Pete Oxenham ✓
@peteoxenham · Los Angeles, CA · joined 16 Jun 2019
Machinist. Product @ Hadrian, fmr founder https://t.co/D5H1LTJr3D (acq by toolpath). Opinions my own and most likely wrong.
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pro tip: if you suspect a machining clip has been sped up to fake flex, just look at the chips
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incredible things can happen when you simply refuse to look at the ISO 13399 standard for a day https://t.co/q7a1WXxIwd
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there’s something so satisfying about purchasing a loss leader
god bless the costco wholesale corporation https://t.co/dHVPKrsP7X
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showed this to a boomer and he immediately bought three truckloads of lumber sight unseen https://t.co/KJMFJIWqI8
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All that said, my biggest takeaways are:
- Earn trust. When people stick out their neck for you, REFUSE to let them down.
- Working ridiculously hard is so freaking fun. I don't look back on this period fondly despite the challenges, I look back fondly because of them.
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@peteoxenham such a good story man. what a freaking roller coaster. i feel inspired 🏭
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@ScottyD63_ On Bill Selway: I never got the opportunity to meet and thank him, he passed in 2021. He changed my life by believing in some young crazy kid.
My story seems unique in the industry, but as it turns out, it was more of the rule than the exception when it comes to peop
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@ScottyD63_ More to that point. We forged a strong friendship during this. He got me a life-changing opportunity which I can never repay, but then became one of my closest friends through this and many other ventures.
Engineer <> Machinist relationships are the best :) https://t.
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Best part about that car who struggled through so much is that Scott @ScottyD63_ , who got me this PO, owns it now. Fresh motor. Better than ever. Full circle https://t.co/c9DnNBU1bj
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About the car - My poor E46 blew a head gasket and would overheat coming into work. I said f it, I live at the shop now. It only needs to get me 2min over to the gas station and back for air compressor diesel, just short enough so that it wouldn't overheat
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About the lathe - The Haas ST10Y is not really built for what we put it through, but man, that thing is a CHAMP.
It got to the point where sheet metal was falling off of it and I just said "put it in the pile, keep production running". We even crashed it twice and it took it like
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About the chips - As you can imagine, we were making a LOT of chips. We called and asked our recycler for 3-5 more bins and weekly pickups. They no-showed.
We filled every possible receptacle to the brim, so I had to say screw it, we can't stop, chips are going on the floor now h
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Our schedule was as follows:
5AM - John starts, takes over production
8AM - Donovan (assembler) starts
10AM - Ryan starts
6:00PM - Freight truck shipment of daily output
6:30PM - Ryan leaves, I run the shop until 5AM when I hand back off to John
Loop for ~3 months
Air mattress h
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The other was a trip. OP10 was on the lathe, then for OP20 they were held by straps for the horizontal to machine the front and back in one setup. Mind you, this was my first time running a horizontal so I was in the thick of it, machining in front of and behind the tombstone htt
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After plenty of drama, we were finally in production. On the lathe, we needed 23hr/day to meet prod goals. On the mill, it was something like 24.8hr. Basically - zero downtime.
We were running two parts in tandem. One of them, pretty basic. We could strip mill it to reduce https:
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As if we didn't have enough drama already, the battery that the Haas lathe needed to keep its memory alive died and the thing literally forgot who it was. The OEM battery is soldered to the board.
Dan Frank to the rescue again, we took a Haas battery replacement kit from the high
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Our whole suite was on 100A. The machine wants 250. On top of that, our air compressor died as soon as we brought the Enshu online.
At this point, there's no going back so I asked one of my guys to go to Herc and rent a diesel air compressor. That thing sat outside the next four
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Fast forward - Delivery Day! This thing is a freaking monster. Few problems - I'd never touched Fanuc and never run a horizontal, and we didn't have the power. We spent the next 4 days getting the machine set up into production. https://t.co/Z7q0pxJ5Ss
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Now financing.. I'm 23 with no credit. Last year's business revenue was less than this entire PO, and the machine is $350k. There's no way.
So, Keith called up Bill Selway, the top dog, told him my story, and Bill said "Deliver the machine. We'll finance it if we have to"
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I called my sales guy (shoutout Keith) and said "Hey man, I'm about to get a massive PO to make parts on a machine I don't have, and I need it yesterday."
Instead of calling me a reckless idiot (I was), he got to work and found me a machine.
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Arrive at Bird. Having never worked with a company this big, I'm super shaky and sweaty (I still get this way), but luckily Scott was there. Engineering approved! "When can you start production?"
I headed out to go wrestle with the question "how the heck do I make these now?"
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Packed everything in a suitcase and flew down. Checked my final prints and realized "oh crap, these need to be assembled".
Change of plans, Uber LAX>McMaster, McMaster>Starbucks for assembly
Here's a pic that a kind homeless guy took of me on the patio, for memories https://t.co/
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Being the saint that he is, Dan Frank replied "whatever you need", so I brought some material over and knocked out these parts. I'd never run 5ax before, but f it - lets go! https://t.co/dUTG192g8s
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He sent me some prints, and the deal was - deliver 20 assemblies, if engineering approves, you get a PO.
Crap - these are mill parts. I didn't have a mill, just a millturn.
So, I called up my old high school teacher and asked if I could hijack their machines after hours.
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October 2018 - My friend Scott posted on FB that he was looking for a CNC shop. I said "me!" and he told me I couldn't handle the volume (he was right).
Nevertheless I replied "when do you want me to start?" https://t.co/xIE7dHHXol
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The Bird Saga Tell-All: Here's the story of how I got my first $300k+ PO and turned my little race parts shop into a 24/7 CNC production facility (w/ pics!)
Story involves big risks, air mattresses, overloaded circuits, overfilled chip bins, A+ friends, and an industry legend.
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Against accounts of the same size
4 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown far beyond its own audience, and the audience reacts.
Median views1 668this account980median for 10K–100K
Reach, %16.37%this account3.51%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %3.00%this account1.92%median for 10K–100K
| Metric | This account | Median for 10K–100K | Ratio |
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| Median views per post | 1 668 | 980 | 1.70× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 16.37% | 3.51% | 4.66× |
| Engagement rate | 3.00% | 1.92% | 1.56× |
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Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
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Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
0.94%28 Sep
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2.37%3 Sep
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Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.92%.
What the audience does
Likes80.2%4 314 in total
Reposts2.2%119 in total
Replies2.4%128 in total
Quotes0.9%51 in total
Bookmarks14.2%766 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
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