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PFG Live — 150 episodes

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PFG.Live 2026-0607: Less NFG, More PFG - Let's Do This Annually

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PFG.Live 2026-0531: Week Of Welds, Nuts And Moly Rods, Oh My!

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PFG.Live 2026-0517: Seasonal Changes In The Shop

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PFG.Live 2026-0503: SLA Resin Washing - Why IPA?

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PFG.Live 2026-0419: Fix Broken Loops

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PFG.Live 2026-0412: Kids Learning The Skillz & Making Robots

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PFG.Live 2026-0329: Very Helpful Eager Interns

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PFG.Live 2026-0322: De-Magnetization: That's Hysterical!

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PFG.Live 2026-0315: Drawings & Schematics Are Graphic Novels

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PFG.Live 2026-0308: Troubleshooting: Why it Won't Stay Shot!

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PFG.Live 2026-0222: Safety Margin Is Invisible

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PFG.Live 2026-0208: Snowpocolypse - Survived

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PFG.Live 2026-0118: Engineer v. Machinist: Can't We Just Talk?

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PFG.Live 2026-0111: Magnets, Microwaves, And Metals

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PFG.Live 2026-0104: HNY 2026! How Do You Track Goals?

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PFG.Live 2025-1228: COOLANT: Chemistry And Economics

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PFG.Live 2025-1214: Two Guys And A Pencil No. 2

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PFG.Live 2025-1207: 3D Scanning! From IRL to STL

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PFG.Live 2025-1123: Designing An Optical Flat Measurement Station

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PFG.Live 2025-1116: The Answer Is Always 1 2 3

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PFG.Live 2025-1109: Hand-Lapping With Arthur Rightus

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PFG.Live 2025-1102: Making Haste Slowly With 17-Pound Laps

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PFG.Live 2025-1026: Programming Automated Systems

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PFG.Live 2025-1012: The Robots Provide

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PFG.Live 2025-1005: (Iterate (Iterate (Iterate))) - Are We There Yet?

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PFG.Live 2025-0928: While My Compressor Gently Weeps

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PFG.Live 2025-0921: Home Assistant: Measure And Automate!

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PFG.Live 2025-0914: Dessicants DELETED, Filament Still Dry!

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PFG.Live 2025-0907: Aperiodic Non-Chiral Monotile Lap Grooves

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PFG.Live 2025-0824: 3DP: PETG As Support Interface For PLA

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PFG.Live 2025-0817: OK, OK, I Bought One: The Bambu H2D

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PFG.Live 2025-0810: Cautious Setup Means Easy Production

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PFG.Live 2025-0803: Time-Sharing Equipment?

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PFG.Live 2025-0727: When Is Randomness Your Friend?

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PFG.Live 2025-0720: Easy as 1,2,3! Or is it?

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PFG.Live 2025-0713: From Making Things To Making Money

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PFG.Live 2025-0629: Use Up The Tooling. Wear Out The Machines.

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PFG.Live 2025-0622: Hey... Can We Torque? - Why We Measure It

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PFG.Live 2025-0615: We're Gonna Need Bigger ... Everything

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PFG.Live 2025-0608: Adam Balogh, Laney College!

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PFG.Live 2025-0601: When P1 = R1: The Cost Of Prototyping

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PFG.Live 2025-0504: Your Lathe Is Killing Your Wifi - Let's Fix It

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PFG.Live 2025-0427: Brandon from Inheritance Machining

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PFG.Live 2025-0406: Polyvinyl Acetate: It's Not Just For Elmer

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PFG.Live 2025-0330: A Scalable 3DP Farming Module

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PFG.Live 2025-0323: Standards And Calibration In The Small Shop

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PFG.Live 2025-0316: Big Machine, Tiny Tools

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PFG.Live 2025-0309: Shop Organization: Pieces, Paths, Power

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PFG.Live 2025-0302: Countersinks: Oh, What A Relief It Needs!

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PFG.Live 2025-0216: Soldering: Alloys, Eutectics, Fluxes

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PFG.Live 2025-0209: The Problem Process No. 1

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PFG.Live 2025-0202: Cyanoacrylate Management

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PFG.Live 2025-0119: Collet What You Will: The Many Types

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PFG.Live 2025-0112: Focus Is Critical

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PFG.Live 2025-0105: Laser Lessons Learned

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PFG.Live 2024-1215: Lasers: CO2, Fiber, Diode... How To Choose

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PFG.Live 2024-1207: Shop Batteries We Need, Prefer, And Avoid

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PFG.Live 2024-1124: Is Hard-Milling Hard?

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PFG.Live 2024-1117: The Many Lubricants In The Shop

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PFG.Live 2024-1103: Magnetism and Aluminum: Don't Panic.

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PFG Live 2024-1027: Lapping: Finally Making Flat Mirrors!

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PFG.Live 2024-1013: First Humidity Data Points

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PFG.Live 2024-1006: Got Drawings?

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PFG.Live 2024-0922: Parameterizationalism

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PFG.Live 2024-0915: Special Guest - Tom Zelickman of Tormach

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PFG.Live 2024-0911: SPECIAL EDITION: Tuck at IMTS!

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PFG.Live 2024-0908: Peel Grinding Success for Lapzetti Plates!

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PFG.Live 2024-0825: Bambu Filaments Shakeup! PETG-HF?

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PFG.Live 2024-0818: Two Guys and a Pencil

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PFG.Live 2024-0811: Not-So-Free Willy - with John Saunders

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PFG.Live 2024-0804: Fanuc, Haas, and Batteries... Oh My!

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PFG.Live 2024-0728: Special Guest - James Clough

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PFG.Live 2024-0714: Prototyping Precision Paper Punchers with Adam Demuth

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PFG.Live 2024-0630: Killing the Elephant's Foot

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PFG.Live 2024-0623: Solopreneurship: Stay On Target!

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PFG.Live 2024-0616: Housing Design for Extreme Environments

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PFG.Live 2024-0609: DAMTEE and DAMKEEZ: A Study In P1

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PFG.Live 2024-0602: Catching Up With Tom Lipton

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PFG.Live 2024-0526: Kish and Moly: A True Story

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PFG.Live 2024-0519: Printing Grimsmo Bearing Cages: P11 Wins!

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PFG.Live 2024-0505: Over-automation in the Small Shop

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PFG.Live 2024-0428: The Joy Of Unnecessary Precision

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PFG.Live 2024-0421: The Expensive Stuff Is Cheaper

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PFG.Live 2024-0414: P1 is Life

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PFG.Live 2024-0407: Storms, Blackouts, Earthquakes, Eclipses!

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PFG.Live 2024-0331: ToolMakers Flat Followup

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PFG.Live 2024-0317: Of Clock Springs And Toolmakers Flats

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PFG.Live 2024-0310: Crash Recovery: Just Breathe

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PFG.Live 2024-0303: I Didn't Expect The Backlash!

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PFG.Live 2024-0218: Restoring and Using Tools

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PFG.Live 2024-0211: Decluttering with Mental Money

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PFG.Live 2024-0204: The MIT LMP Shop: A Student's First Chips

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PFG.Live 2024-0128: Chattering About Damping And Resonance

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PFG.Live 2024-0121: The Many Aluminum Alloys

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PFG.Live 2024-0114: Tom Lipton

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PFG.Live 2024-0107: What Is The Ideal CNC Cycle Time?

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PFG.Live 2023-1217: At Home With 460-Volt Machines

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PFG.Live 2023-1210: Self-Employment with Stefan Gotteswinter

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PFG.Live 2023-1203: Good First Effort

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PFG.Live 2023-1119: Undercomplicationalism

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PFG.Live 2023-1119: Tolerance is Money, Friend!

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PFG.Live 2023-1112: Very Flat ... Magnet?!

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PFG.Live 2023-1105: Non-linear Rails

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PFG.Live 2023-1029: Make 'em Think

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PFG.Live 2023-1022: I Wood If I Must

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PFG.Live 2023-1015: The One Year Sensor

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PFG.Live 2023-1008: Fixturing Weird Grinding Jobs

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PFG.Live 2023-1001: Surface Grinder Workflow with Adam Demuth

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PFG.Live 2023-0924: Further Feather Fiddling

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PFG.Live 2023-0917: Talking SHT4x: Secrets revealed!

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PFG.Live 2023-0910: Out With The Old!

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PFG.Live 2023-0903: Adam Balogh - Crushing It In Precision Machining Education

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PFG.Live 2023-0827: Registered Trademark! Why?

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PFG Live 2023-0820: Twisted Concentricity

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PFG Live 2023-0813: If it's crazy, and it works, then it's not crazy

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PFG Live 2023-0806: Calibrate The Elbow

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PFG Live 2023-0730: Getting Balanced... Finally

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PFG Live 2023-0723: Does Anybody Really Know the RH?

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PFG Live 2023-0716: The Required Epiphany

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PFG Live 2023-0709: Shipping, Drying and Heating

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PFG Live 2023-0625: A Tale of Two Lids

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PFG Live 2023-0618: Of Damping and Dampness

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PFG Live 2023-0611: Going Mobile! A Special Edition

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PFG Live 2023-0604: Does the Bambu X1C Solve a Problem?

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PFG Live 2023-0528: 3DP Abhors a Vacuum

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PFG Live 2023-0521: Are 3D Printers a Necessity Now?

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PFG Live 2023-0507: Aaron's New Majestic Tool

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PFG Live 2023-0430: 3D Printing for Machinists

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PFG Live 2023-0423: Contradictory Heat-Treating

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PFG Live 2023-0416: Boring Tools Aren't

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PFG Live 2023-0402: Insufficient Adequacy

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PFG Live 2023-0326: Spindles Shall, Toolposts Shant

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PFG Live 2023-0319: Titanium Tutelage

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PFG Live 2023-0312: Cylinders are Square

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PFG Live 2023-0226: Lapping Under Control

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PFG Live 2023-0219: Lipton. Renzetti. Strap in.

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PFG Live 2023-0212: Portable Heat Treating?

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PFG Live 2023-0205: Lapping Up Electrons

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PFG Live 2023-0129: The Eye of Flatosity

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PFG Live 2023-0122: Tom Lipton

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PFG Live 2023-0115: Lapping with Adam

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PFG Live 2023-0108: Cool Grinding, Hot Coolant

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PFG Live 2022-1218: Buying a new Surface Grinder

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PFG Live 2022-1211: Thermal Battleaxes

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PFG Live 2022-1204: Thermal Control?

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PFG IG Live 2022-0501: Stefan Gotteswinter

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PFG Live 2022-0424: Adam Balogh - Optical Measurements for Peanuts

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PFG Live 2022-0410: Lapping With Robin Renzetti

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PFG Live 2022-0306: Marv Groeb

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PFG IG Live 2022-0227: Adam Demuth