Started work on the Plasmafire today. Ill be working on the gantry tomorrow 
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What’s a Plasmafire? CNC plasma table? Plasma gasifier? O.o
Its a CNC Table. Trying to get ready for January launch
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The Y axis gantry is complete. The track rollers added some bling too!! Worked out very well and it is very rigid, its going to be a tough machine!!
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Just throwing this out there if any of you are local or near the Muskegon Mi area. WIe are in need of a mechanical assembler I
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I’ll be right over…wish it was that easy
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i have basic experience… just need to learn some better english of course…
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A shameless bump back up to the top for attention.
The chance to on-hands work around gasifiers IS RARE and worth it.
Wear dark thick washable cotton. Or winter cold - wool outer.
Ha! You will grinder/welder burn lots of holes in poly-fleece! ( A mechanical assembler able to step-in as needs-must on light fabbing will be more useful appreciated than just a wrench-man)
Anybody still just talking within driving range should be jumping at this opertunity.
I DID with BenP 2009-12.
We are all on the road to better - just as long as we are hands-on DOing things. MattR, IS.
Steve Unruh
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Thanks for lookin out for us Steve!!!
We did fill this position much faster than I thought we would, I am completely amazed at the response we got from our Craigslist add. I was overwhelmed with email responses and between that and the first round of interviews I hardly had time to cancel the listing.
Hey Koen, I had google translate when I was in Italy it works great. Pretty cool how you can convert pictures too.
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i use translate now, same go’s for my gasifiers , it looks better after converted with that tool…
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Matt, Convert Italian pics into English pics? Just kidding, but what did you mean?
Pepe
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It can convert any text into english or any other language. If you are at a restaurant, it can convert the menu it uses the camera to do this and it does convert the picture. Its really wild how it does this. .
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I use it for instructions for some of our gear. It’s easier to figure out what they are saying when you read their native instructions compared to the in-gil-ish they translated it into.
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When I was visiting my brother in Beijing a while back (last year?), I had an app on my phone (“Pleco”, I believe) that could detect and translate Chinese characters from the camera in real-time. Of course, you could also point it at a tree and get “legible translations”, so who knows.
You can see some of the dead trees awaiting their fate. Combo of the last hurricane topping a few and the drought killing them off.
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Nice, should be good and dry perfect fuel. We will tear into the carb adaptor first thing. this makes the most sense where there could be a leak. First thing tomorrow is, we all will be doing payroll, we are moving to a service to do this. Im sure this will eat up a good part of our morning learning how to do this.
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Matt,
Not sure if you’ve tried this but QuickBooks makes payroll easy. I am able to do payroll for 14 employees in 30-60 minutes. That’s me, I stink behind a desk. My business partner can knock it out in 20-30 minutes. All that includes payroll, taxes and ACH deposits as well as physical checks. I just found out a payroll service can be expensive. 
Just my two cents.
I also understand being in the shop instead of the office.
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Yep, Im no longer on the floor any more. This came the first of the year and believe me I am forcing myself to do so. It just has to be this way and I know you can relate there; just cant run a company and work with in at the same time anymore.
Cool deal with the quick books, I have had all the accounting out sourced up until this point. I am now doing this currently on excel and will begin learn Quick Books 2016 this week. I have tutor coming in weekly for set-up and assistance in my learning. Once I learn this I may scrap the payroll service. Its not too bad it only cost me 30 bucks a week. But as I learn more on this side of the fence I may take that on too. I still have to do a good portion of the payroll anyways, I track a lot of stuff. I know exactly how much labor goes into any aspect of the components that make up the products. Lots has changed in just four weeks
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You need to watch those payroll companies. When you match the taxes of your employees, you only need to match State Unemployment on the first $9000 here in Texas, We’ve caught payroll companies that keep charging you after that $9000 and they pocket it. You really need to read the fine print.
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