Parts Department

By Justin Brouillette & Jem FreemanBusiness Entrepreneurship Technology Leisure Hobbies

Parts Department episodes

December 06, 202234 - Note Taking Nirvana
The guys talk get into note-taking, Zettelkasten, Obsidian. Normal stuff too like Fusion 360, 3D Printing and CNC's.
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World Cup
Fusion 360 Apocalyptic Prepping - Project Archiver
Benchmarking Fusion 360
Journaling Experience
Zettelkasten.de / Obsidian.md
Prusa Layer Shifts are Back ☹️
Just Make Parts
FB Ad Success

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

Justin Brouillette
Portland, Oregon, USA
PDX CNC | Instagram | More Links
44 min
November 29, 202233 - Juvenile Designer Syndrome
Dealing with Bad Vendors, Presented Awards, Stellar Hiring Ideas, and Secret Menu Face Mills
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ATC Pedestals
Black Friday Sales? - All Birds increased prices for BF (donations)
Three people out on Tuesday - Jem in his happy place
LB Awards
Bad Vendor Experience - 16 weeks late
Providing Files?
Hiring Tidbit - Within Tolerance 167 - Jamie Underwood - What's something you fucked up and how did it affect other people?
Emotional amnesia theory vs just being in the moment
Journaling / Justin's version - BTWS - Be Thankful, Write or Sketch
Printer Ink | Face Mill Inserts $411 ASX FM ($776 list)

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

Justin Brouillette
Portland, Oregon, USA
PDX CNC | Instagram | More Links
45 min
November 22, 202232 - Justin's Special Bucket
The ATC Pedestals Launch which sends Justin into Shopify Variant Hell. The guys talk cameras and videos, and if products can be reviewed like employees?
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ATC Pedestal Launch Imminent 🚀 Video, Product
Shopify Variant Hell
Full = 320 vs Simple = 80 variations
Simple Bundles Plugin

Loving the Sony A7iii
Justin's Camera Monitor
Something you never thought you could delegate
Product Reviews like Employee Reviews?

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

Justin Brouillette
Portland, Oregon, USA
PDX CNC | Instagram | More Links
38 min
November 16, 202231 - Good Weather & Paychecks
Big November Start for Like Butter, New Shop Nav, New Aluminum CNC Routing, & Help Needed.
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Nov kicks off
New Shop Nav Worked for LB?
CRO bash
Aluminum Routing - Customer Reaction
Lead times ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Short staffed
LB Hiring 👈

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Jem Freeman
Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia
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Justin Brouillette
Portland, Oregon, USA
PDX CNC | Instagram | More Links
31 min
November 08, 202230 - Practicing Kinetic Energy Recovery
YCM Update, Fusion update, multiple breakdowns, chip management, Brother Speedio.
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Mill update!?
Fusion 360 Posts are Updated - Safe Start is now safe
Jem breaks down - last week I said I'm pretty useless and it's great - this sunk in hard later that day
DaVinci Resolve - shiny object syndrome
Brother Speedio Kinetic Energy Recovery (KERS) details
YCM Needs Chip Management
Leaning the Shop
Prusa MK3S+ not broken just 🥵
Patreon - Other levels

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

Justin Brouillette
Portland, Oregon, USA
PDX CNC | Instagram | More Links
37 min
November 01, 202229 - YCM Crash from a Fusion 360 Bug
Fusion 360 causes a massive YCM crash. New – Support the Show on Patreon to get the Secret Show & more.
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Patreon Launch!
Think of it like paying for business therapy. This is way cheaper.
Tiers for what you're comfortable with
Support the show, help us hire an editor.
$10 or Higher gets you a Secret Show episode

YCM Mill Crash from Fusion 360 Bug (Safe Start misnomer)
Affected Fusion 360 Posts: Fanuc, Matsuura, Syil Syntec, Syntec, Ethereal Halo
PSA - Check your Posts Regularly
Stacked Marketer
Descript Love

All Marketers are Liars - the title of which is a lie.
Waste Expo
Blown Deadlines
Packaging/Shipping included in COGS
LB's Costing / Pricing with Airpower to Shopify 🤤

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

Justin Brouillette
Portland, Oregon, USA
PDX CNC | Instagram | More Links
46 min
October 25, 202228 - Plunging My Face Mill
Jem & Justin lament how to kill products, in-housing packaging, a giant tool, PDX CNC's free cost calculator, and who really wears the trousers?
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Laser Chat
Making your own packaging
Giant Tool holder
Killing a Product - RIP
Cost Calculator
Letting go of the reins?
Who wears the trousers?
Big announcement next week 👀

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Jem Freeman
Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia
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Justin Brouillette
Portland, Oregon, USA
PDX CNC | Instagram | More Links
38 min
October 18, 202227 - Swiss Lathe of Wood
Have we sacrificed enough for the algorithm Gods? Sell, Why sell? No, upsell. Plus willful ignorance.
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Video Traffic Lottery
Mill Pallet Made - Finally
Poka-yoke (ポカヨケ, [poka joke]) is a Japanese term that means "mistake-proofing" or "inadvertent error prevention".
Anniversary Pencil Sharpener
Jaunt Motors
Upsell / Cross Marketing Apps Assortion (Free); Frequently Bought Together (Paid)
Bored of selling. So fickle.
Boss Life: Surviving My Own Small Business
Nack Makers Market Recap
What are you willfully ignoring?

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Jem Freeman
Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia
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Justin Brouillette
Portland, Oregon, USA
PDX CNC | Instagram | More Links
44 min
October 11, 202226 - Building a Shack in the Woods
Jem contemplates a shack in the woods, September product launch review, and goals for October.
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A shack in the woods
Arrested Development Surrogate
Hot Laps Season
Tana.inc

Product launch Sep?
LB: ⭕️
PDX CNC: ✅ Duct Tower

Marketing Goals - More Videos
PDX CNC Tool Holders
Beyond Delegation
Adding Fixturing to CNC Router

Goals for October
ThreadBoard
ATC Pedestals

Hashtag
#ycmcnc
#babypantscnc
#kittaparts

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Jem Freeman
Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia
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Justin Brouillette
Portland, Oregon, USA
PDX CNC | Instagram | More Links
41 min
October 04, 202225 - Failure to Delegate
Are Jem and Justin failing to delegate? PDX CNC Duct Towers and a new Shopify store launches. Both feel gratitude for the podcast and you all.
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Podcast studio/office WIP
Duct Towers 🦆 & New PDX CNC Shopify
Best Day of Sales Yet - PDXCNC
Descript makes editing Video/Audio/Podcast Easy

App Talk
Sleeping on Shopify Automations 😳
Freshhhhhh Desk desires

5hp - servos - BBQ carbide
Are we Failing to Delegate?
Evolving Products Fast - Mentality? Rip off bandaid of change

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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
48 min

About Parts Department

From the publisher's feed

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.