Parts Department

By Justin Brouillette & Jem Freeman

Justin Brouillette (Portland CNC) & Jem Freeman (Like Butter) discuss CNC machines, their product design and manufacturing businesses, and every kind of tool that they fancy.

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The podcast currently has 129 episodes available.

Parts Department episodes:

January 28, 2025126 - Llama shall have what it demands
Jem and Justin chat about robot training, viral videos, nesting software woes, and inspired dowel finishing methods. Features shop talk about CNC automation, Fusion 360 pains, and label printing solutions.
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DISCUSSED:
✍️ Comment or Suggest a Topic - New voice message option
New youtube upcoming, tour
UR Playtime UR Cobots and Robots
People are so scared of new ideas (dumb white men) ⠄
Millions more views, mostly hate comments
Millions all round.
Oligarch eyes, vendor lock-in ꘎
Jem's new muse
Nesting in Fusion
More scripts to fix Fusion's massive flaws
Label printing out of Airtable
Pool cue dipping rig success ꘎
Dust boot recommended by Multicam
New PDX Airport killeth
99pi PDX Carpet Episode
Configurator re-skins
Plain Jane HTML hosting within Shopify
Raycast.com - 10% off with link

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HOSTS
Jem Freeman
Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia
Like Butter | Instagram | More Links

Justin Brouillette
Portland, Oregon, USA
PDX CNC | Instagram | More Links
...more
43min
January 20, 2025125 - Inappropriate drill pressing
Jem and Justin discuss 3D printing technicalities, coding with AI agents as amateur software developers, barrel finishing of timber components, the value of long form video, Jem is reading profit first again, Notebook LM from Google, the fatigue of the hustle.
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DISCUSSED:
✍️ Comment or Suggest a Topic - New voice message option
BBL Ideal Printing steps, 0.04mm
Superb Yoda Model
Configurator circles
Cursor coding, AI code workflow
Dedicated Drilling
Barrel finishing
Long term value of long form video
Linus interview with Colin and Samir
Profit first, third time lucky
Notebook LM
Shopify API check out authentication
Hustle fatigue
IG popping orf
Retrospective journalling value

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HOSTS
Jem Freeman
Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia
Like Butter | Instagram | More Links
Justin Brouillette
Portland, Oregon, USA
PDX CNC | Instagram | More Links
...more
55min
January 14, 2025124 - Cat palace for kids
Jem and Justin return from holiday breaks and to discuss building cat palaces, AI scripts with Claude. They discuss shop improvements, Gridfinity strategy, and share thoughts on QR codes and self-centering drill jigs. Plus, thoughts on reading habits and notebook psychology.
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DISCUSSED:
✍️ Comment or Suggest a Topic - New voice message option
Jem's instas serie (shelves), spouse appreciation
Expensive weeks off! ꘎
Cat palace for kids ꘎
Hot Wheels ꘎
Preorder Fiasco - 8 hrs with Claude
Even more Cursor enthusiasm
Kitta Scam Product ꘎
Mercury banking
Scripts, scripts, scripts! – Nack fixes, Label Print on repeat
Nick Cave ꘎
Fresh eyes, new resolutions, bad habits ꘎
Notebook is a place - Verge 2:34:32 (Book) The Notebook - Roland Allen
Slow to make but rewarding ꘎
Where do your QR code labels go to? ⠄
Veritasium QR Code
Drill Jig for DB - awesome suggestions
Cheap Self-Centering Vise
Shirts we got
Op shop = Thrift Shop
Bluey Rabbit in space Sleepytime episode

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HOSTS
Jem Freeman
Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia
Like Butter | Instagram | More Links

Justin Brouillette
Portland, Oregon, USA
PDX CNC | Instagram | More Links
...more
54min
December 24, 2024123 - Christmas Special
An extra special/long episode for doing dishes as you collapse into the holiday season. Thanks for listening this year! Jem and Justin.
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DISCUSSED:
✍️ Comment or Suggest a Topic - New voice message option
Year Review - Justin
Biggest things or impacts
Profit First
Printed product expansion
Now have 4ct - X1
CNC tooling
Understated impact of new child

Year Review - Jem
Looking forward
Covid down time and reading profit first
Sense of ownership

Justin Mantra/Theme 2025
Flow
Following 2024 lesson, do the obvious thing
Simplify software stack
Double revenue
Outsource and delegate
Fiverr, Upwork
Virtual assistant?
AI Agents!?!
Robots, automation?
CS offloading - disconnect
Meditating

Jem Mantra/Theme 2025
OPEX creep
DIY Config Launch
Increase product % mix
Get back on the tools (not too much)
Default diary

Other
Eric Larson's - Within Tolerance 5⭐️'s
ChatGPT swings and roundabouts ꘎
Discovered second battery
JUSTIN - make video of offsets on YCM
Another power outage, options
Lean day upcoming
Gemini 2?
CNC Feeds & Speeds Calculator
Cursor.com

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HOSTS
Jem Freeman
Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia
Like Butter | Instagram | More Links

Justin Brouillette
Portland, Oregon, USA
PDX CNC | Instagram | More Links
...more
1h 17min
December 17, 2024122 - Blue Unicorns & Task List Trauma
Jem and Justin discuss Mac hardware trends in machining, share their perpetual task management struggles, and explore workshop innovations. A bike-fluencer emerges, they debate Shopify's AI assistant, and using smart lighting for production notifications.
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DISCUSSED:
Next: Year Wrap Episode - Send in here!
Your Themes / Plans for next year!
M4 Mac Mini
Fusion Benchmark
Japanese Wooden Satellite ⠄

Decommissioned satellites must re-enter the atmosphere to avoid becoming space debris. Conventional metal satellites create aluminium oxide particles during re-entry, but wooden ones would just burn up with less pollution, Doi said.
Something wrong with me, latest note taking saga
Negative or normal
Getting Things Done
Day Plan - Nack
Best AI Tool Ever - I grow weary, and her time is perilously short 🤣
First brand deal - Tern Orox
Parenting is hard AF sometimes ꘎
3D Print tip - slice by object ⠄
GPT-o1 tries to escape ⠄

When the model was led to believe it would be "shut down" while working toward its goals in these tests, it quietly attempted to deactivate the oversight mechanism 5% of the time, OpenAI said. At one point after the AI found documentation saying it would be replaced by a new model, it tried to abandon ship by copying its data to a new server entirely. To avoid being deleted, some AI models would even pretend to be later versions of their models to trick their developers, what I assume is the equivalent of slapping on a fake moustache and saying "he went that-a-way."
Shopify Sidekick ⠄
PS2 modular milling machine

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HOSTS
Jem Freeman
Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia
Like Butter | Instagram | More Links

Justin Brouillette
Portland, Oregon, USA
PDX CNC | Instagram | More Links
...more
48min
December 10, 2024121 - Filament Fantasies
Jem and Justin chat about their appreciation for 3D printing, highlighting a mostly printed filament spool winder. The conversation touches on community-driven platforms like Maker World, the complexities of print settings, and the evolving landscape of 3D printing. They also explore topics like branding, AI tools, and the cultural appreciation of imperfection in Japan.
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DISCUSSED:
✍️ Comment or Suggest a Topic - New voice message option
Final dash in summer
Downgraded IG
Japan imperfect ❤️
Seconds listed ⠄
Flux Ultra
Flux Generated images of Cobot CNC routers
Can someone make an AI Mesh to Solid Body converter? I'll donate.
Amazing free creations
Justin's list of amazing free prints
Bambu X1E
GPT is fired, Claude
Branding PYNOS
Printed linear ways
Turn off read receipts on Instagram!
2025 Nack Calendars are a Go!

JOIN THE BOOK CLUB
Books we've discussed
Book Club? Company of One - better not bigger

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HOSTS
Jem Freeman
Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia
Like Butter | Instagram | More Links

Justin Brouillette
Portland, Oregon, USA
PDX CNC | Instagram | More Links
...more
54min
December 03, 2024120 - Low effort flow
Jem and Justin get back to Book Club with Simon Winchester's "The Perfectionists," discovering how sewing machines became precision's foundation. Between busy shipping weeks and spring production, they test shop automation with Roombas and CNC cobot sanders. Specially recommended countersink gauges, and organizing local deliveries. They find new entertainment in Suno v4, tackle email marketing via Flodesk, and share of Bryan's Shop Stool Podcast.
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DISCUSSED:
✍️ Send Comments on Episode
JOIN THE BOOK CLUB
Books we've discussed
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
Using a sewing machine as the first grinder for gauge blocks is mind blowing
Guns guns guns
Stuff the British Stole
Pulley Block Machine

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RouteXL
Sawdust Bureau - Table mission
Bryan's podcast - The Shop Stool Podcast
Dirty but effective weekend sales
Huge swing to Nth Melbourne
18 order shipped in a week ꘎
Bit of Airtable love - delivery view and planning
10 thousand springs by Friday
Lazy bot frustrations
System prompt design agent
Suno v4
Countersink gauge from Eric Clear Irons
Hot lap season ꘎
I wanna get serious about robots ꘎
CNC sanding heads
Toolstoday CNC Sanding Attachment
Shop Roomba Video
Flodesk email marketing

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HOSTS
Jem Freeman
Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia
Like Butter | Instagram | More Links

Justin Brouillette
Portland, Oregon, USA
PDX CNC | Instagram | More Links
...more
56min
November 26, 2024119 - Conical Chamfering
Jem and Justin celebrate the launch of ThreadBoard! They script a new chat box and let an AI agent control their workspace computer. Claude tries using the configurator, and they find Qwen2.5 Coder 32B is way less lazy than GPT-4o. They tackle measuring and QC’ing ThreadBoard chamfers, possibly with a conical chamfer probe. There’s a follow-up on the Jet HVBS, Patrick from Douglas Fir Design asks about AI voice chat models, Vertical Calendars are in jeopardy, PDX CNC announces an End of Year Upgrade Sale, and they chat about laser engraving.
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DISCUSSED:
✍️ Send Comments on Episode
ThreadBoard is live!
New chat box scripted!
Keeping score.
Workspace computer controlled by AI agent
Claude tries to use the configurator
Qwen2.5 Coder 32B way less lazy than GPT4o
How to measure and QC ThreadBoard chamfers!?
conical chamfer probe?
Jet HVBS Follow-up ⠄
Patrick (Douglas Fir Design) asks about other AI voice chat models? - Haven't tried but seems promising - Nomi.ai
Vertical Calendars in jeopardy
PDX CNC End of Year Upgrade Sale
Laser engraving - xTool F1

JOIN THE BOOK CLUB
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
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HOSTS
Jem Freeman
Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia
Like Butter | Instagram | More Links

Justin Brouillette
Portland, Oregon, USA
PDX CNC | Instagram | More Links
...more
43min
November 18, 2024118 - Heavy Couch Work
Jem and Justin cover a lot in this episode! Justin’s been working on Zapier SMS magic for show notes, while Jem dives into pricing blocks for the upcoming ThreadBoard launch. They also chat about using Easy CSV Editor and dynamic HTML configurators. Will Justin fire as Jem tunes out the BOM, and they discuss after-hours work and gift-giving—with Justin making custom gift boxes for a special carbide gift. They wrap up by comparing web chat vs. text chat, exploring custom pop-ups, and finishing their thoughts on Extreme Ownership.
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DISCUSSED:
✍️ Send Comments on Episode
Justin made Zapier SMS magic for show notes
CSV - What use this junk for!? Easy CSV Editor
ThreadBoard Launch Product launch accountability ThreadBoard ꘎
Making pricing blocks in Rhino for ThreadBoard and more products
Is Nack back?
Making HTML configurators - dynamic wall size
I love Cody for VS Code
Will Justin fire me!?!?!? Jem has stopped listening to the BOM
How much after hours work do you do? ꘎
Giftgiving - Justin making gift boxes for that special carbide gift
Podium SMS
Web chat vs text chat - direct contact experiment
Custom pop up for chat box
Labels, CSV, data merging with Dymo app - PDX CNC Video
Debrief field ꘎
Product revision tracking
Finishing up: Extreme Ownership
Leading up the chain

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HOSTS
Jem Freeman
Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia
Like Butter | Instagram | More Links
Justin Brouillette
Portland, Oregon, USA
PDX CNC | Instagram | More Links
...more
59min
November 12, 2024117 - No time for tracking
Jem and Justin explore custom configurator development, shop equipment decisions, and tool inspection methods. They answer a bunch of listener questions, discuss transitioning from premium software to DIY solutions, debate the value of time-tracking systems, and share insights on KPI tracking for small manufacturing businesses. Side conversations cover Google Voice limitations and the merits of microscopes for tool inspection.
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DISCUSSED:
✍️ Send Comments on Episode
KPIs
DXF for Laser Fusion Plugin
Opendesk
Cody
KittaParts config $$$
Comment to DM - KP?
Hammock-ing
Jet 712 👎
Kicked off PS2
Blackhole issue, not an issue 😒
Debriefing Projects
Get a Microscope

Questions
jktableco - Separate phone line for the business? Whole phone or just an app to add it to your phone.
jktableco - Hiring help or professionals, CPA, marketing, website, etc.
debrisbrooms - What is Justin going to buy to one up Jem’s fryer? Any other non-trad tools in the shops?
marc_demontigny - How much looking back at how long things actually took to CAM or cut do you do, and if you do, how do you do it?
marc_demontigny - You incorporate that into future projects?
CNCcut.Melbourne - Any tips to check if a used tool is sharp or blunt? Do you track tool usage in any way? - Lee

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HOSTS
Jem Freeman
Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia
Like Butter | Instagram | More Links

Justin Brouillette
Portland, Oregon, USA
PDX CNC | Instagram | More Links
...more
53min

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