{"id":32071,"date":"2018-08-24T02:00:09","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T09:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=32071"},"modified":"2018-09-08T11:25:17","modified_gmt":"2018-09-08T18:25:17","slug":"michael-dubno-founder-of-gadgetoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/michael-dubno-founder-of-gadgetoff\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Dubno, Co-founder of Gadgetoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our guest this week is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dubno.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michael Dubno<\/a>. Michael is a former Wall Street CIO\/CTO and a software developer. He&#8217;s an inventor, artist, welder, machinist, polar explorer, photographer, roboticist, tech entrepreneur, mentor, co-founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gadgetoff.com\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gadgetoff<\/a>, co-chair of FIRST in New York City, and exaggerator of accomplishments, and a collector and user of tools.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/489754605&#038;color=%23ff5500&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/cool-tools-show-and-tell\/id605920446?mt=2\">Subscribe to the Cool Tools Show on iTunes<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/feedpress.me\/cooltoolsshow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1rEjX0EUw9MwqnFQC2VSx-j_55zkX3gi8idmSng4ok3Y\/edit?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Transcript<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tracking.feedpress.it\/link\/7810\/10132476\/489754605-cool-tools-137-michael-dubno.mp3\">Download MP3<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/tag\/cool-tools-show\/\">See all the Cool Tools Show posts on a single page<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Show notes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-32073\" src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2018\/08\/440_PCNC_Tormach-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"440_PCNC_Tormach\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2018\/08\/440_PCNC_Tormach-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2018\/08\/440_PCNC_Tormach-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2018\/08\/440_PCNC_Tormach.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tormach.com\/store\/index.php?app=ecom&amp;ns=catshow&amp;ref=PCNC440\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tormach 440 CNC Mill<\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;I think that [this] would probably be one of the harder tools to lose, simply because just where my mindset is now is actually building fairly sophisticated structures and mechanisms and having a real CNC mill allows that to happen. \u2026 you can actually cut steel, cut it accurately, cut aluminum, cut it accurately, brass as well. And so, I did CNC conversions on an old Smithy three-in-one but it just didn&#8217;t have accuracy for building what I was building. \u2026 it&#8217;s not a cheap tool, and it&#8217;s certainly not a hand tool, and it&#8217;s not a tool for everyone, but when you make a lot of things, at a certain point, if you make the same part many times it&#8217;s obviously incredibly useful for that. And I have it rigged out with tool changers and power draw bars and a fourth axis and things like that, to make the weird things that I like to make.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-32072\" src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2018\/08\/swagportaband-296x300.png\" alt=\"swagportaband\" width=\"296\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2018\/08\/swagportaband-296x300.png 296w, https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2018\/08\/swagportaband.png 632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2Mx9Ydq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DEWALT SWAG Portaband Table<\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;So the Dewalt Portaband, I actually have a stand for it \u2026 There&#8217;s a company called Swag Tools that makes a very neat stand; in fact, almost everyone who&#8217;s seen this has gone out and bought the Swag stand and the Portaband saw. What it does is it takes a portable band saw and it turns it into a desktop type of band saw. \u2026 I happen to have a metal cutting band saw that is a horizontal one that&#8217;s sitting here from Jet, I happen to have another vertical one for cutting wood also from Jet and I tend to use the Portaband with it&#8217;s little base as my go-to for cutting metal, and it is phenomenal at doing that. You can just rip through a sheet of steel or aluminum pretty quickly. \u2026 And so then you also have the versatility of it being portable, and so I love it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-32075\" src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2018\/08\/powermax-300x155.jpg\" alt=\"powermax\" width=\"300\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2018\/08\/powermax-300x155.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2018\/08\/powermax-1024x530.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2018\/08\/powermax.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2MFR7w7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hypertherm Powermax30 Hand Plasma System<\/a><br \/>\n\u201cIt cuts through steel, truly as if it&#8217;s butter and if you&#8217;re not careful you cut through your welding table as if it didn&#8217;t exist. So that&#8217;s always impressive. And so it&#8217;s a good way to demonstrate tools to people; it&#8217;s not very dangerous. It is operating at extreme temperatures but as long as you&#8217;re not putting yourself below where it&#8217;s cutting, it&#8217;s really wanting to cut metal, not you. You tend to be fine. So I&#8217;ve used it in the past to cut out metal bits for a number of sculptures and I find it very handy. For fine work, I think you would need more of a plasma table that is more CNC but I found that for ripping through a sheet of steel, it&#8217;s as impressive as you can get.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-32074\" src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2018\/08\/hakkofr300desolderer-300x252.jpg\" alt=\"hakkofr300desolderer\" width=\"300\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2018\/08\/hakkofr300desolderer-300x252.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2018\/08\/hakkofr300desolderer-1024x859.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2018\/08\/hakkofr300desolderer.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2MJdn8g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hakko FR300-05\/P Desoldering Tool<\/a><br \/>\n\u201cOne of the things that I never had until recently is an easy way to desolder and I&#8217;ve used the little solder sucking tubes and stuff like that, and they&#8217;re great, but suddenly when you can plug something into the wall that is basically a soldering iron with a pump built into it and you just go to the work and you go slurping the solder off, it is something where you wonder why you didn&#8217;t buy this whenever it first came out. Probably because I didn&#8217;t have the money at the time, but it&#8217;s still one of the most beautiful tools for doing electronics work I&#8217;ve ever played with.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also mentioned:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Workshop<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8220;I think the first tool, or collection of tools that I think you&#8217;d find interesting is my workshop which is only 300 feet from Central Park in Manhattan. And it&#8217;s not a normal place you&#8217;d find a workshop; in order to build it, I removed 250 thousand pounds of rock which was all solid bedrock from the foundation, which effectively doubled the size to about a thousand square foot workspace. And it&#8217;s in a private home in Manhattan. \u2026. <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/koYenmdJdu8 \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jimmy DiResta&#8217;s obviously posted some tours of my workshop<\/a>. So has a person named <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/trteo6m23oA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Giaco Whatever<\/a> and he&#8217;s been a lot of fun to have over. So you can go and see some videos there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.clickspringprojects.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ClickSpring<\/a> \u2014 amazing workmanship, tool building, and instructional videos.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.atelier-automatik.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Atelier Automatik<\/a> \u2014 a website of some of the fun things that I make<\/p>\n<p><em>We have hired professional editors to help create our weekly podcasts and video reviews. So far, Cool Tools listeners have pledged $382 a month. Please consider\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/cooltools\">supporting us<\/a>\u00a0on Patreon. 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