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Jeff Flannery, I'm a journeyman pattern maker. Ben Anderson Global 14 years. Been a pattern maker total of 24 years. My day-to-day is a. Putting, tooling together and making sure everything's right, make sure it functions, make sure there's no snags or hang ups, and give the customer what they want. I'm the last person that sees product and my eyes are last one on it when it closes up, gets put on the truck, gets delivered to the customer, they open it up, they're seeing what I saw last time. Benching is polishing the tool, so either a the core will come out. Or the casting will come out. The first thing I'm doing is deburr the backside and make sure nothing sharp. Make sure all the chips out of the holes, make sure the threaded holes are tapped to the proper depth and then I will roll it over and do the same to the top. Break what edges we can on that, make sure the edges are supposed to stay sharp, stay sharp, Polish to the requirements of the customer, install vents and then we start building the tooling up from there as cast. It's got to be beautiful because what's coming off the face of the tooling, that's how you're going to see it on the car. They really want the tooling to be smooth, no defects. And basically a piece of jewelry and same thing when we were we've been getting into Diecast, they had the same kind of finish, the final products, what's coming out of the tooling. So that's got to be perfect. And that's we'll Polish it until it's perfect. And assembly, Obviously your inserts are benched and ready to go, everything's installed on them. And then now you starting to check fit to plates or make sure the. Any of your support posts and everything's going together and you start building up your injector plates. Make sure all your holes line up and you get your injector pins in. Most of our jobs have checkoff sheets like you know, is there any things in the cavity? Is there any Dings in the partings? Is all the bolts tight? Usually when the when the tooling's done completed, we'll have our project leader will come out and we have like our our checkoff sheets and we were literally go ahead and you know if it's a core box, we're putting the cover on the template, we're putting the cover on the blow plate, we're putting the cover on the lower. We're stroking. The injector plate and the lower. We're taking the measurement, make sure the the strokes what it needs to be on the injector plate and then the final stack U, make sure everything stacks U and you know it's going to be delivered the way it's supposed to be or how they're going to store it. Proper lifting rings if they need them on the job. When you go to a mold. Where you're checking, obviously you know the fit on that and if it's got coolant or air, you're checking the flow and you're checking the pressure, pressure gauge, your check each piece. Some customers want it recorded. Some customers just want you to say, Yep, we checked it. Basically at the end when the final check is, we're saying this tooling is exactly what you ordered, exactly what you want and you should be able to put it in place and run it. It's kind of like. Christmas morning, it's all wrapped U and they unwrap it. I want them to go wow. They're getting exactly what they want. They they want to be able to sell that first gassing if that first casting is not good. We didn't do our job. Because that's what they're buying, buying our tooling For us to make castings quality here in Anderson means you're given the customer exactly what they want to the specs that they want. And the time delivery they want. And probably just a touch above all that. That's that's what you get, I think, if you buy tooling from Anderson.