Lean Built: Manufacturing Freedom
Sep 28, 2026 · 32 min · 11 segments
What happens when your business grows to the point where you no longer know everything happening inside it? Jay and Andrew talk about the strange transition from doing everything yourself to building…
So we've been using quality chem for many, many years and it's been fine, but we always had those like those little minor irritations.
And I mean, kind of maybe literal irritations as far as like maybe skin issues or man, when we topped off a machine fresh, it had this out gassing off gassing that just was headache inducing that we would have to just run the pump for 24 hours straight coolant mist collectors running just to expose it to air then it was tolerable but and then it was frosting up all the windows and we didn't get a good response uh reply from from quality chem that we liked and so we just said all right well And if we're not going to get the help there, we're just going to swap it out.
So we're on this new SkyTech stuff from Blaser.
So far, so good.
It's easy on the skin, easy on the nose, smells decent.
And the performance.
Leaves my breath minty fresh.
That's right.
Yeah.
The one thing is that you use it's okay.
It's you use less of it.
It's a lower concentration than quality chem.
But the drum itself is probably 40% more expensive, but it should last you longer.
So we're trying it out.
One row of machines at a time.
It's tricky, really tough to switch brands.
Why? Well, there's so much.
We buy typically drums, like 55-gallon barrels, two at a time.
And to manage which machines are going to go offline because you need to clean it out and then bring it online.
And so if you could just say, oh, let's drain them at the end of the day and then fill them up, it doesn't work like that.
So we've been doing rows of machines.
We have five rows of machines.
And so we kind of do one row per week, moving all the work onto the other machines.
So yeah, little by little.
It's tricky.
So we've been using quality chem for many, many years and it's been fine, but we always had those like those little minor irritations.
And I mean, kind of maybe literal irritations as far as like maybe skin issues or man, when we topped off a machine fresh, it had this out gassing off gassing that just was headache inducing that we would have to just run the pump for 24 hours straight coolant mist collectors running just to expose it to air then it was tolerable but and then it was frosting up all the windows and we didn't get a good response uh reply from from quality chem that we liked and so we just said all right well And if we're not going to get the help there, we're just going to swap it out.
So we're on this new SkyTech stuff from Blaser.
So far, so good.
It's easy on the skin, easy on the nose, smells decent.
And the performance.
Leaves my breath minty fresh.
That's right.
Yeah.
The one thing is that you use it's okay.
It's you use less of it.
It's a lower concentration than quality chem.
But the drum itself is probably 40% more expensive, but it should last you longer.
So we're trying it out.
One row of machines at a time.
It's tricky, really tough to switch brands.
Why? Well, there's so much.
We buy typically drums, like 55-gallon barrels, two at a time.
And to manage which machines are going to go offline because you need to clean it out and then bring it online.
And so if you could just say, oh, let's drain them at the end of the day and then fill them up, it doesn't work like that.
So we've been doing rows of machines.
We have five rows of machines.
And so we kind of do one row per week, moving all the work onto the other machines.
So yeah, little by little.
It's tricky.
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