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Season 2 Episode 1 - The Abom79 Podcast

• Adam Booth • Season 2 • Episode 1

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We are back for season 2 of the Abom79 Podcast! We discuss what we have been up to the last several months, the tool sale and IMTS 2026. Watch on YouTube @abom79 

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SPEAKER_01

Hey everybody, welcome back to the A Bomb Seventy Nine Podcast. I'm your host, Adam Booth, along with my wife, Abby Booth.

SPEAKER_00

Hey everybody.

SPEAKER_01

And it's been a little while since we have we are finally back. It has been a while since we've done one of these, and uh there's really no good reason why we haven't done a podcast.

SPEAKER_00

We have been hustling with a capital H. Capital H. Hustling.

SPEAKER_01

That is the excuse. That is because we have been busy all year with a lot of things, not just stuff here in the shop, but we've been dealing with our uh shop move, shop clean out from the old home shop. We're gonna touch on that a little bit. And we've been busy with jobs and projects and and uh and even shop projects around here too. And honestly, it's just like we just keep putting it off, like, all right, we're gonna do one next week, we're gonna do one next week, and then we'd say, Well, I'm busy. I would say I'm busy this week. Yep, let's do it again next week. And we're finally here, and uh, we've had a lot of people the past I think eight months, you know, say, Hey, we miss you guys, where you at? We want to hear the podcast. So uh so we're back and we're gonna try to stay current with these um hopefully at least every month, because we one of our one of our goals with this podcast was not just Abby and I sitting here talking about whatever it is that we're doing, but we also wanted to have friends and partners in the industry on our podcast as well. So that is something that's gonna be coming down the pipeline is uh talking with other people in this industry. Uh, it could be some people, uh, let's just say like Miltronics. I'd love to have Steve on here talk about his experience with Miltronics and that kind of stuff. I'd like to have some of our friends that are machinists as well on here and just have friendly conversations about their experience and and their shop. So that's some of the stuff that we do want to have on our podcast coming in the near future. So we're gonna work on that as well. So I think Abby's got some things that uh she wants us to discuss in today's episode, and I'm gonna kind of let her uh lead into that.

SPEAKER_00

And I have a big list because again, we've been doing a lot of things, specifically the tool sale, which I cannot wait to talk about because the whole experience has been amazing. But uh we rested this last weekend. We decided that okay, we're not gonna go anywhere, we're gonna stay home, we're gonna watch movies, and uh it was a true weekend that I asked Abby, I said, can we just stay home?

SPEAKER_01

I don't want to leave the house except for going out on the patio and cooking some barbecue. I didn't want to have to go anywhere.

SPEAKER_00

That's right. So uh, but I I wanted to say something because it it made me laugh. We ended up watching the new Masters of the Universe movie, which of course we loved. Um the old one is one of my favorite movies from my childhood, and I have seen it a million times.

SPEAKER_01

And and just point out, we did watch the original from the 80s before we watched the new one, just to kind of get caught up on it.

SPEAKER_00

We did, and the something ended up happening that made me laugh so hard that I had to pause it. Because uh when you go into the skeletor's layer or whatever, the very first thing that Adams talks about is what, babe?

SPEAKER_01

There's no handrails. There's there is always this endless pit of doom next to the sidewalk that they're walking on, and there's never a handrail. So I was just pointing out I was like, there's no handrails.

SPEAKER_00

I laugh so hard over that. He always points that out, and um also trip hazards, he likes to print uh point out trip hazards, but anyway, the uh masters of the universe know handrails, that's hilarious.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. So I I think it's just I think it's my age. And I think a lot of us that are in our mid-40s pretty much all feel the same way about life now. You know, what's important to us. Um we want our peace and quiet, we want our privacy, um you know, we want we want good meals.

SPEAKER_00

We don't want to get up and down from the floor.

SPEAKER_01

And I and I think the big thing is that most of people our age now, and and older than us too, are really starting to miss the nostalgic part of our our our life. The 80s, the 90s, you know, when things were simpler, when we didn't have so many things distracting us, you know, our phones and our our cameras and and computers and YouTube, you know, all these digital platforms that everybody has to stay up on all the time, us included, you know. Um I think that we all kind of missed that simpler life. And of course, back in the 80s, we really didn't know what we had.

SPEAKER_00

We didn't, you know. We got to go and run in the neighborhood. Yeah, we would go all day and not see our parents. All day. They had no idea where we were. Once in a while, we would check in, be home by dinner. That was like the rule be home by dinner. Yeah, don't be out there when it's dark.

SPEAKER_01

I in when I was a teenager in the 90s, mid-90s, you know, me and my friends used to go off riding dirt bikes and four-wheelers, and we would be gone for hours, all day, miles away from the house. No cell phone, not a cell phone in sight, no water. If we broke down in the middle of the woods, we were SOL, man.

SPEAKER_00

You figured it out. Yeah. That's right.

SPEAKER_01

Uh, and you know, and that's that's part of my childhood. I always think back like, man, we used to ride all day and had no phone near us.

SPEAKER_00

I feel bad for parents now in a lot of ways. You can't take your eyes off your children. Like it the world is a scary place now.

SPEAKER_01

It's different now.

SPEAKER_00

I know that it was scary then too, but like it just wasn't everybody watched out for each other. It was it, you know, if another mom, you were at her house, she's making you peanut butter and jelly, you know, they there call your mom, let you let them know you're safe, you know. I mean, it was just such a different time.

SPEAKER_01

It it was. And I and I've mentioned that to parents, and they quickly tell me that, well, it was a different time. You can't leave your children alone now. You can't let them go run and be free because everybody's paranoid that something bad's gonna happen. And I and I get that, I understand it. But uh, what I notice now is that every every child is attached to their parents 24-7. There is no parent sitting down trying to talk and discuss things without kids running around you in a circle because they they can't go and play, they have to be next to the parents now.

SPEAKER_00

It's a different world now, yeah. And again, I feel bad for parents having to worry about their children a hundred percent of the time. I think that just that's so that sucks.

SPEAKER_01

I think we grew up in a good time. I did. I think we got to grow up in a in a in a in the 80s and 90s, and we had a good time, we got great memories, and we long for those kinds of experiences. Yeah, the simpler times. But now we have to deal with our back hurting and paying bills and making sure that work gets done to satisfy customers.

SPEAKER_00

And you get destroyed online and oh yeah, absolutely. You know, it's everybody has something to say and it's everybody's being judged. It's it's just the way things are. I don't love it. I don't love it compared, I think.

SPEAKER_01

I I like the simpler Yeah, there's plenty of days I don't love it either. I love what I do, I love being a machinist, I love my machines and tools, but some days, some days I I I would rather be somewhere else just because of the issues that you know you have to deal with as a business owner.

SPEAKER_00

And well, my job is being replaced by AI right now. So graphic designers are still necessary, but I don't know what's gonna happen. It's very bizarre.

SPEAKER_01

Yep, yep.

SPEAKER_00

But I think uh we just want to build our house and yes, we do have privacy and we are we are working towards that still.

SPEAKER_01

So, I mean that's that's something that a lot of people ask us about because I'm amazed at how many people will say something like, What are you doing? You you selling your shop? What why are you moving that machine? I mean, we've been talking about this-closing up shop, we've been talking about this for a couple of years, and I understand not everybody gets caught up to every video and every post. But we just touch on this again. We've been working all year trying to clean out the home shop, and the goal is to get the entire property cleaned out. We're almost done, we're we're almost there. We want to get that property put on the market, hopefully, sell it sometime soon. We have no idea how that's gonna go. Uh, get that property sold, and then uh we we own 10 acres, and our goal is to build a house there. And what we want to do is build like a barnuminium style of house to where we have our shop and our home under one roof on our 10 acres, right in the middle of that 10 acres, far from the road, so nobody can look at us and uh enjoy our life right there, where we can wake up, I can have my coffee, walk out to the shop, do my work, walk inside, eat a sandwich for lunch, at the end of the day, turn the lights off and walk out on the patio and fire up the grill to cook some barbecue. That's all we want in life, you know?

SPEAKER_00

It seems like every single year that goes by the house gets smaller that we want and the shop gets bigger.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, it does.

SPEAKER_00

And uh I hope that that's what ends up happening because we've got a lot of plants. But um, it would be nice to have it all on one roof and not have to commute. We commute now.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

I don't I know there's a lot of people that have to commute in Los Angeles and Atlanta and all these really, really crazy busy places, so I have no right to complain.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, we have an average 20-minute commute, and then you have to deal with three lanes of traffic where everybody wants to be the fastest one on the road and try to cut you off every single day. See, before we moved to where we live right now, we never really had a commute. We both worked from home. And when I worked at the other place, it was literally a mile down the road, so it wasn't really a commute. Now we're dealing with traffic, so that's another reason why I come in so early is because I'm trying to beat that morning traffic.

SPEAKER_00

And now I'm realizing that that's what I need to do unless I want to spend 30 minutes in my car on the way into work.

SPEAKER_01

The first thing Abby said when she came in the door was like, it took me forever to get here today.

SPEAKER_00

I am not an early riser. I'm like I'm not a night owl and I'm not a morning um person. I'm really more of an afternoon pigeon. Um, but that's not really how this business works. I'm realizing I I can't I I get more stuff done. I hate saying this, I don't want to admit it.

SPEAKER_01

You can go ahead and let it out.

SPEAKER_00

I get I get more done between the hours of 6 and 9 than I a.m. than I do probably the whole entire rest of the day. So dang, he's rubbed off on me and it's your evil plan is working.

SPEAKER_01

Okay, let it out, let it out. Hey, isn't it nice getting your work done like the first half of the day? Yes. And then the second half of the day, it feels like you can catch up on other things that you want to do. Uh, you know, Abby will go run errands, she'll go to the grocery store for us, go take care of errands that need to be done, you know, and and it's just I think when you're a blue-collar worker, if you have a business, you know, it's just you you have to get up and you have to get to work and you have to get your work done. So that's just how it is. And I, you know, I think I've just kind of turned into my dad because he used to get up really early and go to work. And now I'm at that age where I understand my body doesn't let me sleep in. So I'm usually awake around 5, 5:30. And when I'm awake, when I do wake up, I just tell myself, might as well get up and have your first cup of coffee and get ready for the day. So I my body just won't let me sleep like when I was young. So I like I like going to bed early. That's the other thing about getting older.

SPEAKER_00

And we're nerds. We're nerds.

SPEAKER_01

That's what I was saying. Everybody kind of feels the same as we're seeing other people uh say the same thing. Hey, I want to go to bed early and then I want to wake up early. Just like when we have a beer or something, we like having a beer in the middle of the day, and you get it out of your system, you go to sleep the next day, you didn't even know that you drank the day before, you know. So times change whenever you when you get a little bit older, just things just kind of naturally progress and change for you.

SPEAKER_00

Well, I would also like to point out that I am a graphic designer. I've worked in marketing, so we kept normal business hours. It was a nine to five situation. I have never worked so hard in my life. The I don't know if we can call it blue collar anymore. I don't know what the word for it is now because it sort of seems like it's shifted a little bit. Like it's you know, the the trades are I don't know, but it's just such a cool thing and it's such a good time for for us to talk about that. But I have never worked so hard in my life. I don't know how you guys do it. Year after year after year after year. I I'm amazed. I I I've always thought that the industry people were incredible, and I've always had a very high respect, but now I and it's a different respect.

SPEAKER_01

So we we work for ourselves, it's just Abby and I here. And we always have uh a long list of responsibilities ahead of us that we have to do. I mean, first responsibility is we have jobs that we have to do. We have our own parts that we're that we're working on, like a drilling deck, for example, but other stuff too, you know. We have other things kind of moving along. Um, we have partnerships that we have to uh consider as well. There's any number of things that we have to do on the daily basis, and there's always an endless amount of uh interruptions that we have to deal with on the daily basis too.

SPEAKER_00

I mean I've never seen anything like it in my life.

SPEAKER_01

And so at Abby, Abby gets it, I get it, you know, you're working on one thing, and then within 10 seconds, all of a sudden you're at another part of the shop doing something completely different.

SPEAKER_00

I really wanted to plan out our schedule. I I was planning out days for you to work in the shop, for you to do these things, and it just gets blown out. Every single time we ever try to plan anything, we have to immediately shift. And I I think it is incredible just how much work we are getting done on a weekly basis. It's unbelievable.

SPEAKER_01

We do talk about, we've talked about this so many times about we want to try to make a schedule and let's try to write our day to like tomorrow we need to do this, this, and this, and we'll do it and then quickly just kind of move away from that and we don't stick to it. So it's our own doing. Um, but I think as uh when you work for yourself, you have to just figure out your own schedule and what's going to work for you, what makes sense. Um, not everybody works the same way, no, not everybody has the same organizational skills as others, you know. So we have to just do what's best for us. And for me, it's always basically a mental list of everything I need to do.

SPEAKER_00

If I don't write it down, it doesn't happen.

SPEAKER_01

I have, you know, any any given day, I have a video that I need to edit for YouTube, you know, because I want to keep those every every Saturday, have a video coming. I have to edit a video. I have jobs out here on the table that that need to get done. I have uh a whole list of emails where people are emailing me, and I feel terrible because I miss a lot of emails. People email me, and I have so many that it's sometimes hard to to follow up with everybody. And sometimes I tell people I'm like, dude, I I am sorry that I didn't get back to you the first time. Uh but and then on top of getting those emails done, you have this stuff going on out here that I gotta get to. So it's just a lot of things that we're all, I mean, both of us are trying to make sure that we get to that we take care of every day.

SPEAKER_00

And on top of that, we are cleaning out the property. So you guys know that we had our uh big tool sale, and the amount of work that we put into that cannot, it's immeasurable.

SPEAKER_01

It really is. And and and the only way that you could have appreciated what we put into that is if you showed up yourself to buy something.

SPEAKER_00

Um how did you feel about it? Like how how were you there's a lot of emotions going on in this. It's it's the old stuff, it's it's family things, it's making decisions about things that we can't fit in this shop space right now. It's it's talk about it it has been tough for me.

SPEAKER_01

It it really has been tough, but I've been trying to prepare myself for really a few years now. Honestly, this isn't just something that we decided one day, okay, it's time to move this stuff out and sell it and get rid of it, and move it down. I mean, this has been years and and and process, uh, but we finally just stopped putting it on the back burner and just went ahead and and tried to roll with it and try to get taken care of. But I know it's hard for people to to really see and understand truly how I feel about everything, and I and I feel like some people kind of get the wrong message there as well. I am a very sentimental person. You can look around my shop and you can see I've got things that belonged to my dad, my granddad, stuff that I've used for years, and then of course we have the new stuff in here that I really appreciate as well. But the past couple of years, it's been going through my mind mentally as I walk through the shop and I'm trying to get a game plan on what I want to keep, um, what I need to keep, and what I don't need to keep, and what will fit, and what will fit as well. So you have to you have to go through now. If you have endless amount of space like some people do, it's not a problem for you. We have 2,500 square foot in this in this shop right here, and that's including the office in there as well. And and we filled it up with machines. I mean, it's full. We we really don't have any more room in here. Uh, we're gonna make room, but we really don't have a lot. So as as the days progressed, and I know everything I have in my shop. I uh in the in the earlier days of planning this, I was like, Yep, we're gonna keep the Victor, we're gonna keep the monarch. Everybody loves the monarch. I love the monarch, that's a family machine. I'm not gonna get rid of it. But the truth started setting in. The reality of it is that I don't have the space in here for all that stuff. Yes, you could shoehorn it in here, but then you have no room to use a pallet jack, move stuff around, you run out of storage space. And then I was trying to um figure out what's what's more important, okay. Do I need the Victor lathe? I have a Precision Matthews here that I absolutely love because it was a brand new machine when we got it's it's smooth, quiet, it's a dependable machine, industrial quality, same exact size as the Victor. So, not really gaining anything other than having a second lathe. And my plan was to bring the Victor lathe, set it right there where you're sitting, right there, and sort of have this sort of square area. And then I got to I just thought about it more and more and realized that I don't really need the Victor anymore. I have this lathe, this is basically replacing the Victor, and the Victor has served its purpose for us for many decades, and we talk about that in the video where we moved the machine, so hopefully you guys are gonna see that. And I made the ultimate choice. I think it's okay to let it go, and that's the toughest part of it, right there, is deciding and telling yourself it's okay to let it go, it's okay to let it go to another home, it served us well, it's made us a lot of money, it's it's taught me how to be a machinist. But I have other machines to replace that, so it's okay to let it go. It's not the end of the world, and and it's really easy for somebody to to just disregard that and say, Oh, that's a family heirloom. I could never let that go. You you should have kept that, you know. Well, I made the decision that works best for me, and I decided to let that machine go.

SPEAKER_00

We have talked about it endlessly. We talk, we lay in bed, we talk about it. We're at lunch, we talk about it, we're at dinner, we talk about it.

SPEAKER_01

I mean we've talked about it so much.

SPEAKER_00

It's really hard because you guys only get to see just a little, you know, splattering of things here and there, but we we are in this every day talking about it, and and I know what it means to you.

SPEAKER_01

So Yeah. So I ultimately made the decision, and I know that I told Abby, I said, I I've decided that I even asked Abby, I was like, what do you think? Do you think that I'm making the wrong decision here? And she supported everything that I said and everything that I wanted to do. So we decided, let's go ahead and sell the Victor uh because we have what we need. And then the monarch lathe, I already told her, I said, I'm I'm keeping that, and she said, Well, if you if you're not keeping it, I am because I'm gonna put it in our living room.

SPEAKER_00

It's going in the living room, yeah.

SPEAKER_01

She wants to design the house where it's got like basically a little cubby that the monarch can sit in forever to just kind of be a backdrop. Now, that's just kind of thinking out loud. It's a beautiful machine, it's gonna be in our shop, and it's gonna be in this shop. So the monarch lathe is moving down here, but it's so hot now. I mean, we're hitting triple digits, I'm tired of moving stuff in the heat, so we're gonna wait till it cools off some before we move that big heavy machine. So, getting back to the machines there in the tool cell, ultimately made the decision to let the Victor go, but I also decided to let the dual milling machine go as well. Why? I really didn't need it. Okay, is it nice to have it because it was my dad's? Absolutely, but I don't have the space down here for another. Mill. So you know, whenever we moved into this space, this is one of the very first machines that came was a KVC mill. Brand new machine that's reliable, it's it's uh it's precise, doesn't have any wear in it per se, you know, other than what I put into it, and it's a lot, it's a much larger machine, which is what I prefer to use because besides that dual mill, I always ran our big Acra mill, and then we had um we had an Acer mill as well, and they were bigger machines, uh, 40 taper spindle. It means you can have bigger tooling in there, a bigger table, uh bigger throat there, you know, so you can put larger work pieces in. So, anyway, I'd rather use a larger machine. The dual I really wanted to have here and have as a secondary machine, but the reality of it is that I would probably never use it. I I probably would never use it. Occasionally maybe drill some holes, which is what it did in its first part of its life was drill holes. So we talked about it, same thing. We discussed it. I asked Abby, am I making the wrong decision here? She said, Nope, you do what's right and what you feel in your heart is the right choice to make. So I decided we're gonna sell the do-all, we're gonna sell the victor, and we're gonna move on. And I'm glad that I did. I did not dwell on those emotions and those feelings. I didn't cry about it in the evening, I didn't think about it. I just made that decision, this is what we're gonna do, and I've moved on. And I've and I've made that effort through everything in the shop that it's time to let this go, we're gonna sell this, and I'm not gonna think about it. I'm not gonna have what is it, seller's remorse. I didn't want to have that. Because I am very, very happy and thankful and appreciative of everything that I have now, everything I have in this shop, everything that we've bought that we've invested in in this shop, and I've got a lot of great things that uh belong to my dad and my granddad that we still have have in our possession. And we're gonna continue to invest in new machines as we build out our shop.

SPEAKER_00

And some of the new machines could be old machines. Absolutely. Just to say, just to point that out.

SPEAKER_01

Yep.

SPEAKER_00

They, the Victor and the Do All went to the sweetest family.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. We couldn't have asked for a better family that reached out and wanted to buy those machines. And uh so Jason, uh Jason and Liz over in Spring, Texas, hopefully they're gonna hear this. Uh, we really appreciate you guys and and uh reaching out to us and talking to us and visiting us. They actually, going back to the tool cell, they visited the first tool cell that we had. And if I if I remember correctly, they were actually here on vacation at the beach, and they were headed home uh that day to go back home to Texas, and they stopped by the tool cell and they had such a great time. You know, Liz, his wife, was really, really kind and nice and talkative. So sweet. And uh he bought all kinds of stuff, you know. He he he took a bunch of stuff back home with him, and then not long after they got back home, I believe they emailed Abby and said, Hey, we are uh really interested in the Victor lathe. Um, I believe, if I remember correctly, Jason was wanting to kind of set up his own dream machine shop at home and get some machines.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, because his son is learning. Yeah, which is amazing.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

I I believe she told me that they had some money saved for something else.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

And she wanted to help give him this.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

And I think that is about the coolest thing.

SPEAKER_01

Yep. Absolutely. So we we made a deal on the Victor. Um and after we did the second tool sale, which was the following uh weekend, and I no, we we made a video after that, kind of showing what was left in the shop. And he saw that video, or they did, and then they reached out again and said, Hey, we we really, really want to buy the dual mill. We see that it's still available and we'd really like to buy it. And um I was I was asking four thousand dollars for the dual, and they were honest and said, We can't, we we just can't afford that. And uh so we negotiated probably for about a week and went back and forth, and we were able to land on a comfortable number that was good for them, that was good for us, and on top of that, I went ahead and threw in the power matic drill press on top of that because they really wanted that as well.

SPEAKER_00

Which I also wanted to put in our living room.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, Abby wanted to keep that one as well. That was the only one, that power matic was the only one that I can't. She was she was she was like, I really want that. I want that for our living room. I want to, I was like, Well, I was gonna sell it. I I don't need this drill press. And so the next day I'm like, Do you want me to like keep the drill press? Because I was trying to sell it, and she's she assured me, no, it's okay, you can you can let it go. So, anyway, Jason and Liz really wanted the drill press as well. So we ended up settling on a price for the Victor, the Dual, and the PowerMatic. But basically, I just said you guys can have the PowerMatic. I was asking $600 for it.

SPEAKER_00

They get to stay together.

SPEAKER_01

You have three of my dad's original machines that are going to stay together in the same shop. And I love that I did not ever think that that was gonna happen.

SPEAKER_00

I didn't either.

SPEAKER_01

So uh Liz and Jason had to rent a trailer to come pick the machines up. We had to rent a forklift for the day to be able to pick that because our our forklift is only rated for 3,500 pounds, and the victor weighs about 4,500 pounds. So we had to rent a forklift for the day. Um and they were already making the trip all the way here and back. So we it was the it was the best decision. Put everything on that trailer, let them take that, and they're gonna live a new life in Texas uh where they're gonna have their own little machine shop at home, and it's fantastic being a part of that story.

SPEAKER_00

These when we put the machines on the trailer, that whole experience was it was a beautiful, beautiful moment.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, it was.

SPEAKER_00

We had their family was there, and then we had several other guys that had contacted Adam and wanted some of the things uh left that was left in the tool sale. It was all people who appreciated what was happening, yeah, they helped. It was a beautiful, beautiful moment that I am so glad that I got to be a part of.

SPEAKER_01

Yes, absolutely. I I couldn't agree with you more. We had scheduled uh so the Saturday that late Jason and Liz uh could come and pick up the machine, the the Victor and the dual. Um we went ahead and made that a day for the other people that were interested in coming. So the the other folks that showed up is you have Dwayne from Forgotten Spindles. If you guys don't know him, check him out. He's on Instagram. I do not think he has a YouTube, and I don't think he so he's on Instagram, let's just put it that. So uh Forgotten Spindles, Dwayne, his buddy Cooper, they're they're best buddies, they do all this stuff together as well. He came with them, and then also uh Philip from Magic City Tool. It's Philip and Amy from Magic City Tool. Now he is on uh YouTube, he has a YouTube channel where he's been recently restoring a GE Shaper like ours. Uh so anyway, all those fellows wanted to come and buy some tools, so we decided okay, we're uh let's get together that Saturday. And uh we all met at like seven o'clock that morning, everybody was there, and it was a group of like-minded people, they all had the same vision, the same passion. Dwayne Cooper and um Philip were all there to buy tools, and because they already have experience with loading and moving machines, everybody jumped in and helped out, and it was so wonderful. You know, we had the forklift there, so I had it, I had the Victor all staged and ready to lift properly, and uh the guys were there, so we all worked together to get the machines on the trailer. The the dual mill, they helped make sure that we had all that strapped good so that it was level. We got that on there, we put the drill press on, and then uh they especially uh Dwayne and Cooper jumped up on that trailer and helped Jason get all those machines strapped down, and they probably spent I'd say an hour uh getting all those machines strapped down properly, and they had no problem helping out because that's the kind of stuff they love doing, you know, they love old machines and they they like helping people out. We're all we're all kind of in this together, so it was a really good group of people. Uh Philip was the same way, you know, he was there helping us, making sure everything was loaded up, and we just all worked together. And then once the machines were loaded up and strapped down, they all came in and started doing their shopping, and it and it was fantastic, and it was just a really, really great day.

SPEAKER_00

Um it was one of my favorite days that we've had.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, we had it, we had a really good day. Uh, and they all bought some stuff, and um Dwayne ended up, Duane and Cooper, they ended up buying literally a truckload of tools. So we made a deal on nearly all of the taper shank drills, all of the reamers, both hand and machine reamers, and then all of the milling cutters as well.

SPEAKER_00

Thank you for taking those off of our yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_01

So um Dwayne bought some vises, man. He bought all kinds of stuff, and he had a he had a Ram 1500 that he that he brought, and he instantly regretted. He goes, Man, I got a dually, I should have brought that. Because that truck, it was like it was running on the bump stops, it was so it was so weighed down. But he made it back safely, and he's got some videos on his Instagram showing the tooling that he got. And uh, same with Philip, you know, he came and he bought a bunch of stuff too, and it was great uh having them in the shop, and we just we just had a really good time. And I think we finally got out of there about two o'clock that afternoon, yeah, and and was ready to relax. So uh we've we've done good on clearing out the shop. We still have some stuff in there, and uh just this week Dwayne has he's been messaging me and said, Hey, I'd really like to make a deal with you on everything that's left in there that you're wanting to sell as far as the machine shop stuff. So I think we're gonna go ahead and do that. We're gonna make a package deal, and him and Cooper are gonna come and they're they're gonna come and they're just gonna load up and try to get the rest of it off our hands.

SPEAKER_00

After we posted the video of what was left, I had people, you know, we had people send us emails if they wanted something. I it took me weeks to get through everything. We had thousands of emails. I mean, I was not expecting that. Like I just wasn't, but I tried to answer every person. And if I did not answer you, I apologize.

SPEAKER_01

But well, there was a lot of there was a lot of emails where people were asking for very specific little things, and a lot of those specific little things we didn't have. But you know, I I wanted to focus on what we had, what we showed in the video, what was for sale, and um, and we've had a lot of people interested. We've actually got some of the big ticket items, the heavy stuff, uh, here in the shop that we still need to get a um you know price on for shipping because they're heavy, you know, truck freight.

SPEAKER_00

Shipping is stupid right now.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, it is. So everybody keeps going up on the rate.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, they do, and it's I feel so bad for people because they want to buy something that the shipping costs more than the the item they're buying.

SPEAKER_01

Yep.

SPEAKER_00

It's just ridiculous, but it's that's out of our hands, but I still hate it for everybody.

SPEAKER_01

Some of that stuff was priced to sell at the tool sale. It was really stuff that you needed to show up with your truck or your car and buy it and take it home with you. Some of the stuff was priced, you know, and it makes me think that there was uh, you know, there was a there was a few people that left some negative comments about the pricing. And if you were there, and anybody that attended the tool sale would tell you, you had this stuff priced great. Yeah, and that's exactly what we did. We tried to price it to where we weren't just giving it away, but we wanted to move it. We wanted to get it out of the shop, and we tried to price everything less than whatever a market value would have been on that that item. And some stuff we had to kind of like really dig into research, some stuff we had no idea.

SPEAKER_00

That entire shop, both sides, completely full, completely. And I you and I touched every single piece in there, probably more than one time, just pricing it and arranging it and organizing it. My parents came, they helped us price everything. We did that for what two days.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, we we spent two days pricing.

SPEAKER_00

Had a price on it pretty much, and it was a lot of work.

SPEAKER_01

That was a lot of work, and that's that's something that some people don't really think about. But if you're gonna have a tool sale, you really have to price things because if you do not, you're gonna have a hundred people constantly asking you, hey, how much do you want? How much do you want for this? How much do you want for that? So we put the effort in because we spent two solid days. We bought some tags and we went ahead and wrote the price on it, tagged it, and that helped out a lot because there was a lot of things like going back that people would ask, say, how much are you asking for this? I'm like, I don't remember, I gotta go look at the tag. And thankfully the tag would be on there.

SPEAKER_00

Some people got some really good deals on a lot of things. There was a lot of people that there were some very high-ticket items up there that both of us were like, Yep, but we don't want to ship it to someone, so okay. And it, you know, but it it was it was great.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, we had a we had a great, we had a great tool sale. And the people that were there, it was the same thing. It was it was wonderful.

SPEAKER_00

Yes.

SPEAKER_01

We didn't have anybody there that wasn't having a good time. Seriously.

SPEAKER_00

People went around, they they they said they had to walk around like 16 times, you know, because there was so much stuff to see. Yeah, and I mean, even him and I later, uh, after that first day, we were like, no one looked under the tables. No one.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, nothing under the table sold.

SPEAKER_00

Nothing, almost nothing. And we had so much stuff under there.

SPEAKER_01

So there was a bin, there was a big old plastic bin that we ended up calling the junk bin. Yeah, and it was gonna be it was the intentions of people to go through it and maybe offer a dollar per thing, and nobody even looked in it, and that was for two tool sales. I ended up taking that bin and I dumped it into the trash can because I'm like, I'm not screwing with this stuff.

SPEAKER_00

I did pull some things out of it for donation, so I didn't tell you that, but I did do that.

SPEAKER_01

It wasn't stuff that really made a difference, it's just random stuff. That's all it was.

SPEAKER_00

But there was a lot of wrenches.

SPEAKER_01

There's still a lot of wrenches there. So I think Dwayne and Cooper's gonna end up with a bunch of them wrenches. I was really surprised because some of them wrenches are like very, very old, antique, outdated wrenches that never really made it. And I got a little box of them there, and only a few of those things sold. So maybe that was just me collecting them because I liked them. I was thinking people were gonna load up on those things.

SPEAKER_00

There are some cool things that are left in there that are antiques, and I will be we'll be selling those probably separately. Yeah, like those really cool um, it's like a dolly. Those things are so cool. Nobody looked at those. I I don't that I noticed.

SPEAKER_01

It's like a big pry bar that's got the wheels on it.

SPEAKER_00

I I remember buying those.

SPEAKER_01

I I remember Yeah, we got those when we were antiquing. Yeah, I still got those. So me and Dwayne's probably gonna make a deal on everything left in that shop.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Yep.

SPEAKER_00

Well, it's been a great experience.

SPEAKER_01

It has. It's been a good experience. We still have uh more to move, uh more to clean out, but we're we're slowly taking it off. And now when we look in there, it's looking like okay, we're finally making some good progress right here. Uh because whenever we whenever Dwayne comes back and and gets the rest of the tooling that that is there, um most of that stuff's gonna be gone. And then uh some of the stuff that was on the welding shop side, that not necessarily tooling, but just stuff, we're probably just gonna donate that. We'll take it down to waterfront rescue and just let them have it, you know. Uh the valuable stuff we'll keep because some of the smaller things, you know, is stuff that we'll keep here, and we'll end up putting it on uh eBay store or our website. That's something that we've been wanting to do too, is uh put some of the stuff on the on our website, which is what we're gonna end up doing. We still have several of the bench vices, the collectible bench vises, and we'll end up having some of those on the website for whenever somebody decides that they want one of them.

SPEAKER_00

Yep, agreed.

SPEAKER_01

Yep.

SPEAKER_00

What do you think is considered classic rock?

SPEAKER_01

For me personally, when I think the term classic rock, I think back to the 70s era.

SPEAKER_00

So I was gonna put music on for the tool sale, and I went on Apple and I'm like, oh well, they don't want to listen to my playlist. Lots of Taylor Swift and Amos Lee. So I'm like, I'll put on a classic rock because that's the age of all these people, and they're gonna like that. I put it on a playlist, you know what was playing. It was Nirvana. It was Nirvana and I remember that Lincoln Park. I love Lincoln Park. I I like the music from that time. That is not classic rock, is it?

SPEAKER_01

I think it's I think it's the time that you're in. Uh when you ask a question, is that classic rock? No, we don't think of that as classic rock. That's just that's rock, rock and roll, that's hard rock that we grew up listening to.

SPEAKER_00

I mean the Eagles, Bob Seeger.

SPEAKER_01

That's classic.

SPEAKER_00

That is classic rock. I Fleetwood Mac. I love Fleetwood Mac. You just I was just like, oh my god, I'm off. I was offended. And I'm not trying to take anything away from 90s rock.

SPEAKER_01

No, we love 90s rock. We love 90s and 2000s. That's what I grew up listening to.

SPEAKER_00

It's just that if you're gonna call it classic rock when I was a kid, then it's still classic rock.

SPEAKER_01

I think it needs to be defined further. Like it does. If you're gonna call it classic, you should say classic 90s rock, classic 2000s rock. Correct. Uh, you know, I I don't know. I I think people are having to invent terms out there, and and I don't keep up with music anymore, so I don't know. But I I thought that was funny. It just it bugs it. If you put it on classic and they're over there playing Lincoln Park, you know?

SPEAKER_00

Again, I love Lincoln Park, not knocking it, but I it's not classic rock. All right, so let's move on to the update on the drill indexes.

SPEAKER_01

Okay, yeah. All right. Uh, you want me to jump in?

SPEAKER_00

I love the blue.

SPEAKER_01

We have a couple here on the table that are fresh new colors available right now on the website. We have this really nice looking blue. We also have this is a color that we just kind of punted with. Orange.

SPEAKER_00

Aburn orange.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

It's actually in this uh is that the that's really kind of more Florida Gator situation.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, is that the Gator's color? A little bit.

SPEAKER_00

But that's we're gonna go with Auburn Orange.

SPEAKER_01

So we have blue and orange, new colors on the website, but we also have purple, which I think has been probably the most popular color.

SPEAKER_00

I did not see that coming.

SPEAKER_01

And I and this is probably one of my favorite colors as well. I really love the red and the and the purple. It just that purple just looks really, really nice.

SPEAKER_00

I want to create a drill index that is for late for the ladies. And I told him I gotta get the purple because look how pretty it is. And then everybody ended up loving that. I I did not think that a bunch of uh guys were gonna necessarily want that, but it is beautiful. The color is gorgeous.

SPEAKER_01

It really is. Well, I'm I'm waiting on you to design that the for the ladies, if you will, and whatever you come up with, we'll we'll machine it. I gotta get with Kevin. It'll be like a special, it'll be the Abbey's version. Uh, one of the things that I wanted to point on that we wanted to talk about was we have quite a few of these purples in stock right now, listed under scratch and dent. And I don't know if this video, if you're gonna be able to see it here on this video, but right on the end of that, right on the very tip of the radius, there's a dent. And then on the top, what I call the racetrack, you can see it dented up there as well. This particular box of drill indexes, when they were being shipped back from anodizing. I feel like whoever was handling it at UPS, I know there's many of them that handle them, took our box and completely dropped it on the end, and everyone on that side put a dent in there. Yep. Now, how every single one got smashed like that, I have no idea. And and it and we were using we we buy the heavy-duty boxes from U-line, it's it's like the middle heavy duty. There's one level up that's even thicker. I'm thinking we're gonna go ahead and go to those boxes. But one of the things that we have to work on as uh business owners here is we're gonna have to come up with a better way of shipping these to and from the anodizing. Ideally, what we need is some kind of container that's got dividers in it that each one of these things can go down inside that's protected on all sides, that can close it up and protect it from things hitting it and being dropped like that. I haven't, it's one of those things, it's like when do you find time to do it? I just haven't really spent the time figuring that out, but is it is on our task of things that we need to work on is trying to come up with a better transport system, some kind of box uh that we can put these guys in. And we also decided to ship. Them UPS because uh the first time we shipped them out we did use truck freight and it was pretty expensive. Truck freight, it was it was a lot less expensive to just box these up and send them up in two boxes.

SPEAKER_00

John warned us when John Saunders was in our shop, he said you have to treat everything like they like the people delivering it are gonna stand on top of a five-story building and slam it into the ground.

SPEAKER_01

He was 100% right. He was because when he was here in this shop, uh they were visiting, it was late last summer. Him and and uh the family was here, and he was standing right over there, and he had one in his hand, and he used it as an example. He goes, Hold this up five foot, package it up, drop it five foot. He says, if it doesn't damage it from that, then you should be okay. Uh so you know he learned from experience.

SPEAKER_00

And so have we.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, absolutely. So, anyway, if you want your scratch and dent, we got these uh reduced for the the cost there because of the dent on the side, and some of them aren't as bad as this one here. I picked one out that was a dent a little bit heavier, some of them have just a very slight amount of ding there. Um, but check them out if that doesn't bother you. These the scratch and dents are perfect to have out in the shop, have it over on the machine or on your toolbox toolbox and uh and use them.

SPEAKER_00

So and we do actually have extra uh drill sets this time. Uh so if you bought a drill index before and you are interested in adding a set of drills, just send me an email, info at abomb79.com.

SPEAKER_01

Absolutely. We'd be glad to uh uh put one in your hands for your for your ABOM79 drill index.

SPEAKER_00

Let's talk about IMTS. We are going absolutely and I am so excited.

SPEAKER_01

I am too. It's gonna be a good trip. Yep, we we've got a lot of stuff planned, and uh, I'm really excited that we're we're kind of looking at the IMTS trip. Like it's gonna be a little bit of a break for us. We're gonna take a couple of weeks off. Uh, we're gonna make a out of a road trip. So we're gonna road trip up to Chicago. Yes, we are. And we're gonna road trip back and try to get in some adventures uh along the way, and we're really looking forward to that. But we're gonna have a busy week there at IMTS as well.

SPEAKER_00

We have some very cool industrial things planned for our trip up and back. Yep, and uh we'll be making videos of those because they're gonna be exciting.

SPEAKER_01

Yep, we're we'll probably have um a couple of videos for A-Bomb 79, and then we may even have something for A-Bomb Adventures as well.

SPEAKER_00

We will. I uh okay, so so this year uh IMTS it's in Chicago, it always is at the McCormick Center. Uh it's the week of September 14th, and um we are gonna be in a couple of booths this year. We would love for you guys to stop by if you're gonna be at IMTS. Come say hey to us, come shake Adam's hand.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, we'd love to have you come by and um and visit. So we've got a few meet and greets. We do.

SPEAKER_00

So Monday, go ahead.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, well, I know you've got the notes because I'd I haven't really been able to keep in my mind exactly when we're gonna be meeting, but go ahead and uh tell everybody the about these meet and greets that we have planned.

SPEAKER_00

All right, so Monday is an open day for us. We're just gonna be walking around the show. I think you're gonna actually be shopping for a new machine, perhaps. Um September 15th, uh it's a Tuesday. We're gonna be in the Miltronix booth uh from one to two. And um, I believe they'll be doing a demo on the drill index.

SPEAKER_01

Yes, they are. I'm excited about that.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Uh so my pal Steve Sherman, he's gonna be there uh at the Miltronix booth all week long. And uh one of the machining demos that they're going to be showing there at the show is the ABOM 79 drill index.

SPEAKER_00

And that's one of the reasons why we did blue, too. That that was a uh kind of a nod for uh Miltronics, too.

SPEAKER_01

So yeah, they're they're supposed to have a I believe it's a Cobot there uh on demo. They're gonna be showing the Cobot uh loading and unloading stock, sweet, including a drill index. Now I don't know how many they're gonna be running, but they are gonna be set up and doing some demos on this throughout the week. And the other thing that I was gonna point out there as well is that uh Miltronix is gonna is going to have five of these blue drill indexes with the drills that I believe they're gonna be doing a drawing each day and giving one away. So make sure you come by Miltronix and check that out.

SPEAKER_00

So that again is Tuesday, September 15th from 1 to 2. Um on September 16th, uh Wednesday, we're gonna be at Master Fluids. Uh we love them. So we're gonna be there at 11 a.m. And I think we're gonna uh have a meet and greet there as well and uh do some interviews and that kind of thing in the booth.

SPEAKER_01

Yes, uh yep, we're gonna be there visiting, so we'd love to have you come by. Uh it'd be a perfect time to talk to Master Fluid about coolant solutions, you know, coolant needs. And I'm not gonna give it away. No, don't, but but I am working on something here in the shop that uh we're gonna be providing at Master Fluid to give away. So we're gonna have we'll have more on that later. I haven't started it yet, so I don't want to kind of give it away, but we are gonna have some.

SPEAKER_00

You have started it, they're just not finished.

SPEAKER_01

Well, we're going to machine something that we're gonna be giving away to and it's not a drill index. Nope, something different.

SPEAKER_00

So that's exciting, and then we you have another thing that you have created that we will hopefully be giving away on Thursday, September 17th. We're gonna be in the Kaiser booth.

SPEAKER_01

That's right.

SPEAKER_00

We also love Kazer, so 10 to noon is uh is where we'll be on Thursday.

SPEAKER_01

Yep, so same thing with uh Kazer compressors. I have something that I'm going to be machining, and it's gonna be giveaway items, you know.

SPEAKER_00

Not a drill index.

SPEAKER_01

Something that we machined on our Miltronix, and uh if you come by, you can take one of them with you. So make sure you come by and visit us there as well. It's gonna be uh we tried to spread them out so that they weren't all on the same day, and uh hopefully we'll be able to have have you guys come by and visit us at our meet and greets.

SPEAKER_00

I love all the people we run into. We never really know who's gonna end up being there, so I look forward to it every time.

SPEAKER_01

Yep. I always end up running into uh people in the industry that that I know but I never actually met. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

You know, you talk to them on the phone, you've talked to them over email, you talk to them over Instagram, but but never in person.

SPEAKER_01

And and I'm excited about it too because I I really want to go to this IMTS and I'm hoping that we have enough time that we can freely walk through this show and check out machines, not just machines. I'm look, I'm like, I'm trying to learn more about work holding. So I want to go around and see everybody's work holding solutions and you know, different things like that. And uh I really want to have enough time that we can kind of check that out. I do want to look at machines as well. I I do have my my sights set on some machines in the you know, little little distant future. But uh I want I'm hoping that some of the manufacturers that I'm interested in looking at are gonna be there. Um and and I'm gonna say this, it's not it's not necessarily a machining center. I'm looking at some other stuff.

SPEAKER_00

Yes. Well, the show is an intimidating size, it is giant.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, and uh if you've never been, try to give yourself a couple of days because I mean there's like I think there's three separate buildings, three different halls.

SPEAKER_00

You are gonna get your steps in that week.

SPEAKER_01

You'll do a lot of walking, a lot of looking. There's a lot of stuff to see, a lot of really cool stuff to see. Usually all of the big names in manufacturing are there, and even the ones that you don't know are there. And um, work holding, cutting, uh tool holding, and everything in between. That's right. It's all there. So it's gonna be a great show, and I'm excited about looking forward to it.

SPEAKER_00

We should be getting our passes soon, and uh, I'm gonna create us a little map, I think, to uh to be to get around and see everybody that we want to see. So I'm really looking forward to this. I'm glad that we're going this year.

SPEAKER_01

Yep, I'm excited about it as well. So we hope that you can attend and uh we really hope that you guys can come to our meet and greets.

SPEAKER_00

Yes, please come say hi. We would love that. And uh we're gonna have stickers and everything, so uh if you run into us, ask for a sticker. I'll get it. Absolutely. I'm gonna be carrying that stuff on my back, so I'm happy to get rid of it.

SPEAKER_01

Yep, absolutely. Yeah, I I I don't always think about it whenever we're stopping, we talk to somebody, but if you do stop and talk to us, just say, hey, can I get a sticker? Because we'll have it in the bag.

SPEAKER_00

That's right. Well, I think that this is gonna wrap up our first our second season of the A-Bomb 79 pipe. First episode of the second season. And uh, and yeah, we are gonna do a little bit different uh format in some of these, and we're we're really looking forward to trying that. So be patient with us as we uh experiment and learn and try.

SPEAKER_01

Absolutely. And uh yeah, we're gonna keep them coming and keep you guys informed on everything. So we have a lot of really good stuff in the pipeline, good jobs, good projects, and uh trying to finish out our our uh shop clean out as well.

SPEAKER_00

More machines to move.

SPEAKER_01

So I guess we'll wrap this one up, sign off for this episode, and uh we hope that you guys enjoyed listening to us. Thank you for thanks for coming along and uh joining us on the A Bomb 79 podcast.

SPEAKER_00

Bye everybody.

SPEAKER_01

We'll see you later.