Ya, I'm Scott Pobjoy
and i own a
small manufacturing company
called Cash manufacturing and i make parts iand accessories for muzzle
loading guns
and accouterments for reenactors like civil war reenactors and so forth
i started working for Ted Cash when i was in high school
and I saw the benefits of owning his own business
he could do what he wanted when he wanted. He worked a lot of hard hours
but it was for himself.
And so I always felt that one day I was going to own my own business.
and then
as time went on and and he talked about retiring
I looked into buying his business
And I came
about buying a Tormach mill
because we make a lot of our own tooling for punch presses
and my tool and die maker said I needed a CNC mill.
and we started looking and we found that they were either real expensive or real
cheap and we didn't want to go cheap
And so he found Tormach
and
we couldn't believe it was in our town
so we went over and looked
and we ended up buying a Tormach mill
and we've been real happy with it.
I have no CNC background at all
and that was a concern but my tool and die maker has a lot
and what he does is he would do all the programming for me
and then I would run the machine which is relatively easy.
The nice thing with the mail
is I can take
a part that i have
and I can put a stamp on it
using the mill. I can engrave a stamp on it and I can send it to a customer and show
them
what it would look like and then when the customer agrees to buy it, then I can have a
stamp made
on the punch-press.
So the mill works great for prototyping in that way.
One of the neatest things I do
for production
is I make this little nipple wrench
and it's used on the rifles, the muskets and the pistols
for taking the nipples off
and it comes with a little ratchet.
And you just ratchet the nipple on and ratchet it off.
And I can take these and I can them on the Tormach,
in a little jig I made,
and i can
mill the hexagon
eighteen at a time, it will do one then go to the next and then the next one.
And then I have it heat treat hardened to 41 Rockwell.
And that's what makes these such a good seller is because they won't break.
To change a nipple on the revolvers,
you take the cylinder out of the gun
and you can take a nipple wrench
and take
the nipple off.
That one's loose.
This is how we prototyped
the badge.
We
bolt the plate down here on the tormach.
And we actually engrave four badges
at one time
and then we put a different cutter in
and then we cut each badge out individually.
and we cut all the way around until we leave a tab here.
on each one
and then we bolt this on
to hold it down tighter then we cut each tab off.