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The Lone Machinists — 91 episodes

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Day 1: How the Hell Do You Program This Thing?

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Ep. 90: The IMTS Pregame

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Ep. 89: Everyone Wants a Willy

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Ep. 88: Scaling Without Losing Your Shit

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Ep. 87: If You Want Me to Do It, Pay Me Properly

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Ep. 86: Spindle Grippers and Questionable Decisions

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Ep. 85: Coolant, Calendars, and Counting Errors

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Ep. 84: Birthday Cake and Broken Machines

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Ep. 83: Nimble Gripper Has Entered the Chat

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Ep. 82: Reddit Is Mad Again

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Ep. 81: Teaching Engineers to Talk with Al Whatmough

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Ep. 80: Production Doesn't Care That You're Dying

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Ep. 79: Month-End Is a Contact Sport

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Ep. 78: Marketplace Finds and Questionable Decisions

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Ep. 77: Break Glass in Case of Feelings

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Ep. 76: The Billet Volcano Arms Race with Ben from Blackfox

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Ep. 75: CADing a Fence Like It's Aerospace

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Ep. 74: Death Pallet Stackers & Other OSHA Nightmares

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Ep. 73: Barnacles, Bandsaws & Bad Decisions

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Ep. 72: Someone Let The Machinists Near The Kitchen Equipment

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Ep. 71: The World's Cutest Vice (and Other Lies)

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Ep. 70: How to Build a Business by Accident with Titan Ring Designs

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Ep. 69: Insert Innuendo Here

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The Lone Machinists Ep. 68: Print It, Stick It, Break It, Fix It

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Ep. 67: One More Machine Will Fit (Trust Me)

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Ep. 66: Fusion Executes Order 66

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Ep. 65: If You Can't Make It Perfect, Make It Adjustable

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Ep. 64: Sausage Polishers & Shop Logic

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Ep. 62: The Internet Is Forever (And So Are Our Bad Ideas)

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Ep. 62: RAID 1 and Pray

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Ep. 61: Schrodinger's Guest Part 2

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Ep. 60: Schrodinger's Guest

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Ep. 59: Designed for Quadruple-Jointed Dwarf Mechanics

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Ep. 58: The Seizure-Inducing Delivery Sensor

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Ep. 57: Just Another Brick in the Wall

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Ep. 56: How Hard Can It Be? (Famous Last Words)

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Ep. 55: Machining, MacBooks, and Mild Panic

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Ep. 54: Cheap as Beans and Expensive as Time

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Ep. 53: We Found the Problem (It Was Us)

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Ep. 52: Everything Is a Packaging Problem (So We Bought Lasers)

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Ep. 51: Horsepower Is a Lie (And Other Garage Shop Myths)

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Ep. 50: The Proteum Protocol: Inside Dylan's Machining Mind

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Ep. 49: One Spring to Rule Them All.

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Ep. 48: German Precision & Other Nightmares

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Ep. 47: Probe It Till It Works

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Ep. 46: The Spindle Witch Project

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Ep. 45: The Great Coolant Massacre of '25

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Ep. 44: Oil Beats Coolant, Fight Me

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Ep. 43: Victory, vengeance, and very questionable tooling decisions

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Ep. 42: Tighten It 'Til It Feels Expensive

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Ep. 41: Jamie and the Hallucinating AI

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Ep. 40: Fine, I'll Do It Myself with Noddy's Performance

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Ep. 39: Hit Me With Your Best Cut

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Ep. 38: I love the smell of a retrofit in the morning.

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Ep. 37: Dare to DIY

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Ep. 36: Don't Panic: 4th Axis & FedEx Fails

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Ep. 35: Live, Laugh, Crash

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Ep. 34: Siemens School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

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Ep. 33: Video killed the radio star!

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Ep.32: AMAZE AMAZE! You sleep, I watch

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Ep. 31: Scaling Up

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Ep. 30: Subtract This! With Jacob from Zonum Precision

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Ep. 29: The Art of Getting Screwed

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Ep. 28: Grindzilla

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Ep. 27: Tufnol: The Last Shaving

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Ep. 26: Harder, Better, Faster (Tails of Optimization)

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Ep. 25: Holy Shift, It's SIEMENS!

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Ep. 24: Hex Appeal!

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Ep. 23: Heat it up, Before you Go Go!

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Ep. 22: Parks and Retrofits

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Ep. 21: Interwebs: A New Hope

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Ep. 20: My Heart in a Vice with Joshua Firman

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Ep. 19: From Hot to Not: The Rise and Fall of Heat Shrink Holders

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Ep. 18: The Anchor Point

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Ep. 17: No more smoke signals

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Ep. 16: Oopsidizing - Why We Can't Have Nice Parts

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Ep. 15: Stir (welding) the Pot

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Ep. 14: Smoke Signals from the Workbench

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Ep. 13: Lock (tail)Stock and a 4th Axis

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Ep. 12: Screw It, Let's Do It!

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Ep. 11: Shear Madness

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Ep. 10: The Man, The Legend, Justin Gray!

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Ep. 9: Rough and Tumble

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Ep. 8: Always Double Tap

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Ep. 7: Probing the Rabbit Hole

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Ep. 6: Turning dreams into deadlines.

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Ep. 5: (Not) Staying on Topic

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Ep. 4: The Curt

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Ep. 3: The tools to a good shop.

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Ep 2: Machining by the seat of our pants.

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