggers. Yeah. How's it going? Welcome to the show. Yeah, good, good. This is the first guest, really, for this show.
00:01:28
Speaker
um We had Pierre, the Swedish maker, on, but his internet was so crap, we ended up just talking over the top of him. Yeah. So he didn't really get a chance to talk at all.
00:01:42
Speaker
But this is a bit different. Kieran's not going to come in here and and ruin the party. So, you know, it's just you and me. Yeah, sounds good.
Kenny's Background and New Zealand Move
00:01:50
Speaker
I thought I'd just give you the opportunity to introduce yourself and tell people who you are and what you do.
00:01:56
Speaker
Yeah, sure. So I'm Kenny. I've got the, yeah well, the social media identity, I guess, of pattern machines. And I do pretty much what you do, i think, by the looks of it. um Just come up with weird ideas and they've never been done or, you know, somehow do them different um and just have fun in the garage, you know, which is what I'm you know i aiming to do.
00:02:21
Speaker
Obviously you've got a Kiwi accent, so you're, whereabouts in New Zealand are you? ah Top of the South Island. So I've just moved back to Nelson. So my content has been lacking a bit lately because I've been moving.
00:02:35
Speaker
um But yeah, top of the South Island in New Zealand. So we're heading into winter now. um Well, you guys are heating in the summer, I guess. Yeah, yeah. it's ah It's kind of nice, actually.
00:02:46
Speaker
because yeah There's something weird about winter projects. I don't really see them doing very well here. so unfortunately, like at least I think in general, summer projects, you know, cars, motorbikes, you know, things that, you know, can roll around on pretty much all year round if you're not living in stupid Norway.
00:03:10
Speaker
ah you know do a lot better for at least on the content creation side of things. um But I mean, yeah. What do you what are you think?
Seasonal Project Challenges
00:03:21
Speaker
Are you going to do Winter Project?
00:03:24
Speaker
Oh, I don't know. I mean, that sort of surprised me because America's in winter as well. So you think you'd just be one of them, you know, that sort of winter time for projects, but maybe it's saturated. Well, saturated a bit of loose word, but, you know, people aren't looking for winter projects in summer, I guess.
00:03:42
Speaker
um So, yeah, maybe coming into winter, maybe I will look at doing some winter ones just to stand out from the rest of northern hemisphere, guys. Yeah, maybe. I mean, or you could just keep them quiet until the the winter in the Northern Hemisphere happens and you've got like three banger videos ready to go.
00:04:02
Speaker
Oh, I don't have the coordination for that. Oh, the coordination. I don't have the organization for that. Neither do I. Neither do I, dude. I'm screwed. I was going ask you, that was one of my questions was, how do you keep organized doing more than one build at a time?
Managing Multiple Projects
00:04:18
Speaker
I saw your latest video and you said, there's one build, hang on, under that sheet is another Yeah. Yeah, that' that's the debauchery. I don't understand what I'm doing.
00:04:32
Speaker
Some days I'm like, I got the parts for that. Now I need to work on that. and then I don't normally do that, by the way. i normally like just drive a project finished. and then yeah but these like Especially the World Rally Car is such a big project. Yeah.
00:04:48
Speaker
Yeah. And unfortunately, I'm waiting for poor old Thomas, who's going to help me 3D print it. He's just so snowed under and he hasn't been able to start for me. And it's like, it sucks because I really want to get to that.
00:05:02
Speaker
done and i had a plan yeah to take it to finland to rally finland and like be able to and i don't know i didn't know what i was going to do with it there but like display it there or maybe i could get one of the drivers to sit in it or yeah or stand next to it or something and i don't know but yeah i don't think that's happening unfortunately because uh you know the time but yeah the times is sliding dude it's Yeah, yeah yeah know I know exactly what you mean because um that's sort of been my life for the last couple
Deadline Motivation
00:05:31
Speaker
of years. I've had those two big projects just yeah on the go.
00:05:36
Speaker
um I work on, get to a point where I kind of get stuck and then go, ah, that's enough of that. Go and work on something else. and the The other one's are collecting dust and it's a whole game of motivation that you're sort of playing with yourself. And then, you know, something, usually an event will come up and give me you know, give me inspiration to get it done.
00:05:54
Speaker
Isn't that interesting? Because like when you get boxed into a corner, you generally like just pull your thumb out and just get it done. But when you don't have constraints and deadlines, like it just sort of like, yeah, I'll just do it.
00:06:11
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you know I'll get around to it.
00:06:16
Speaker
yeahp is it Is that partially an eighty eight ADHD thing with like a hyperfocus and dopamine and stuff? Look, I don't know. I reckon I got some sort of undiagnosed part of that. Like I'll work through the so a whole day without eating right through to midnight.
00:06:31
Speaker
And then like, um but, you know, and then some days it's just like, oh, the dopamine's not there. I won't want to do it. Yeah, I don't know. I think it goes. i think I talk a lot about the flow, you know, the the creative flow.
00:06:47
Speaker
Like, and when you're in it, you're in it, dude. Like, it's just like, you don't want to get out of it. It's just like, everything's clicking. You're like, oh, I can't believe it. I thought this was such a problem before. Like everything's just going bang, bang, bang, bang. bang And lining up. You're like, oh now I've just got to weld this bit and tack this there. And like, oh, I didn't see that before. Yep, right. I'll just adjust this and tap this and screw there. And like, all of a sudden, you the thing's nearly finished. And you're like what? How did this happen? Yeah. And then you actually look at the clock and you've been doing it for like 12 hours and haven't even looked up.
00:07:22
Speaker
Yeah. Then you say, how did I only get so little done in 12 um Story of my life. It's like i' I've literally like welded three things in 12 hours.
00:07:39
Speaker
We'll just put that down to an experience. Well, I'd like to think so, but I actually honestly think we're pretty hard on ourselves with regards to like, cause I, I mean, I put out a little story on Instagram yesterday yeah about yeah like the fact that, you know, I'm doing this, like I've never built a motorbike before.
00:08:00
Speaker
I've never, I'm the first person I know that's building a motorbike from a hand truck, from a moving dolly. Right. Like, It hasn't been done before. There's no procedure you could follow. you know exactly where you're coming from.
00:08:17
Speaker
Yeah, i I really think that is, you need to take that into account when you're creating things. It's like, it takes double as long when you don't know what you're doing and you're just blindly fighting your way through the creative process.
00:08:32
Speaker
And then on top, if you're making a video, like Oh, yeah. It just chomps time, dude. like I reckon if I had a videographer and an editor, I'd be able to pump out two videos a month.
00:08:47
Speaker
its But everything else just takes so much time, dude. Instead, I'm putting out one video every two months.
Penny-Farthing Motorbike Project
00:08:55
Speaker
Yeah. No, I know exactly where you're coming from. Well, it's like me building the penny-farthing motorbike, track the motorbike thing.
00:09:02
Speaker
It didn't come with a blueprint. You kind of, you get stuck design wise and then how things work. And yeah, it's, yeah, it's, I wouldn't take it's a nightmare, but sometimes you just don't feel like putting in that mental brain power.
00:09:18
Speaker
Let's talk about some of your projects, dude.
00:09:22
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they've They've got a certain style to them, I would say. What would you call your style? Um, oh, it's probably close. The best way to describe it is kind of like scrap heap challenge that junkyard was.
00:09:35
Speaker
Hmm. And that's that, but that was born out of necessity because that's sort of the pile that I had to work with. And now I'm getting sick of, I'm getting sick of grinding rust and paint off bits so I can weld them together.
00:09:50
Speaker
So do you think you'll start building things from like good raw materials or do you think you're kind of locked in? Yeah, no, no. I've slowly started not mentioning certain things like just to try and wean myself off using rubbishy um materials.
00:10:07
Speaker
But I do have a couple of things in mind that do, um I think that'll warrant using brand new stuff and it's, you know, going to make it worthwhile. but I mean, that's looking at where Grindhard now is, that Grindhard plumbing.
00:10:19
Speaker
yeah that's exactly same path they took they started off with just scrappy stuff with old um old tools and stuff like that and now everything's brand new um you know big machines and big workshop and stuff it's an interesting story to watch how like how they've developed you know their their video style like sometimes i get bored of it you know but there's enough people watching and their video format's quite long you know like on average their video is like 50 minutes you know and yeah And so I really see there's an avenue for long-form content out there like they're doing that that does work.
00:10:59
Speaker
ye Yeah. Well, that's that's kind of where I ended up going to longer videos as well, but more of that real um in real time kind of stuff. but Pretty much because i I'm not a filmmaker or editor, so I'm just like, what's the least roadblock that I can put here so I actually get videos out? Yeah.
00:11:19
Speaker
um But yeah, it's there is an audience for it as well. you know like Just watch me build stuff. you know And it's it's what you've done too, You've sort of changed your style.
00:11:29
Speaker
I've changed a lot, but I still got story in there. like So if you think about like the last video I did, which was the snowmobile video, you know it was story all the way through it realistically.
00:11:41
Speaker
i yeah led up to the fact that I was going to take it somewhere ah led in that I was always, you know, ah that I had problems. And you even actually even in the testing, like that video didn't quite in reality play out like I edited it.
00:12:02
Speaker
but I just changed things around to make sure it was good like for storytelling. So I think from my side of things, like it's very important to tell a story. yeah ah But I would say that Grind Hard has a different style ah that works for them. you know I just don't want to do do that specifically, the same style.
00:12:25
Speaker
and Mainly because i I lose concentration watching my own videos if I was to do that style. So well why why would I put the torture through anyone else to watch it? But yeah your videos are like pretty genuine and it's a bit of like step-by-step often.
00:12:43
Speaker
as Yeah. you know like this is This is how I'm problem solving this issue. oh I ran into this problem. Okay, now what am I going to do? um Yeah. But let's talk about your penny-farthing motorcycle.
00:12:57
Speaker
It looks the most unstable thing I've ever seen in my life. Yeah, I think it is. ah Can you actually ride it yeah Yeah, i I have faith still.
00:13:12
Speaker
I've taken it out for one test ride. um It took like two years to build and I've done one test ride on it. um Fell over but twice and just managed to miss my league without getting it caught under it.
00:13:23
Speaker
cool um I think I just ah just gave it a peer pressure there. So many people are telling me just to stop stop teasing and just go and ride it. Grindhard would have ridden theirs by now. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:13:36
Speaker
But yeah, so it's um it's got a big tractor wheel at the front and just a little tractor style, like a four by four wheel at the back.
00:13:48
Speaker
yeah The old style of the penny farthing bicycles. Mm-hmm. And it's powered by an eight horsepower Kohler engine out of the US. So it's a 60-year-old engine powering this thing.
00:14:02
Speaker
And I've done a foot clutch, ah hand lever control with a steering wheel ah for throttle. um And these piddly little training wheels that have turned out are only functional as parking wheels don't really help you. Yeah.
00:14:22
Speaker
Because it looked like just ah you're up so high. Compared to like what you would normally sit, I guess, on a normal bike, right? And the balance of that big wheel, it must be insane.
00:14:37
Speaker
it's It's not too – look, I think it looks worse than what it is. Yeah. You're not actually sitting that high. When you look at – I think the the seat is only like this – well, I can't show that. about The seat comes up to about like – mid chest or something so you're not sitting that much higher than if you were standing beside it yeah um but it's 180 kilograms so it's a fair bit weight in it 180 you just need to get more horsepower on that thing and then it'll probably go better because you know it turns the wheels fast you get this centrifugal motion in the front tire and then you got the balance better right
00:15:19
Speaker
I did manage to ride it. So you've seen a kid learning to ride a bike and they're going in the in a so straight direction, but they're wobbling left and right yeah while they're heading in one direction. It was exactly like that. i was correcting myself, but then um transmission, that the drivetrain started slipping, lost power, and when a bike doesn't move, it falls over. Right, exactly. It was basically lack of engineering skills that...
00:15:48
Speaker
that's holding it up at the moment, but I've definitely got faith, a bit more speed and she'll be right. Well, let's talk about your lack of engineering skills. Where did this all come from? None.
00:15:59
Speaker
Where did this all come from, dude? What got you into making weird contraptions in your shed? Oh, I've always had silly ideas, um but um i I've just been too busy working to actually to justify spending time on them.
00:16:16
Speaker
And then I never had ah reason to do it. um But yeah, now it's kind of like i've I'm forcing myself to build them, forcing myself to film it so I can try and get YouTube and Facebook and all that to pay me to work in my shed and create these stupid ideas.
00:16:35
Speaker
I feel exactly the same. like i i don't know what drives me realistically besides the just the joy of creating something. you know like Right now um my bench, I've got this you a fat chopper bike you know down there and I just finished welding the frame and I took it down off the bench and sat on it.
00:16:55
Speaker
was so cool like it was like i was like yeah this is fat this is cool but no one sees that no one sees that like even in the videos it's hard to like translate how you really feel about this project like developing and like this dumb idea you had like about turning a hand truck into a chopper motorbike you know it's like
Artistic Use of Scrap Materials
00:17:20
Speaker
When you you get that feeling of like, oh, that wasn't even just like the simple stuff. Oh, that was a nice weld. You know? Like that was nice. Because I'm shit. Especially because when you're welding crap materials together too, right?
00:17:37
Speaker
you You don't end up welding very nice. I think, no, I know. but but But I think the trick is, like me, if you never work with new new materials, you don't know what you're missing out on.
00:17:49
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah, that's true. Because and now i've I've bought some stuff, you know, and like even like on the World Rally car, I did some proper like tube notching and stuff, you know.
00:18:02
Speaker
yeah And, all you know, like, okay, I didn't have the tool. I had to do it all by hand with the grinder. But like when it fit nice and then I actually saw the nice weld,
00:18:15
Speaker
um what's I was like, all before yeah know i was like god this is good. Let's go. so i mean, that that is that excitement that you have in your shed when you're alone often.
00:18:29
Speaker
alone often yeah Yeah, but it's interesting when you talk about like story storytelling and stuff, like in my videos, that's I suppose the part as well that I need to capture is taking it off the bench, sitting on it and go, man, this is so cool, you know, and try and capture that feeling a bit more than what I'm doing, you know, rather than just documenting, you're kind of trying to bring, you know, portray that data across to the camera kind of thing.
00:18:57
Speaker
Yeah, but it it just takes practice. And you like it's just like your projects, right? They evolve, so do your videos. Yeah. So, you know, I found myself, like, making sure I capture things. So, like, for example, this engine that I got for the chopper motorbike, it was free. i But I didn't know if it was work it would work, right?
00:19:16
Speaker
It's like the guy that I got it from said it would work or said it used to work. And I was like, okay. ah You know, the everything was free. So, like, I'll just take it and just see what happens.
00:19:27
Speaker
And I put a carburetor on it and then I just kicked it and it started, you know, and it was the best feeling. so but then But then there was a point where I was like, yes, and I was like straddling it and like revving it and just making these like weird gestures. And I just felt like, okay, I have to document that. So I actually stopped, set up the camera, and filmed exactly what I just did hey yeah to to document it, right? So it's like it's a little bit – that's a sucky thing about YouTube. like
00:20:04
Speaker
if you don't have a cameraman and you're alone, sometimes you have to set up fake shots, even though they're kind of real, you know? Yeah. yeah I guess that's the difference um between a filmmaker – ah there There was this one analogy, not an analogy, but um it's a feeling I get from, I i did the thing yeah like he was a He knew how to make videos and he's like, right, what am I going to make videos about? Oh, I'll make stuff in my garage.
00:20:33
Speaker
Whereas, you know, that's sort of, that's my interpretation of how that came about his whole channel. Yeah, maybe. He's a legend. at I don't know. Yeah, definitely.
00:20:44
Speaker
yeah um How is me? i'm I'm sort of come to the other angle. I want to make things. I'm like, oh, I suppose it'd be to film this and put it on YouTube. And I've got to figure out the other end. um However, wherever i was going with that. But yeah, that's that. Yeah, I just that's one thing. And I've always sort of figured as well. i I'm sort of working backwards.
00:21:05
Speaker
Well, I mean, ah Alex from I Do The Thing, he he just did a recent project where he made like a pulse jet. I had no idea a pulse jet was so easy to make. um i like him I'm thinking I'm going to make a pulse jet soon. because Oh, okay. if If he can make a pulse jet, I can make a pulse jet.
00:21:27
Speaker
I'm seeing his world. He's getting a grinder for Christmas. Yeah, exactly.
00:21:33
Speaker
So, i like, I'm even thinking, like, the the sled that I built for this, like, ah this rundown now Holman column, which is, like, a big slope. I'm thinking maybe I should put a pulse jet on that and try and try, like, get a speed record on the flat or something on the snow.
00:21:54
Speaker
so Yeah. Yeah. but I don't know how powerful they are, but I mean, powerful enough to get you moving at least. so um mean i guess it depends on the size. Yeah, just make it bigger. Bigger, more fuel.
00:22:09
Speaker
Let's go.
00:22:12
Speaker
Oh, jeez. Yeah. Madness. Dude, I want to talk about the pigeon because this is this is a big project to you started and it's done really well for
The 'Pigeon' Project Transformation
00:22:23
Speaker
you, dude. It's it's fantastic.
00:22:25
Speaker
Yeah, it's found it's little niche, eh? little niche audience. Yeah. Yeah, so I, oh, years ago, probably 10 years ago, I downloaded the game BeamNG Drive. So it's a realistic crash, I guess you could say crash simulator car simulator game.
00:22:43
Speaker
And there was this one um little yute or truck, what do you want to call it? A mini truck, I guess. Yeah. Yeah. And it's loosely based off the Reliant Robin. So Mr. Bean's kind of... Arch nemesis.
00:23:02
Speaker
Arch nemesis, yeah, the little three-wheeler. they've actually built one of those in the game, made it square, boxy little truck. And I thought, that's cool. I can build one of those.
00:23:13
Speaker
And I came across a three-wheel moped. um little 50cc thing and I i reckon now reckon that'll work and we can probably make it road legal in New Zealand because the there's no sort of certifying for moped modifications I'm yet to test that out but that's sort of I wish it was so lax here I hope my theory's right
00:23:38
Speaker
um but yes I just built it out oil drums And I, I was quite careful to, um, to do everything as best I could, like I was trying to follow the rules.
00:23:49
Speaker
So it was, so i i won't say it's obvious, but I was trying to make it obvious that I'd actually tried. Um, and then like that's, I haven't got finished yet.
00:24:03
Speaker
It's still ongoing process that one. Um, But yeah, it's um it's definitely found its audience. It's a very niche audience there. um But i got I haven't got finished yet because there was a lot of little finishing touches and I got sidetracked.
00:24:19
Speaker
um But then and once a monster truck event came up and and I was invited to take invited to take some of my stuff there. i thought, that pigeon would be cool, but the wheels are too small.
00:24:31
Speaker
So I found these... ah oversized wheels and made it into three-wheel monster truck. And it took me two years to make the original and 10 days to repower it and put big wheels on it.
00:24:47
Speaker
But doesn't that go back to, again, like the setting the deadline, right? You're like, I'm going to make this into a monster truck. Like I've only got this amount of time. Let's go. Yeah. Yeah, and my plan was to test it first, but it just so happened that the only test I did was drive it onto the trailer before taking it to the event in front of thousands of people.
00:25:09
Speaker
So I was doing laps in front of, ah was the only monster truck not to break down that night. ah Really? Yeah, all the other three all had issues. Oh, that's hilarious. i You didn't like try to crush any cars though, did you?
00:25:24
Speaker
i I did want to, but I was checking out the ramp and a three-wheeler like that's probably not the best idea to go rolling over cars. It's probably going to fall over, let's be honest. yeah Yeah, I think so.
00:25:38
Speaker
um But yeah what was it yeah, what was interesting with that was um what came about right from the start was I was getting um this YouTuber was getting tagged in all my videos, ah Maria. He's in um ah Italy.
00:25:53
Speaker
but Okay. And every single video was, you know, Maria needs to see this and paint a baby blue because that's kind of his color and stuff like that. And I had no idea who he was. um And that just kept going on for the last light year or two or whatever it's been.
00:26:08
Speaker
And um yeah, he finally, when I did my test drive, he got in touch and he goes, were you serious about letting me drive it? I'm yeah, yeah, come over. So he flew over from Italy. He was planning on being here for like three or four days just to drive it pretty much.
00:26:22
Speaker
And like shot a couple of cool videos and yeah. Yeah, i saw the videos. It was so good. Yeah. Yeah. so that was good. such So much fun, Just sharing what you build with others.
00:26:34
Speaker
Yeah, I think that's a a lot of it, right? So, you know, even like the biggest takeaway I got from a lot of the projects. So like I used to do a bunch of different stuff and then I sort of started to slowly niche into like vehicles.
00:26:49
Speaker
And the first vehicle I kind of really did was this like jet-powered sled, like with these EDF turbines. know. And I basically like just asked a bunch of people. So I didn't know too much about like programming and stuff like that.
00:27:09
Speaker
And so I have done a bit of it, but like sometimes I just need help. So I went to my like local makerspace. and got to know the the nerds there. And they're so good, dude. They helped me out so much. And they were so excited for the project. So I kind of like decided to invite them to the shoot that I was going to do on the ice rink, right?
Sharing Completed Projects
00:27:31
Speaker
yeah And it just like it came across like when they were all out there just riding on it and enjoying it. i was like, oh, this this is what this is about. You know, you design something, you build something, and then you share it with people.
00:27:45
Speaker
And like that's a really good feeling. yeah Yeah. And yeah and yeah like you're not precious about it. you like If you break it, I can fix it. I'm not quite the same.
00:27:59
Speaker
I'm not quite like that. Maybe when you build something out of junk. Yeah, that's a bit different. Because I tell you, my friend Frederick came over ah and he was looking at my motorbike yeah that I'm building and he's like,
00:28:15
Speaker
we need to jump this. And I was like, right away, I'm like, no, we are not jumping this. Like, what if you break it? And like, I'll just, it'll come, like, because I don't have, I don't think I have the energy to fix it, if you know what mean. Because like, i love building it I love building it. But when I've finished the project, I've finished the project. I don't care about it nearly, but I don't want it destroyed. I So, like, I'm happy for it to exist, but I don't want to sit there and like, fix it all the time after some dickhead just decided to jump it on a motocross jump or something. Oh, yeah. Well, that's interesting, actually. If if you had a build that but you got to a stage where it's working for camera, but there's still things to finish on it, you know, to that this could be improved slightly. Is there any room...
00:29:07
Speaker
um Like, do you have any desire to do stuff like that? Or is it just like, once it's done, it's done? I can't finish it till it's done. Like that, what you see in the videos is where I'm satisfied with the project. Yeah, yeah.
00:29:23
Speaker
right Because like i don't yeah if I'm not happy with it, I won't post it. but i won't share it. I'm like, it's not finished yet. This is not how I want it to look. So like that's the small details. like For example, on the hand truck go-kart, it's like I wanted to have these taillights.
00:29:41
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you know I wanted to have these headlights. I wanted this certain style to have it finished. I couldn't i don't believe I would have shown you that video unless I had all those small details in place.
00:29:54
Speaker
Even though it took me forever, like wiring up those things and like, you know, putting in switches and like making X, like welding extra brackets on to hold the switch panel and all that sort of stuff, right?
00:30:08
Speaker
It's a lot of work, but I didn't want it to be delivered as a YouTube video. It it pisses me off, dude.
00:30:20
Speaker
When you see someone's mad project, but then all of a sudden they do close-ups of it, And you can see the paint jobs, fucking shit. And then you gets see you can see all the bad like workmanship that they could have done better, but they decided, it's good enough, it's a free YouTube video. That annoys me. Yeah, that is true.
00:30:40
Speaker
So I don't do it. I think that's why like Grind Hard, because you've got a bit of a contradiction often. right You've got Ethan, who's like always meticulous with everything he does. Yeah.
00:30:53
Speaker
And then you got the other guys that generally just hack and shit together. right so yeah But then Ethan's always coming back and saying like, that's shit. You need to do that again. You know, like that's not going to hold up.
00:31:06
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And I think that's yeah that's me. Like god I'm like, eh. Like for right now my my motorbike frame, I see it's like strong. I was jumping up and down on it. I see it.
00:31:17
Speaker
But I was like, if I take a big hit on the tail end, this part's going to collapse. It's going to bend. So I do need to put a support in here, even though right now it doesn't feel like it.
00:31:28
Speaker
Because I know yeah i know that the back end needs to be a bit more sturdy. And I kind of like that. That's how I think. Yeah. Actually, that was one thing that Ethan was talking about with this um the trike with his building, the big trike and tire.
00:31:44
Speaker
And he said right from the start, he was wanting to build monowheel. mono wheel yeah um But he said, ah I want something that's definitely going to work.
00:31:56
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Otherwise, he's sort of looking at the end going, it has to actually perform. And you know the monowheel thing, yeah, it's it's physics going against you.
00:32:08
Speaker
I mean, really interesting concept, but i'm I'm not really into it, weirdly. Like the the monster chopper they built, really into it. Loved it.
00:32:21
Speaker
And I couldn't wait to see what they were doing next. Even the small details. that's I think that's what I really like about Ethan and his work. but Yeah. again Yeah, to have hexagons. i like I'm pretty sure I need to now buy myself an Ark Droid because i just yeah i just want I just want to cut hexagons out of stuff. but so i might i might just Maybe triangles or something.
00:32:47
Speaker
But they're so expensive. Yeah, know. They're crazy, like $12,000. Yeah, so your whole goal now is to get sponsored by Ark Droid so they can send you one.
00:32:58
Speaker
Yeah. but let's Let's talk about like money. you know Because like my projects cost a lot, actually.
00:33:09
Speaker
like go In the scheme of things, they probably don't. But for for me and my budget, that yeah they're taking a huge chunk of money. What about your stuff? your like I've seen in your workshop from your videos and stuff, there's like giant shelves of stuff. yeah And you're using a lot of junk and stuff. But like does does it add up?
00:33:32
Speaker
does your wife ah Does your wife just go like, what are you doing, Kenny? How much of money you spend on this piece of shit?
00:33:42
Speaker
No, most of that stuff was like free or like five bucks here or there or like, you know, engines. um And that's, I think, a lesson on collecting stuff before you need it for a project.
00:33:54
Speaker
Right. So I've been doing that for like the last decade at least. I've always had him in my mind, oh oh, this thing, oh, that make that thing, you know, be cool project. All right, Chuck, and you know, i had room to store stuff.
00:34:05
Speaker
Yeah. um Now I've got ah shed and two containers full of stuff because we had to leave our big property. Yeah.
00:34:14
Speaker
But um yeah, it's ah it's just you know slowly over time. is There's been like farmer clear outs their property and stuff. like Oh yeah, there's some stuff there you can grab. yeah um But yeah, it's because I had the space for it. It's not something I can continue doing now.
00:34:32
Speaker
um I've got to start using some of the stuff. yeah I feel like a little bit the same. I've got a little shed next to my garage, which I have bunch of stuff. In fact, I've got cross cart with a Yamaha R6 engine in it.
00:34:43
Speaker
i was like, I don't know what going to do with this project. This project is probably going to kill me. ah yeah so and yeah yeah i haven't decided what to do with it, but I can't i can't sell it Like and I know at some point I'll be like, oh, you idiot. Why did you sell that? Yeah.
00:35:01
Speaker
Like that's exactly that's the project that you're going to do now. so Yeah. If you've got room to store stuff, you'll never regret that. No. I mean – always regret – You can't complain about having a Yamaha R6 engine just lying around for a project. No, you can't. Talking about collecting things before you need it, I bought a 120 horsepower outboard thought, wow, this would make a cool drag pigeon. and Chuck it on the back, 120 horsepower on the back. i like I'm two-stroke.
00:35:34
Speaker
hey Yeah, sitting on the floor in the shed at the moment, taking space.
00:35:40
Speaker
oh Anyway, but yeah. What about failures, dude? Like you're building some weird and wacky stuff. I do that too. i constantly experience failure.
00:35:52
Speaker
What about you? How do you, do you experience some failures and then how do you deal with them, dude? Oh, geez. um Yeah, that's why I think my bigger project takes so long to build is it it's many failures along the way. And I'm like, stuff it. so If there's no deadline, I say stuff it. I'm going to go work on something else. And its that's one thing Jimmy Durester said was let my brain work on it in the background.
00:36:17
Speaker
And that's actually helped a lot to try and overcome some of those issues. I mean, nothing's complete failure, but... um Like penny farming, um not staying upright. That's just a temporary setback.
00:36:31
Speaker
Yeah. It just depends what mood I'm in and what the deadline is, like whether you deal with it right now or I'm more of a person like, ah, that shiny thing over there looks more interesting. I'll go work on that for a bit.
00:36:42
Speaker
Yeah, like i I'm a little bit the same, except I make a very dedicated like choice to leave the garage and like walk away from the project.
00:36:55
Speaker
I'll say, okay, i'm I'm not working this out. I'm just banging my head against the the wall right now. Just go lock up the garage, closes to switch off the lights, you know and go in and and make dinner.
00:37:07
Speaker
for the family or something like that. Just, just walk away, go take your dog for a walk or something like this, you know? So, ah I feel like that is kind of the right way to do it. Cause often you end up spinning around just going, Oh, how do I fix this? How do I fix this? How do I fix this?
00:37:23
Speaker
And then that you get those moments in the shower, like why in the shower? I don't know, but it's like, ah, I can't believe I didn't think about that. Of course I should just fix it like that. Oh, you idiot.
00:37:36
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. And that's that's the beauty of having a deadline is that it forces you to problem solve rather than just kick it down the road. yeah Dude, I've got some really big ideas for projects coming.
00:37:51
Speaker
whats what's What's some of your big ideas?
Future Rotary Engine Projects
00:37:54
Speaker
Oh, yeah. um and promise I promise won't steal them. no and i Yeah, so there is one that... um I've got a couple I've been sitting on and they're um related around the Saks Wankel rotary engine.
00:38:14
Speaker
Oh, I'm so glad you mentioned that right now. ah Let's go.
00:38:20
Speaker
So, yeah, so I've got ah some previously um hoarded engines no that I've been collecting.
00:38:32
Speaker
um yeah I've got one from a lawnmower. That's a 110cc Wankel rotary engine. That's amazing. I think it puts out about three about three horsepower. Yeah, this is the MK3 or something, right? Yeah, KM3, yep.
00:38:47
Speaker
KM3, yeah. So when I say rotary vehicle, what make am I talking about? Mazda. Yeah, okay. So now in the early 90s, Mazda brought out...
00:39:02
Speaker
uh, the, the master engineers had a challenge to rethink personal transportation or something. And they got together and they built a suitcase cart. So you fold this thing out and it's got, you know, fold, fold the suitcase out. It's got the motor, of the wheels, everything in there.
00:39:18
Speaker
So I'm thinking it needs a rotary engine on it. That's cool. So that's really cool. And sort of make it in that kind of style too.
00:39:30
Speaker
I love it. As a, And whether I'm going to do a Zach Ripka or a Tribute, we'll see where it sort of goes. But I think that's one that deserves having fresh materials on.
00:39:41
Speaker
Yeah, I like it. you You know what I'm thinking? I'm actually thinking too, rotary. Yeah. Dude, I'm going to build, I think, if this project with the World Rally card goes well, I think I'm going to build an RX-7 FD.
00:39:57
Speaker
f d I'm thinking about building an RX-7 half scale. Yeah. With my cane 48 rectory. Yeah, well, i I don't want to, that's too small for me, dude.
00:40:11
Speaker
Yeah. You're going to get a full, yeah? dude, I've been researching. and ah found this guy in the Netherlands, I think i think it was the Netherlands. ah He makes rotaries for drones.
00:40:23
Speaker
Yeah. drones And there's a rotary engine with 40 horsepower. It would be similar to the kart ones, I suppose.
00:40:35
Speaker
I assume so, but it's like all that I haven't seen one with 40 horsepower. Or one of the other ones, those backpack kite things. What you call them? Paraglider?
00:40:46
Speaker
Yeah. Motor? Yeah. Do they have wankle engines on them? Yep. Yeah, there's some of them too. Yeah. That's interesting. They're probably getting up there in horsepower, I'm guessing too, but yeah.
00:40:58
Speaker
Well, that's good to know. You're obviously, you're obviously with your with your bulk, you're not doing half scale. Well, yeah. I mean, i well, actually, i think you'd be surprised because like the FD is quite long.
00:41:12
Speaker
Which one's the that's the new the then then That's the newer The sexy looking one. Yeah, yeah that's the sexy one. Everyone loves those.
00:41:24
Speaker
Like um Mighty Car Mods. just Yeah, like mid-90s. Yeah. I think it was like, nine and no, it was late 90s actually, the FD. Pretty sure. Yeah, okay. Yeah. yeah Super sexy car.
00:41:37
Speaker
So, yeah, I'm kind of thinking similar idea to what the, doing 3D print, the the body, um Because I'm long, i just have I basically have to create a cart where I'm kind of lying down, like which is yeah what I'm kind of doing in this World Rally car too. Like I sit quite like back.
00:41:57
Speaker
I have like from the from the center of the wheels to the roof, I have 58 centimeters so in the World Rally car.
00:42:09
Speaker
Which is half scale of RX even. That's about there as well. Yeah. yeah So, yeah. We're... Fill it off. Fill it off, man. Wouldn't that be fun? Wouldn't that be fun?
00:42:24
Speaker
Yeah, you can bring it over here and we'll race. Oh, dude, wouldn't that be, man? I need to up my engine, though. Yeah, get rid of that. Get rid of that Saks 48. Yeah.
00:42:36
Speaker
yeah I was actually looking at, like a like, could I just get one of the A-series engines out of, like, the first, ah you know, first rotaries. Yeah. But I was looking at prices, like, holy shit. Yeah, no.
00:42:54
Speaker
They're not cheap. And like that's a used, abused one. Like, if you want one rebuilt, you're like, ah Okay, here, just take my wallet. but so are you thinking Are you thinking front engine in between your feet?
00:43:09
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, okay. Exactly this is is exactly the same. Dang, we think so alike. This is so good. ah Exactly. I'm like, what's your next project? I'm like, this Haskell RX-7 I've been sitting on for ages. got the engine for it.
00:43:23
Speaker
You're one step ahead of me. You've at least got an engine. I'm just i'm just dreaming. hey I didn't say the engine is practical for you know practical for it. I've got to run it through a motorbike gearbox and everything.
00:43:34
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. But yeah i mean i don't know I don't know if that's what I'll have to do as well. like i might have to use, depending on like how how you can run it off the drive-thru,
00:43:46
Speaker
train like yeah maybe you have to do can you know like um grindhard did the put the end when they put the kdm engine in the front of their like mini mini car or mini camaros and stuff like that they ran like a double chain system down to the rear wheels from the front it was quite ingenious actually really cool so that and you the chains the chains ran sort of along the side of you So with guards, of course, on them, but yeah yeah it's, it's, know, that's an option too. Like if you've got a sort of motorbike engine,
00:44:24
Speaker
and style yeah style, yeah. but no trans Motorbike transmission. Yeah. Cause you can run a force, you just whip the, whip the cylinder off, block it off and use the bottom end, the four stroke.
00:44:38
Speaker
So, that that is my cool project that I'm dreaming of, but I don't know if that's going to happen. I have to finish other projects first. And I have to get some freaking money because i god I don't have any money to buy anything for that project.
00:44:56
Speaker
You just had to have been hoarding for the last 10 years. little bit of the squirreling away. Well, that's why you're up on me, dude. So...
00:45:06
Speaker
Oh, I think you've just given me motivation. Given me motivation to get underway on this car then. Yeah, beat me to it. Yeah, it's my idea first. Yeah, exactly. Exactly the same time, I think.
00:45:23
Speaker
uh... ah What do you think drives you to create stuff? Like what what is it behind everything that you think, okay I just love this? why Like if you go back to your past, is there something you can like look at in your childhood, in your school years that you like you just really liked creating things and tinkering with stuff? or Interesting, yeah. i ive I have thought about this lately too that um I always used to pull things apart.
00:45:55
Speaker
um and I think I may, this is back when I was younger, I pull everything apart, and I think it may have been, say I'm going to try and fix a but in reality, I was just trying to figure out how it worked, and I barely fixed anything, but it was more just curiosity of how things work, machinery, and all that sort of stuff, um and I reckon that's, once you understand a whole lot different systems of how they work like that, you go, well, hang on, that might work with that, and you try and find ways, I don't know, ways to put it into use.
00:46:28
Speaker
All the stupid ideas. That's a really common answer, actually, for a lot of us. It's like that everyone seemed to like pull things apart. I feel like the outcast in this, because I was not that kid.
00:46:42
Speaker
I was not the one that pulled things apart and to just to check things out. like i ah probably wasn't really interested in anything until probably like 13 14.
00:46:55
Speaker
And I had ah had a school teacher who just really inspired me, I think. And then I think my fascination is not necessarily with engineering stuff, although that's kind of where I'm at but it's also to do with like shape and form, like being able to like sculpt something from a block of wood or from a piece of steel or whatever and like have it look like it looks in your brain.
00:47:24
Speaker
And I think that, like, I get, like, a dopamine hit from that, I think. Yeah. So I think that's what I picked up when I was, like, a teenager at school through this teacher because he, like, he always just pushed me.
00:47:37
Speaker
Like, he always, like, never gave me top marks, even though my work was way superior to everybody else's. Like, I knew it and he knew it, but he never gave me top marks ever because he knew that, like, if he just kept on pushing me, I'd do more.
00:47:52
Speaker
yeah And I think that was interesting. I think, and then, know, I joined the military and and, you know, was in that world for way too long. And then when I sort of came out of that, like after eight years, I realized like, oh I need to get back to my roots of what I really love to do. And that's building stuff, you know, that took me a long time to get it back into it.
00:48:14
Speaker
Long time. So. Yeah. Just trying to to do something creative and, and you know, get that satisfaction too, eh? Of creating stuff. Yeah. Dude, it's been so nice talking with you.
00:48:28
Speaker
um but's We normally have like ah segments where we talk about what's you know blowing your mind and and what's giving you the shits and and some recommendations.
00:48:40
Speaker
But I don't know if i really want to go into the do this
YouTube Consistency and Audience Building
00:48:45
Speaker
episode. I kind of want to keep it a little bit clean. But... ah what about recommendations? Have you got anything to recommend for the listeners?
00:48:54
Speaker
Yeah. So it's funny because in, I guess in our world, um, the channels that we sort of follow in the, the engineering and vehicle spaces like grind hard and stuff.
00:49:04
Speaker
And like, one thing I was thinking about was like the artistic nature of Ethan and how he gets his builds together, even if it's not, you know, the exact form that he's building. But that was one thing that kind of struck me was his, his desire to get all the artistically looking right.
00:49:24
Speaker
Um, yeah but that, well, that wasn't actually what I want to talk about, um, as a, as not a shout out, but, uh, um, uh, something of interest was, um, ah Will, who used to work for Grindhard and he was there, he's sort of the kid that was there and he's left. yeah yeah and He started up his own channel. It was um that Bum Motorsports.
00:49:44
Speaker
and i've actuallyly I've been keeping an eye on him and chatting to him as well. and um He's just about completed a whole year without missing one week of upload. Really?
00:49:56
Speaker
that consistent? Wow. Yeah, and every single week it's something new. um And someone had mentioned in his comments, asked him a question like, you know, youre going to go and finish that thing? And he says, no right now I'm focusing on building my audience.
00:50:12
Speaker
And so he's sort of like, every single week he's like, what's the best video that I can make for this week for right now? And like he's catching on with trends and all that. And don't know, it's just so good to see like,
00:50:25
Speaker
the consistency that he's got to stick with it. And like, he's like Arsla, he's not the greatest builder in the world, but he's got silly ideas. What are you trying to say, Kenny? What are you trying to say? We make ourselves look good. I've been known to blur the camera purposely.
00:50:45
Speaker
its But, you know, he's he's got different ideas, doesn't care about what people think about it, because ah if this works, it works. If it doesn't, it doesn't. But, But to to upload a video every single, I think it was Sunday night or something like that, and not miss a single week for a whole year, you know that's something that's it's quite inspiring to see. don't know how he does it.
00:51:10
Speaker
Honestly, that's since insane. Every week. And like some of these projects are complicated. There's not like like that is a a lot of like simple projects, but like a lot of them are...
00:51:23
Speaker
got a lot of engineering into them yeah a lot of engineering and some of them are just like hey i'll you know hold the welder over in this direction we'll stick those two bits of metal together but it's it's as well is he's focusing on it more from an artistic standpoint rather than engineering so it it's the focus isn't on the build quality you know it's on this idea that he had and let's go do something with it um which is sort of where i try and lean a wee bit to Just so the Instagram welders don't get on my back. and Damn those Instagram welders.
00:52:04
Speaker
I think it's like leaning into just just the thrill of building something, right? and Rather than like the prettiness. I find that difficult. I find like I want to see the vision of my idea like come into reality yeah and i have fairly high standards of what that vision looks like um and along with the video production too, right?
00:52:30
Speaker
yeah Yeah, definitely. You've got a high standard, yeah. Saying that though, jet like is that the recipe for success? Probably not, let's be honest, because you know ah Will's doing quite well on their channel, you know and that they seem to be pumping out videos and doing yeah like at least getting sponsorships. That's more than what I got. so Yeah, me too.
00:52:54
Speaker
um't even I haven't even dabbled in that yet. ah I think it's a slippery slope because you know like it becomes more about trying to make a living rather than like enjoying the project. And yeah I'm privileged at the moment that basically you know we we don't have a big mortgage. We don't have all these high overheads. I choose not to i choose to drive a really shit car like because know that I'm saving money you know by it doing that And it allows me to do exactly what we're doing right now.
00:53:27
Speaker
like ah yeah you know I could be working my day job right now and being miserable, but right now I'm talking to you on a podcast that I decided i was going to
Financial Freedom and Family Support
00:53:37
Speaker
create. right it's yeah There's something freeing about that.
00:53:40
Speaker
so There's a real freedom in that. Yeah, that's i mean that's exactly the same position that that um we've kind of worked towards as well, is buying ourselves that freedom. I mean, it's not extravagance, but it's freedom.
00:53:54
Speaker
yeah um it took and it did take a lot of work to get here um and just just stumbled upon facebook that tends to pay for videos at the moment so that's helped out a lot as well like let's just quickly touch on that i guess like my we have talked many times on this podcast about how supportive my wife is in what i'm doing how about yours yeah exactly the same too yeah yeah i um ah we've We've always been back and forth with working. Like, um sometimes I'll be flat out, sometimes she'd be flat out. So we've always had periods of of um ups and downs like that um through the years. But um I think just got to a realisation that, you know, we were able to risk a wee bit and just go for it, you know.
00:54:47
Speaker
um i was i was working long hours, getting pretty tired and not really having... any mental capacity to do anything else around work yeah um and then we just go you know that we started putting videos up and facebook started paying a little bit um for the short form stuff which is kind of a blessing and a curse in a way because it then took focus um you know away from sort of youtube and longer form stuff which i really sort of want to get into um but that sort of allowed us to to be where we are now um
00:55:20
Speaker
with, you know, just more options and a little bit of freedom.
00:55:24
Speaker
I think, uh, having a plan with your partner and having them be on your side is absolute blessing. I don't think I could do anything. If I, if my wife was opposite and she's like, what are you doing in that silly garage?
00:55:41
Speaker
Like, gen way like I, I couldn't do what I do. It wouldn't work. Right. Uh, you know, like I, I was explaining last week to Kieran, like,
00:55:54
Speaker
You know, just simply she she comes in with a cup of coffee and Anzac cookie, you know, and, and you know, just she just freshly made and says like, here you go Like, you're doing great. Wow, look at this. You know, like she's excited. Yeah, just supportive, yeah.
00:56:08
Speaker
It just means so much. caps it keeps you keeps you going even though you're doubting yourself constantly because that's the truth. Like yeah like I've been up and down this month because of all the bad stuff that's been happening with these projects.
00:56:24
Speaker
You know, like why am I even doing this? like Yeah. But speaking it's it's interesting yeah how they can, you know, they have faith. You know, we've got faith in ourselves most of the time. Yeah. Yeah.
00:56:36
Speaker
But for them to have faith in us is, you know, that that's something good is going to come of us, you know, and it's the right thing to do.
00:56:46
Speaker
I think something will come of it. Like there's no doubt in my mind, but it's just when. and and you It's like that being patient, right? Like, oh, God, is it happening yet? Like, ah like I'm just sick and tired of being poor.
00:56:59
Speaker
yeah you get You get small wins along the way. Yeah. Yeah, like, hey, sorry, kids, we can't buy the nice cheese today. Dad spent all the money on his stupid project.
Balancing Family and Project Obsession
00:57:12
Speaker
a Cross cut.
00:57:13
Speaker
exactly
00:57:17
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Yeah, but it's, it's been good because, um, my wife's been, she's running is wanting to get involved as well with certain things. So, um, she's managing the more than managing the Facebook stuff as well now to sort of, that's cool. Relieve, you know, in, in finding little short clips. So,
00:57:34
Speaker
um We go out, we've done quite a few events where we can just like drive around and get footage and stuff. And she'll go and put them on Facebook and, and try and figure out what the algorithms doing and stuff like that. So she's, she's finding that quite interesting.
00:57:48
Speaker
And it does help when you're working as a team like that too. And yeah My wife doesn't do any of that. She's like, you got that shit. Like, I'll just look after the house and family. Like, that you know, you just do your Which is more than enough. Yeah.
00:58:02
Speaker
Yeah. i I really think it is. Like, i sometimes I look at what she does for this household and I think, wow, you're like a superwoman. Like I'm thinking about dumb shit like freaking go-kart breaks. And like that's all I'm thinking about for like a whole week. And then she's like, oh, we've got this event on we're going take the kids here. We're going to do this and we're going to have a dinner with the family. We're going to do this. I'm like, I've got to do the washing. Like, yeah, and there I'm going, breaks. How am I going solve this break problem? Yeah.
00:58:37
Speaker
yeah Did you ever figure that break problem out? ah Yeah, I do know what the problem is. Now it's just a matter of money. Oh, okay. So the master cylinder, the master cylinder is like, so a lot of dirt and shit's gotten into it.
00:58:52
Speaker
and skis And it's, yeah, it's basically worn away where the lip seal sits. And then the, yeah, there's a small part where it just doesn't seal enough.
00:59:03
Speaker
It seals sometimes, but then when you like stab the brakes, you know, they get the pressure into it. It'll just slip a little bit of air in, you know? ah so And it was so it's such a little amount of air. like you You don't see the fluid leaking until you've been bleeding the brakes for like six hours.
00:59:21
Speaker
So you're like, well what the fuck? So, yeah. it's You can't really hone the... Oh, you don't have a lathe? No. ah du I do.
00:59:34
Speaker
My lathe was... um yeah Originally, it was a treadle lathe. Okay. like From 1910, I think. Really? Yeah, it's like 115-year-old lathe.
00:59:48
Speaker
Wow. Yeah, and it still does lathe-type things. It doesn't do machining, it does turning. Yeah, yeah. It does machine-type, lathe-type activities.
01:00:02
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I think that's of definitely like an investment I know I have to make at some point. I have to make investments in to into more metal fabricating tools because that seems to be definitely where I'm going.
01:00:14
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So, you know, at some point. But, you know, again, comes down to money. So fingers crossed some project just launches and then I can start developing things.
01:00:26
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on that front we'll just see yeah did one where can people find you if they want to check you out yep so i'm on all the different platforms um pattern machines and yeah mainly i'm eating mainly main mainly going for longer form on youtube and then just the short clips everywhere else pretty much yeah um but yeah it all leads back to the same place Do you have a do you have a patron or anything like this? You want give people? and aren't
01:01:00
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Not at this stage. um I think may have the YouTube membership up and running. um But yeah, it's great. you we be I will be looking at time. Yeah, doing more in the future and getting that all um organized a bit better.
01:01:12
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Yeah. yeah Well, I want to give a shout out to my patrons. ah You guys are all awesome. All of you. ah My heroes, though. ah Thomas Buckner, Mark Foster, Janis Klemz, Ulus Kittren, Arthur Midgard, the Swedish maker, Mark Jones, and Stein, Sir Hus, and to my sidekicks. Those guys are freaking amazing. Sylvester, Arne, and Thomas. You guys, mad dogs, along with all...
01:01:42
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my other patrons who contribute as little as $1 a month. ah Everything helps. yeah I need all the money I could get to fix these breaks.
01:01:56
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But hopefully you guys will keep on the ride with me until I somehow, inverted commas, make it. So... um if du if Kenny, if you don't have a patron, I i highly suggest you start one, just even if just just to get people to know that you exist you know and and that they like can support you because you're doing some cool stuff and ah really enjoy watching your your videos and watching your projects and you're seeing what's going on and I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with next. It's RX7. Let's go, baby. It's on. It's on.
01:02:37
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Oh, perfect. No, I can't wait. Yeah, no, it's been good seeing you um build all your stuff as well and come, don't know, just find little ideas and and make it into a bike or a car or a trike or a quad or, yeah.
01:02:51
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it's been It's been good to see all you know what you can do out of different materials. Yeah, thanks, dude. Well, I appreciate you guys all listening. Thank you so much. We will hopefully see you after Easter with our regular programming with Kieran back, maybe.
01:03:09
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Maybe you don't want him back. man Maybe everyone's like, we want Kenny.
01:03:16
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Stuff that Kieran guy. he's never in the He's never in the garage anyway. he's just Consuming too much of his own product.
01:03:25
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ah But we wish him the speedy recovery from his injuries from the Easter Bunny. So, yeah. hard Thanks for listening, guys. Bye.