The Lone Machinists
by Jamie Peacock & Curt Van Filipowski (Feat. Jon Dillehay)
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Ep. 97: Loose Lug Nuts and the Wrong Material
Ep. 97: Loose Lug Nuts and the Wrong Material
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Curt and Jamie dive into business and manufacturing as one-man shops.
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- Ep. 97: Loose Lug Nuts and the Wrong Material · 1 h 12 min · Season 1 Episode 97This week on the Lone Machinist Podcast, Jamie discovers that trusting someone else to work on your vehicle is apparently a dangerous game. After a tyre shop manages to leave…
- Ep. 96: I Threaded a Hole That I Forgot to Drill · 1 h 15 min · Season 1 Episode 96This week on the Lone Machinist Podcast, Curt discovers that forgetting to enable tool-break detection can get very expensive, very quickly. A tiny PCB drill snaps during a…
- Ep. 95: Yak Shaving and Other Machining Disasters · 1 h 15 min · Season 1 Episode 95This week on the Lone Machinist Podcast, Jamie discovers exactly how much aluminium his LK can accommodate, unfortunately only after machining the first enormous plate and…
- Ep. 94: The Slowio Is for Sale… Maybe? · 1 h 17 min · Season 1 Episode 94This week on the Lone Machinist Podcast, Jamie has been listening to The E-Myth again and has come to a rather uncomfortable realization. He's apparently done everything wrong…
- Ep. 93: Tumbling Is Just Witchcraft With Extra Steps · 1 h 28 min · Season 1 Episode 93This week on the Lone Machinist Podcast, we're experimenting with workholding, tumbling media, and how to make manufacturing a little less painful. Curt's been testing different…
- Ep. 92: It's a Tool, Not a Project · 1 h 16 min · Season 1 Episode 92This week on the Lone Machinist Podcast, Curt discovers that despite operating machines, running a business, and apparently being a functioning adult, he still cannot reliably…
- Ep. 91: The Penpocalypse Is Coming · 58 min · Season 1 Episode 91This week on the Lone Machinist Podcast, we're back from IMTS and apparently nobody came home with fewer projects. Curt has managed to create a rather serious problem for…
- Day 4: I Don't Plan on Buying Pens for Two Years · 25 min · Season 2 Episode 3Jamie is officially running on fumes as the IMTS marathon continues, but there's still plenty of time for machines, workholding, questionable engineering ideas, and collecting an…
- Day 2: That Thing's Slow as Balls · 14 minDay two of IMTS, and Jamie is somehow fitting even more machines, people, questionable decisions, and engineering ideas into an already packed schedule. The day ends with…
- Day 1: How the Hell Do You Program This Thing? · 16 min · Season 2 Episode 1IMTS is officially underway, and Jamie has already discovered that three hours in the machine tool hall gets you through roughly one third of it. In this Monday recap, Jamie and…
- Ep. 90: The IMTS Pregame · 1 h 1 min · Season 1 Episode 90This week on the Lone Machinist Podcast, the machines are starting to outproduce the humans, which sounds great right up until you realize somebody still has to finish all those…
- Ep. 89: Everyone Wants a Willy · 1 h 4 min · Season 1 Episode 89This week's episode of the Lone Machinist is basically what happens when the machines start producing faster than the humans can keep up. Curt is drowning in production, running…
- Ep. 88: Scaling Without Losing Your Shit · 1 h 19 min · Season 1 Episode 88This week on the Lone Machinist, Curt finally fixes his titanium anodizing problems—and discovers that the secret was apparently replacing the Multi-Etch he'd been using for…
- Ep. 87: If You Want Me to Do It, Pay Me Properly · 1 h 19 min · Season 1 Episode 87This week on the Lone Machinist Podcast, Jamie has one hell of a week in the shop. A mold job turns into roughly 40 hours of machining in just three days, including a late-night…
- Ep. 86: Spindle Grippers and Questionable Decisions · 1 h 12 min · Season 1 Episode 86This week on the Lone Machinist Podcast, Jamie and Curt discover that zero-point workholding really is fucking magical. Jamie has reached the point where swapping between jobs…
- Ep. 85: Coolant, Calendars, and Counting Errors · 59 min · Season 1 Episode 85This week on the Lone Machinist Podcast, Jamie discovers an important new limitation in his manufacturing capabilities: This week we're also talking about the reality of running…
- Ep. 84: Birthday Cake and Broken Machines · 1 h 21 min · Season 1 Episode 85This week on the Lone Machinist Podcast, Jamie celebrates another trip around the sun the only way a machinist knows how—by spending it surrounded by machines, projects, and just…
- Ep. 83: Nimble Gripper Has Entered the Chat · 1 h 7 min · Season 1 Episode 83This week on the Lone Machinist Podcast, Jamie and Curt discover that making great machining videos is almost as difficult as making great parts. After another week of…
- Ep. 82: Reddit Is Mad Again · 1 h 15 min · Season 1 Episode 82This week on the Lone Machinist Podcast, Jamie and Curt dive into one of the less glamorous sides of making products: the internet. Between first-come, first-served launches…
- Ep. 81: Teaching Engineers to Talk with Al Whatmough · 1 h 29 min · Season 1 Episode 81This week on the Lone Machinist Podcast, Jamie and Curt are joined by Al Whatmough, whose career has taken him from apprentice machinist to educator, software leader, and one of…
