what’s up everybody paulwood Pro Shop
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here and today we have a real treat for
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you we are going through a tour of viser
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precision an amazing machine shop here
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in very bright and sunny Denver Colorado
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and I tell you I’m from the Northwest
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it’s springtime I don’t think I’ve seen
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the Sun for months so I got my shades on
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and before I burned to a crisp let’s go
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get inside and meet Jack Kerr the
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president all right well Jack thank you
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for letting us come and tour of the shop
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I know you have an amazing facility I
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know people are going to be very excited
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to see what you guys do here but uh
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let’s start by uh just sharing a little
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bit about the company yeah uh we’re
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visista Precision we’ve been around
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since
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2010 uh primarily an aerospace
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manufacturer where we’re doing a
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contract manufacturing for both additive
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and machining Services Precision
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Machining five AIS Machining complex
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stuff the stuff that nobody else wants
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to do that’s what we typically sign up
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for awesome and you also some specialize
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in additive and then subtractive the
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part that’s right awesome yeah well
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that’s that’s Cutting Edge stuff so
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excited to see it let’s go check it
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out all right where are we here so this
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is our additive area right where we’re
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doing all of our additive manufacturing
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and really this is where our additive
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Journey began we’ve had our 280 back
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there since 2013 so we’ve been printing
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now for about 11 years okay so I feel
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like we’re one of the first to really
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start to adop this technology and what
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Alloys are you printing in these
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machines primarily aluminum nickel based
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alloys in titanium and stainless okay
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and you have how many machines total
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additive nine metal additive platforms
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currently that’s that’s quite a number
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some single lasers multi- laser machines
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you know they all do different things
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different build uh volumes but all what
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is the sort of the newest best biggest
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that you have the biggest platform we
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have right now is an m44 by EOS which is
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a four laser machine that has about a
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16inch volume nice cubically you can do
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some pretty good size Parts in that
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that’s right yeah all right cool well
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let’s keep going see the rest of the
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shop this is all your powder that’s
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right powder
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management do you do uh do you do powder
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Management in Pro Shop not yet okay yeah
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we probably need
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to yeah well we could probably talk
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about that I know there’s some uh ways
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that some clients are doing that okay so
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these are still the additive this is
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additive yep so these are the 4004s
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yeah you got to stand up on the platform
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to look inside of
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it what’s it doing it’s uh laying down
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another layer of powder and then
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printing about 20 Micron layers at a
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time and then it uses laser to Center
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yeah there’s four lasers in that machine
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there so one in each quadrant and it
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just it grows the part from the bottom
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up so cool and then you’ll finish
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machine it obviously it will wire it off
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the plate the these parts here don’t
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require any post Machining we’ll just
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wire them off and ship them wire EDM
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them off off the plate right okay new
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terms with additive that that I’m
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learning this is our newest printer it’s
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actually being set up right now oh wow
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what’s what’s unique about this one this
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is an slm 500 German machine we’re
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setting it up with aluminum alsi 10mg
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for production so this
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machine you can see has some ancillary
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compartments and activities that are
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happening to the side here oh it’s like
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the whole thing that’s right so you can
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process the the build outside of the
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machine so that your uptime is is a lot
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better as opposed to having to tear down
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the set up to vacuum off some of the
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extra powder under in an inert
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environment very cool wow I like it and
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I noticed this gentleman over here he’s
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running Pro Shop right now yeah I see uh
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a pro shop tour right now yeah so I
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guess uh Garrett would doing Pro I
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promise we didn’t stage that our machine
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check ah yeah the equipment module doing
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equipment calibration and preventative
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maintenance stuff right y That’s Right
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awesome very cool I love
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it all right and there’s a fairly big
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looking machine at the end of this room
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looks like you got a pair of them that’s
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right these are Vell 3D machines we run
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inl 718 and these they both have two
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lasers wow and uh they have unique
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recoding technology where it’s a vacuum
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recoder so it doesn’t touch the part
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okay whereas traditional additive you
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have a recoder blade coming across apart
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every layer okay um this eliminates a
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lot of recoder contact which causes
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build failures sometimes okay so it’s a
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more reliable process more reliable
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process and is it unique to doing Inc
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canel and and nickel base it ALS they
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you can set it up with aluminum as well
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but it’s a closed system so you kind of
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got to pick your alloy and run with it
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stick with it okay very cool and here we
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are in the machine shop and then we move
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to subtractive subtractive that’s right
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that’s the using the right terms and so
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looks like we got lathes maybe we step
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into the lathe area um I do have some
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tail stock lathe on the other side for a
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little bit more short run prototype work
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this is a little bit more production
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oriented yeah but uh so these are
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subspindle layes y AIS live tooling you
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got a mix got some
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ducon Nakamura twin turret twin spindle
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machine those are amazing yeah very cool
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and then some wire machines yeah that’s
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right two machino wires for precision
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wire work as well as an hb600 wire which
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uh res spools the wire and so and it it
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moves a lot faster than also cutting
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parts off oh yeah is this the parts we
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just saw that’s right yep so these are
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an automotive application that’s right
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okay so these are basically stuck to
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this plate but you’re just going to trim
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them off we’re going to wire them right
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off the plate and we’re going to ship
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them out wow yeah so this machine this
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wire is basically a glorified Band Saw
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okay we call it what it is yeah that’s
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pretty cool now how come some of these
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have a double wall are they actually
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just nesting inside or are they actually
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connected I believe they’re connected oh
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wow and that’s that’s the beauty of
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additive is you can build things and
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consolidate parts and make them more
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monolithic um which just opens up a lot
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of design possibilities okay so is this
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some kind of intake that’s right
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componentry Motorsports um I’m not
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exactly sure the but it is some kind of
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intake or Muffler
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component and you have a nice Roa pallet
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tool on this minino that’s
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right uh we don’t run this machine a lot
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but we when we do it can automate
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electrode uh Prim for running graphite
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in this machine here got it um for our
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Sinker yeah good vacuum system on
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it nice and you guys you guys invest in
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nice equipment yeah no doubt about it
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yeah
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yeah well like I said we’re growing into
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this investment right we have a if you
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build it they will come mentality it’s a
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growth company and I knew that I needed
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an Erp that could support this kind of
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workflow right this level of scale and
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uh yeah Pro Shop just dovetailed right
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into exactly what we were trying to do
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awesome you have some Swiss over here
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Swiss screw machines yeah yeah very nice
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all with Edge Technologies bar feeders
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and then some uh some some verticals
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over here here that’s
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right how do you like these Triss
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systems they’re okay hit or miss okay
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yeah oh wow so what have we got over
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here so this is a morphous metal casting
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this is really the technology that
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viscor Precision was founded on and
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really tried to to get off the ground
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we’re now one of only maybe three or
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four people in the world that can do
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this technology and so we make planetary
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years for space applications luxury
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goods for companies in Europe okay um
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for very Niche applications but uh
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highly profitable wow from space to
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high-end uh that’s right high-end
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fashion
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amazing we have uh so are those is it
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like a low to medium volume kind of
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process the the goal is high volume the
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the development that goes into these
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types of projects for low volume it just
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doesn’t make sense got it so how do we
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find those commercially viable products
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that cu the material is not cheap right
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where does this make sense where are the
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benefits of this material so is it a
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little bit like an injection molding
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process but it’s with metal that’s right
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and what kind of metals just so maybe
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some yeah it’s a bulk metallic glass
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zirconium based alloy okay yeah and uh
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has really high
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modulus elasticity y uh really unique
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properties Within itself right um does
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not expand or creep under extreme
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temperatures see why the space applic
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which is why the space applications
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exactly right so strain wave gears
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planetary gears perfect applications for
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this type of process all right yeah
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learn something new every day
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yeah all right and uh looks like some
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water jets over in the corner couple
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water jets smaller format water jets to
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support the casting effort really for
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you know cutting in gets to to length
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and then degating Rings all right and
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things like that yeah wide variety yeah
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more verticals and uh so I’ve seen some
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just a few computer stations here and
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there so you have kind of your Pro Shop
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stations kind of distributed through
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that’s right yeah a lot of the guys on
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the floor can program and so they all
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have individual computers and so they’re
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able to access Pro Shop in real time as
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they’re working on their parts got it
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okay how the
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everywhere so clearly an aerospace
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application all right now the machines
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are getting bigger that’s right so
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larger format five AIS machines 12
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pallet pool station that’s a 12 pallet
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for a 125 monolock or du block do block
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wow yeah that is uh that’s that is
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massive I didn’t want to know what kind
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of concrete you had to put under that
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exactly
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exactly so we have three
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125s you have one of the 125s has the FD
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option for
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turning
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yeah okay so the this one has the
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pallets the others are Standalone this
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has a pallet one pallet not a pallet
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pool yeah and then the other one is a
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standalone got it okay yeah and some
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MAAC 5 axis too MH yeah nice
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yeah we can’t film the parts themselves
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cuz they’re itar controlled
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unfortunately but
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uh trust me they’re really cool looking
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um and so yeah some more some more
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dmus we can come this
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way I love the triple monitor setup here
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yeah so uh so these are these guys are
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programming and setting up their own
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machines that’s right that’s right okay
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yeah now are they um setting up
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production jobs or do you have like like
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a like a separate value stream for
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separate value stream exactly y okay
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yeah we did that at our shop we had guys
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that were dedicated to prototype quick
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turn small volume they had their
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programming stations right in front of
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the machine exact it’s such an optimal
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way to go yeah trying to do oneoff Parts
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hard Parts in a from a programming
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office just doesn’t make a lot of sense
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I’ve tried it and it’s usually not
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effective and what are you guys using
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for programming Master cam okay
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awesome very good good partner of
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ours nice yeah more double triple with
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the vertical monitor I love
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it yeah I was one of our uh Australian
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customers we got a picture and they one
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of their stations had a double wide and
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then the vertical for doing in process
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checks or whatever it might be um nice
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to have that set up absolutely
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everything’s digital now right
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absolutely no
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Travelers so more uh yeah just
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combination of moris May so really Mory
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mzac and and there’s really
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and then over EDM and
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wire okay and some more multi pallet set
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systems here but smaller scale
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obviously these parts are not itar
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controlled over here okay so we can see
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these oh yeah that looks like an
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automotive or application you can get in
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there if you want that is a cool looking
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AR very cool you know what kind of
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vehicle I do it’s uh it’s a motorsport
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application all right yeah they go
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around in circles
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okay on pavement or on dirt on pavement
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on pavement okay and then that has a
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what it like a dozen pallets that’s
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right on it as well L work holding nice
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yep yeah nothing but good stuff here wow
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and then a whole bunch of uh a bunch of
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horizontal horizontals
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yeah yeah you have a lot of machine
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they’re just
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everywhere I like that fixturing with
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the multiple
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uh multiple three Jaws on the the
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Tombstones and we had a different job
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running in this just a few weeks ago and
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the way that we’ve kind of designed our
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fixturing to be modular made this setup
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super easy and seamless right it’s
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basically Plug and Play within a day
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sure and uh so you know maybe it’s a
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little quiet over in this corner so it’s
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a good time to chat a little bit how how
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has shop been beneficial compared to
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your your last system it just gives us
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so much more visibility to the workflow
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okay you know um more user friendly the
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guys understand it better right right um
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it’s got a user interface that they’re
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more familiar with right yeah um and you
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know we haven’t been using Pro Shop all
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that long maybe about a just over a year
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okay and I feel like we still haven’t
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mined all of its functionality we just
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keep pulling back layer after layer and
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we’re like oh my God
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there’s so much here that we can do with
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this system right and we’re really
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trying to make a concerted effort to get
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that kind of trajectory of uh adoption
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you know accelerated because we’re like
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we’re missing out so much value or we’re
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leaving money on the table right because
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we’re not letting Pro Shop do what it
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was designed to do and give us the data
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that we need to make better decisions
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sure right and so there’s still a few
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more machines here
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uh yeah we could you can walk into the
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CMM area yeah I love the quality policy
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up on the
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wall so there’s an itar part on the CMM
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we can’t film that but you have uh a
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couple of beautiful Zeiss uh machines
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very nice and what are you using for
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programming Calypso Calypso that’s what
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we use at our shop too for our Zees yeah
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climate controlled yep obviously do
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equipment calibration in here
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calibration yeah okay very good and then
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probably Beyond us is like planning
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program okay yeah can we go check that
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out real
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quick a lot of our staff here ends up on
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the floor quite a bit so it can be hit
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or miss about who’s actually in the
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office right got it so everybody’s
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pitching in in some way shape or form
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wearing lots of different hats got a lot
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of projects on the go yeah yeah so I
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know you guys have a little bit of a uh
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a NASCAR background um just tell us a
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little bit about that
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yeah our NASCAR background of the owner
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back in about 2006 decided uh he’s an
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ambitious guy and he’s like why can’t I
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start a NASCAR team out in Denver even
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though there is absolutely no Talent OR
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support in Denver it’s all car that’s
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right he’s like but I’m going to do it
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anyways and just built it from the
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ground up uh and just over time got a
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little bit better and a little bit
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better and uh I believe it was 2017 we
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actually won the championship W very
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cool yeah over that you know what 11
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years 11e period going from basically
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zero infrastructure in the area being
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able to build a team that was good
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enough to take it all the way to the top
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it’s pretty impressive and that’s one of
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the reasons you got into Precision
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manufacturing prec Machining that’s
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right was because of to support our
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NASCAR team effort okay yeah and they
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are making parts that go on rockets and
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satellites and all over very cool yeah
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awesome well is there more you think we
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should look at or is this this is really
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it okay yeah well we saw we went we
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walked past 50 machines or so um really
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impressive facility um thank you so much
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for being a customer so glad it’s making
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an impact here it’s making an impact
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yeah and uh yeah thanks for opening your
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doors to uh to the world yeah appreciate
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it absolutely all right jack thanks Paul
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thanks so much