Parts Department

By Justin Brouillette & Jem FreemanBusiness Entrepreneurship Technology Leisure Hobbies

Parts Department episodes

June 16183 - Hoarding unfinished projects
Justin makes himself a 5-axis trophy and a quick YouTube shop tour and tests his Gimbel CoolantClear. Jem survives a short production week down a person, rants about builder POs and spirals into late-night Rhino scripting with Cursor. Plus bot orders, prototype hoarding, and the emotional weight of unfinished projects. Also, sea shanties.
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Dispatch is a mess, need a LEAN makeover, how much do I own other people's jobs, fuck it I'll just do it myself, max capacity yet still no money left, brain overwhelm and other stories. ꘎
Rhino script intervention needed... ꘎
Fast Shop Tour - PDX CNC
ALL 5 AXIS video
FU: CAD models available
We are not agreeing to your PO terms
Roderick on the Line Ep 628

All hoarding is emotional... But the real weight on me is the hoarding of my own unfinished projects
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Jem Freeman
Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia
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Justin Brouillette
Portland, Oregon, USA
PDX CNC | Instagram | More Links
47 min
June 09182 - Droppin' drawers & doors
Justin migrates from Squarespace to Shopify (finally!), accidentally nukes his navigation menus with AI, and drops $1,200 on used Lista cabinets. Jem wraps up 10 months of robot programming, ships his first four-shelf new robot sanding programs.
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Migrated the Blog!
Lost my menus
Big Ass CNC
CRO
Skills skills skills ꘎
Caveman
AirShop Updates
Door
BT40 Tool Tag Tower
Autodesk visit - MCP

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Jem Freeman
Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia
Like Butter | Instagram | More Links
Justin Brouillette
Portland, Oregon, USA
PDX CNC | Instagram | More Links
49 min
May 26181 - Please vibe responsibly ft. Justin Gray
Justin Gray joins Jem and Justin to talk vibe coding, from NASA open source to CNC tool library nightmares. They riff on AI security traps, why machinists need GitHub, and the chaos of managing 400 tool holders. Plus toddler nostril emergencies and why pie charts are almost never okay.
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Justin Gray of Justin Gray Labs - formerly of Toolpath
Justin's Vibe Kit - https://justingraylabs.com/store/vibe-coding/
@JustinGrayLabs
NASA project - OpenMDAO.org
Tell us about your shop, machines, and plans?
Tool libraries
https://latenightcommits.com

Vibe coding
Vibe coding is the next abstraction (assembly to programming langauge now to AI coding)
How do you feel about it? Does it have a bad taste?
Supply chain attack
Liberated
Let your Fusion posts - auto-update?

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Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia
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Justin Brouillette
Portland, Oregon, USA
PDX CNC | Instagram | More Links
1 hr 11 min
May 19180 - 50% up, scattered AF
Justin just crushed a record sale. Jem is actively avoiding his books. Together they navigate code benders, steel headaches, and the beautiful disaster of trying to keep a shop running.
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Addicted to tokens, Jonny too
Never bookkeeping again
Claude Code first impressions
Brain fog, how to leave breadcrumbs
Big Ass Sale progress? No donkeys this year? Photo flat lay excellence
Poka-yoke frustrations
Dispatch is a hell hole - missed the show
Google Home Mini - 3 more plz
terminal.shop – https://www.terminal.shop
Justin Gray - upcoming
How to make tabbed parts look good?

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Jem Freeman
Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia
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Justin Brouillette
Portland, Oregon, USA
PDX CNC | Instagram | More Links
1 hr 4 min
May 05179 - Bill me later, daddy
Justin caught a facing issue on fresh UMC pallets before they could ruin parts, while his Shopboard reel blew up on Instagram. Jem survived a surprise WorkSafe inspection and a brutal $8k robot service bill. The guys talk selling out of ATC Pedestals, $5 McMaster parts versus Haas tax, custom ERP dashboards, and a new quest for decent video editing help. Home Assistant just works.
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Shopboard goes off, AirShop integrated
$5 skimmer belts on McMaster from Langerman Machine #9452K451
Dumb setup for dumb reason
WorkSafe visit (OSHA)
Robot maintenance?
Justin requests:
Video Editing rec?
Industrial Engineer rec? IANAE (like IANAL)
Lutron Pico 🧑‍🍳💋
Shelly 1PM
Dashboards

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Jem Freeman
Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia
Like Butter | Instagram | More Links
Justin Brouillette
Portland, Oregon, USA
PDX CNC | Instagram | More Links
47 min
April 28178 - A popup worth thousands
Jem powers through a sick week and sales slump while Justin accidentally nukes his revenue with a premature sale popup. They swap stories about migrating to Obsidian, testing Parakeet voice dictation, and rant about industrial e-commerce still living in 2005. Also: Allbirds going full GPU, Cursor buyout fears, and why keeping credit cards on scrap paper is a bad idea.
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UMC shop organization
Sick Daddy
I killed our sales
Buy now, think later
Internet debris
TypeWhisper free / MacWhisper
Obsidian
Back to the Cloud 2.0
AllBirds -> AI
Cursor to
Lack of grip will do that
Pumpkin Plan

Justin's rant: State of Ecommerce in MFG industry
Approved to order 🤦‍♂️
Prices not public 🤦‍♂️
Added addresses prior to approval🤦‍♂️
"wait up to next hour till addresses live"
No idea what shipping costs 🤦‍♂️

I might as well send in a telegram for an order and wait a fortnight for a response
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Jem Freeman
Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia
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Justin Brouillette
Portland, Oregon, USA
PDX CNC | Instagram | More Links
53 min
April 14177 - Chippy, don't do it
Justin wrestles with a backwards-wired Tormach AF50 saw and delegates tasks to his new hire. Jem rebuilds his job management system on a local server. They discuss 150% increase in aluminum, meeting fatigue, and their skepticism about SimTheory's Canva acquisition. Roomba learning to clean pegboard.
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Tormach AF50 Saw, no bueno
Linux server?
Shopboard
Traction - Issues List
150% increase cost Aluminum
Simtheory bought by Canva

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Jem Freeman
Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia
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Justin Brouillette
Portland, Oregon, USA
PDX CNC | Instagram | More Links
1 hr 9 min
March 31176 - We don't sell to inch people
Justin hires his first office employee, Jem catches up on emails using Cursor, and both discuss the challenges of delegating tasks in their growing businesses of delegating tasks in their growing businesses. They cover AirShop new features and a big milestone, 3D printer mishaps, expensive robot maintenance, profit-first accounting discipline, and building new custom product configurators.
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577 days
Strict 7-day flow working well
Cursor inbox catchup
Delegation (email?)
The Shelves drafted
Justin hiring?
PS2 Boxed Up
Robot service in progress, they old

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Jem Freeman
Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia
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Justin Brouillette
Portland, Oregon, USA
PDX CNC | Instagram | More Links
50 min
March 24175 - Trenchcoat tool tags
Justin and Jem weigh up if expensive trade shows are worth the $15k entry or if walking the floor with a "trench coat" of products is the smarter play. Between squashing bugs in the kitchen and mourning 62% price hikes on magnets, they tackle the absolute loop of shittness that is FedEx losing custom plywood shelves. Plus, Justin notices used Mac prices are on the rise and orders a cardboard shredder.
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Tool Show FU
Thick dentist
Buy Kitta Parts in US [PLACEHOLDER]
Buy Macs, like holding gold
Matthew's Simple Wood Goods Edge Sander
Youtube Playlist of our Songs
Benn Jordan audio prompt injection
Cardboard Expander

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Jem Freeman
Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia
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Justin Brouillette
Portland, Oregon, USA
PDX CNC | Instagram | More Links
58 min
March 17174 - Spreadsheet Queens
Jem and Justin chat about complicated speaker parts, CAM programming headaches, and why wood routing feels less reliable than metal work. They geek out over Joe Roggenbuck's knowledge-sharing channel, discuss Jem's new Profit First spreadsheet rebuild (RIP Laura), and explore hiring challenges for a growing team. Plus: trade shows, work stops, and late-night coding sessions as a form of meditation.
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Two Years of Profit First
Spreadsheet rebuild, first AI redundancy
Cobra HQ Plus - good simple machine shop content from Joe Roggenbuck @cobraframebuilding
KittaParts Builder v3 - test deployed here
Trying to consolidate or just making excuses?
AirShop Start a Trial now available
AirShop to Fusion in 2-clicks
Going to tool shows?
Mercury bank

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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
54 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.