Between juggling 3 employees and my own workload, I like to play with steel.

This week’s goal is to reorganize the pallet rack under my office loft, and that includes a pallet full of GIGANTIC pancakes. In “machinist-speak”, those are adapter plates that mount power chucks to machines.

Why pancakes? I started calling “adapter plates” pancakes after all my temp workers, friends, and family started calling them “pancakes”. Out of all our stock, adapters are the flattest-looking item. Cylindrical.

I had to go pancake-diving to find the correct 20” diameter adapter plate for a customer’s order. It’s been awhile since we’ve sold an adapter plate of this size, and it was an adventure hustling through a stack of steel looking for the correct model. The pile is decimated, and patiently awaiting to be relabeled and reshelved. Thank jumping jellyfish I now have employees to clean up after me!