So in the last episode, we finally took possession of the building
after the tenant leased back for me for the past 16 months.
But in this episode, we've got a lot.
Of work to do before we.
Can finalize the building to bring machines over to get set up so.
We can start making. Chips.
Let's get started.
So here we are in the front office.
Now, keep in mind this. Is all going to be demoed, so.
That's why we're not trying to be careful trying to protect the walls or anything.
We have resin, we have primer, we have the gloss is the top coat.
We're minutes away from throwing stuff down.
Let me give you a quick shot of what we got going on out here.
So the epoxy guys.
Have used the shot blasting machine to attack off the top.
Layer of concrete.
You can see it looks like it's a finely manicured lawn.
Now we're minutes.
Away from putting down the primer.
The primer is tinted the same color as the epoxy.
So it's going to be the most dramatic
contrast between concrete and the final product.
So in that cue, the time lapse montage
and a.
All right.
So here we are. It's Monday morning.
This is the first.
Opportunity I've gotten to see the floor.
It looks amazing.
Now, to stay on the timeline,
the epoxy contractor came in and they wrapped up on Saturday.
So we've had a full Sunday and Monday.
48 hour cheer time.
It's still curing.
We can walk on it.
We can do some light work on it.
We are not going to put any heavy equipment on this like the two lists.
We still have some work to do up high.
So we're not going to put any weight on this
and definitely not move any machines in at all for quite a while.
So we're going to give it another week while we finish up some
some little minor details.
To that point, like the poor around me, they got a little bit of epoxy on it.
They did a good job of cleaning it off, but we're going to want to touch that up
with paint along the the wall where the where the wall meets the epoxy.
Obviously, it's splashed up just a little bit
as they squeegee it on and roll it.
So what we're going to do
is we're going to have another contractor come in and install vinyl baseboard.
Do you see them in office environments often?
And, you know, it's it's these are concrete walls.
I would recommend it if you're going up against drywall.
But it's just going to add another layer of protection.
This is a working shop.
Walls are going to get bumped, so we're going to have that done.
We also can put some ladders in place, not lifts.
So we have some electrical, some bulbs to finish up.
We'll wrap that up while we wait for the epoxy to have its final cure.
Now, more.
Specifically, we went with a. Orange.
Peel finish on it.
Now, with most epoxies you can put in flake, which adds a color,
you can put in the texture which adds a little bit of slip resistance.
We just went with just a standard orange peel.
It almost looks like a textured wall.
I did that for a few reasons.
If you're working with small components, small parts
and you drop something and you have a colored flake in place,
good luck finding it. You pretty
much have to get down on the ground and look for that small component.
So whether we have fasteners or some of the screws we use, I just
I just didn't want to do that.
I really love the clean, solid color look and as.
Far as texture.
So you can add texture for slip resistance.
I'm not a fan of that because we clean our floors weekly and we have a walk behind.
Floor scrubber and texture.
It just it doesn't squeegee up the moisture.
The the cleaning agent, the whatever it's
called, the soap as well when it has a texture on it.
Some machines apparently work better.
Not the one we got,
but orange peel gives a little bit of slip resistance
because it does have a little bit of texture on it.
And I didn't want glass smooth because when you spill something,
the surface tension like it just spreads.
The orange peel is like that sweet spot between like a glass surface
and a textured surface.
I'm so blown away and super happy with how it turned out.
Okay, we're right on schedule now.
Over the next few days, we're going to wrap up electrical and get Internet
hooked up so we can get the assembly and shipping stations set up to.
Start processing orders from this location before we move
over any machinery.
So one of the things we have to tackle
is how does a company with tens of thousands of dollars and.
Daily orders.
Stop shipping and then set it up
in a new location without letting orders get behind?
Well, we tackled it with two different phases.
Now, any new components that we would machine immediately goes on pallets.
Anything that's been machine that goes to anodized or plating goes on pallets.
From there we would move all of that raw inventory,
pre assembled inventory to the new facility.
Meanwhile, we deplete the inventory that's already assembled.
That was previously. In this room.
Now my team moved over there, my assembly team moved over there.
Once they reached a threshold of completed assembled components that was.
Greater in number than the components over here.
That's when we shut this place down.
And we really only had about 2 hours of downtime when we moved
our shipping stations over there and then continued to ship same day.
So one of the things we thought we would do is take everything down.
Just kill a day, burn a day. Move everything over...
no Raw components, duplicate everything,
finished components, get those shelves as low as possible, almost a zero.
When you cross that threshold of. Having.
More stuff at the new place and fewer here,
that's when this place moves over and then we move 100%.
So far, it's worked beautifully.
Okay, so here we are at. The new shop.
Now, for those of you that have tracked with our channel.
You will be familiar with what this area looks like.
Let me give you a quick overview.
Over here, we have all of our boxes. Why?
Because right over there is where.
All the beginning of the.
Boxes start. And we.
Ship from right to left.
Down to our fulfillment cart.
And it goes to UPS at the end of the day.
So we have our boxes, we have our pallets in our pro.
And mini system here.
Then in this cell, we.
Have all of our Smart Vac series.
On this shelf. We have our hot items.
Those are the things most.
Commonly ordered that goes with starter packages, things like that.
As we come over here.
We have our Rotovise area and then raw components behind me.
Now, what we've tried to do here is to duplicate our old shipping room
so that we don't have to relearn new processes.
Now by doing that, we can just keep our workflow going naturally.
And then while our new state of the art
assembly and shipping room is built, then we go over there,
we revisit the processes, we document them, and then we follow them.
It's going to be amazing.
But for now we have all of our assembly outside of this area
and we pass them right through the shelves.
So it's a kind of a precursor to how the new.
Assembly and shipping room is going to look.
That's going to be excited.
It is machinery moving.
Day one of two, we got the guys from SoCal machinery.
Movers here with a couple semis and a forklift.
They're going to start.
Putting stuff on the beds to head to the new shop.
Let's get started.
So the
guys back the truck in at about 7:15 this morning.
It's just after 8:15.
So after one hour of time, they've loaded four machines.
They're just chaining them down right now.
These guys are the best.
Up next, they're going to pull this out onto the street,
bringing the second truck to pick up two more machines.
Let's check that out.
Okay.
This is something that I've always wondered about.
Quentin here is going to show me what this is.
How does this work? First of all, what are they called?
We call these binders, and essentially
it turns this long chain into something a little shorter and tighter.
So what we'll do is we'll loop it around here.
Link it up
To get for
it as tight as he can.
What I'm doing is you want to miss that sheet metal too Okay?
Right here.
It's real close.
And then
we have it pulling on the other side to right here and all this excess chain.
So here it is, tightening it up right underneath the machine.
Actually tightened up on that side door
and then use a breaker bar and it locks it down.
We call it a cheater pipe. Okay. Yeah.
So it's one chain that goes all the way through.
You hook it on here.
And then you use two segments of it to pull it.
Together. Exactly.
We have a loop around this way right here. Huh?
All right, then we wrap it around, okay?
Yeah. We make sure for the CHP we make it
all nice and pretty for them.
Nice, pretty nice CHP We got it.
Finder.
Finder. Cool.
It's just like finder in a cheater pipe.
Yeah, Just learn something cool. Thanks.
Man. And
okay, it is just past 10:30, about 3 hours.
We got five machines loaded up on two trucks up.
Right now, they are going to drop off the mini mill.
Now, my beloved mini mill, the machine that started it at all.
I sold that to my guy, Jerry.
He's got a side hustle rebuilding.
Blowers for motors.
So the mini mill is going to his shop, and then a mile away, is our new shop.
And then they're going to unload.
So we've got a little bit of time to kill, but we still have one, two, three,
four, five, maybe six machines, if you include our scene.
CNC grinder and the saw still producing.
So the next step is once
those machines get dropped off, we're going to put air electrical to it.
Those will begin producing.
Then we'll prep the other spaces
for five days from now, the rest of the machines to produce.
So if you look around here, we've got this machine,
we have the mini mill and the VF 2b that was right behind us.
And then of course the UMC.
The Doosan lathe 220LSYC and the 220L out of the way.
It's remarkable because this shop, when we first moved in, it seemed so big
and then with all these machines it felt so small.
And in a weird way it suddenly feels a little bit bigger again.
That's just the way it is.
But wait until you see that new shop.
Let's head over there.
So we have all the fronts of the machines marked out with corner tapes,
corners of the machines should be right above the corner.
Targets
and close is good enough,
but straight is really important.
You go in a little bit.
More counterclockwise this way, left,
right there. Yep.
Yeah.
One of the things to remember is, you know, we’re the customers. So
if you're in the same position, don't
feel pressured for, you know, your riggers
to try and put your machine in a spot to make it easy for them.
We will spend half an hour
getting the machine straight in the right place, if that's.
What it takes. Again, these guys are pros.
Now at the first time, good communication.
Everyone's happy.
Okay, So that completes the moving of all the machines is part one.
Remember, there's part two that happens six days from now.
So we've got the UMC, the VF2 SS.
Over here we have the oldest machine, our 2015 VF2.
Our 2015.
220 Lynx and then our 220LSY Lynx.
So we've got some homework we need to do.
In the meantime, we still need to run some more conduit
to these machines to verify the drop positions.
We also need to put up our air lines.
We didn't want to put up airlines first and then realize the conduit
needs to go around it or do any crazy bends.
And then the last thing will do
is Ethernet, because all of our machines are networked.
After that, then we can move in the rest of the machines,
put those in place, have the electricians come in, pull wire,
we're going to stay up and running, operational for the next three days.
On the fourth day we're going to kill power prepped the machines on Friday
for machine day number two the following Monday.
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