How Ed Korkowski Is Elevating Public Safety Through EddyCurrent.com and Mission-Driven Education
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In this episode of Mission Matters, host Adam Torres interviews Edward Korkowski, NDT Level III and founder of EddyCurrent.com. With decades of hands-on experience in non-destructive testing, Ed unpacks how his work protects lives and infrastructure, shares the origins of his passion, and discusses how he’s training the next generation through digital content and education.
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About Edward Korkowski
Nuclear professional with 35 years of experience in nondestructive testing (NDT), with a focus on Steam Generator eddy current examination and repair. Skilled in NDT Applications, Analytics, Communication, Program Management, Training, Research, and Quality Assurance. Strong educational background featuring 2-year NDT program completion (Ridgewater State College), Bachelor of Applied Science in Energy Management from Bismarck State University, and currently enrolled in the Executive MBA program at FAU, specializing in Operations Mgmt. Training and Public Speaking are also strong skill sets. Distinguished Toastmaster (DTM). ASNT NDT Level III. Eddy Current Qualified Data Analyst (QDA) from the Electrical Power Research Institute (EPRI).
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Hey, I’d like to welcome you to another episode of Mission Matters. My name is Adam Torres, and if you’d like to apply to be a guest in the show, just head on over to mission matters.com and click on Be Our Guest to Apply. All right, today I have Edward Kowski on the line, and he’s NDT level three certified and owner of Eddie current.com.
Ed, welcome to the show. Thank you, Adam. All right, so I’ve been looking forward to this for a while now. I know we, we met back in in April. We’re finally recording in May and we got a lot to cover today. So I do wanna get into eddie current.com. Your, your, your site, your vision for the platform overall.
We’re gonna talk a little bit about NDT testing of course, as well. Overall. But before we start that, we’ll start this episode the way that we start them all with what we like to call our mission matters minute. So Ed, at Mission Matters, our aim and our goal is to amplify stories for entrepreneurs, executives and experts.
That’s what we do. Ed, what mission matters to you? Well, I’m in non-destructive testing, so, you know, testing components, it keeps it keeps components running. It keeps people safe, it keeps costs down. So it’s all about integrity for materials and safety for the public. Yeah. It’s great. Love bringing mission-based individuals on the line to share why they do what they do, how they’re doing it, and what we can learn from it.
So just to get us kicked off here, how’d you get into NDD testing in the first place? Like, and actually maybe let’s define what that is for. I know we’ve been having discussions, so, so I’ve been learning a lot, but I didn’t know when we first met or even a while before. For that. I know we worked with, we did some work with Don Booth who’s also part of our community and that’s when I kind of was introduced to the world a bit.
But maybe start by defining it again a little bit and and also telling us how you got started. Yeah. You know, I think Don and I actually probably went to the same school up there in Minnesota. It’s Ridgewater College. It used to be called Hutchinson BoTech, but they had a non-destructive testing program that started back in the early seventies.
Hmm. I think it started off in an old school or an old church or something like that. But it started with just very basic equipment. Right. But non-destructive testing is a non-invasive way of testing materials for like wear cracking degradation. Hmm. Without damaging the material. So a good example would be if you, if you broke a leg or whatever.
I mean, that’s, that’s a destructive. You know, that’s destructive ’cause you break a bone. But when you go to the hospital, they don’t cut you open to look at your bone. They do an x-ray. Yeah. Because that’s sort of non-invasive. Same way if a pregnant woman goes to the hospital and gets checked out, you know, they use ultrasound to look at the fetus.
So those are non-destructive test techniques and I. If they do non-destructive testing, you know, just about every industry you can imagine. Hmm. A very obvious one is like amusement parks, you know, the rollercoaster rails, you know, the big rides that swing all over the place. Yeah. Power plants, aviation, aerospace.
Any place that has a. Metal. It’s not just metal, you know, you can do non-destructive testing on food. You can do non-destructive testing on, you know, wood and organic matter. They’re actually doing non-destructive testing below the Giza pyramids right now because they think there’s some big structures underground.
So they’re using some type of aperture radar from outer space. But that’s non-destructive testing also. Wow. Yeah. So going, I, let’s, let’s go a step further on this. So maybe now just let, let’s, let’s get into Eddie Current a bit and maybe talk a little bit about that specific type, just so we can build a little bit of a foundation for the discussion.
Yeah. Well, you know, when I went to school, they, we had studied radiography, ultrasonics, liquid penetrant, and Eddie Current was one of those methods. Hmm. And. I swore by the time I got done with school that Eddie current testing was gonna be the absolute last profession that I chose because it’s, you know, electromagnetism is kind of mysterious and the background is very rich and colorful, but I.
All the books and all the literature that’s been published on electromagnetic testing and Eddie Kern specifically, nobody really connected the dots well. So you could read a book and going, oh, this is how it works. But it’s an old book. Some of what’s in those old books still apply and some of it’s been replaced with new technology or, you know, increased learning.
So any current testing, I swore I would never do it. But when I went on some job interviews after school. You know, I took the job that I got offered in Virginia and they did exclusive ed current testing, and they did ed current testing on heat exchange tubing and power plants. Hmm. So I got into it, you know, first I was a platform worker.
I was dressing up in the protective clothing and, you know, taking care of the equipment and stuff, and, but we tested tubes, you know, hundreds and thousands of miles of tubes over and over, all over the world. And so how do you know, like, is that how you got your, your foundation? Like how do you know so much nowadays?
’cause you’re one of the world’s like foremost authorities on this. Like how many years you’ve been, you’ve been in this business now, like give us some of the numbers. I. The first company I worked for was there for a little over 15 years, and that was a service company that traveled around and serviced power plants.
Mm-hmm. So I was the vendor that would show up with the equipment and I would go and look for, you know, flaws in power plants. Mm-hmm. And then after I worked for that company for like 15 or 16 years, then I came to work for an actual power company. So it’s kinda like I went from being the worker to the boss, you know, but it’s nice to be full circle and it’s a small community of people out there, you know.
Yeah, it’s small, but active. I mean, talk a little bit about your, your content creation, like the videos that you create, your YouTube channel. I mean, because you’re putting out quite a bit of content. Yeah, I’ve been putting out a lot of content lately. It all started about five years ago. Chuck Hellier.
He, he, I referred to him as, you know, an NDT legend or Godfather of NDT. He’s been around forever. Yeah, he’s probably in his mid eighties. I actually talked to him just this morning about Eddie Current. I believe that, but I kind of figured that, was it what you talked about? Go ahead. Yeah, so just pre COVID, he called me up one day.
Him and Jim Treat, who’s another, nDT legend, he, he passed on in 2023, I believe. He was actually my first boss, Jim Treat. Wow. But those two fellas called me up and asked me if I would be interested in making an ed current training course on video. And I’m like, I’m like, yeah, that sounds cool. You know?
They said, but you gotta create all the material. Can’t use anybody else’s material. So I’m like, oh boy, it’s gonna be a big you know, a big challenge. But I, I like challenges. So I signed up for that and after about six months of prep, they flew me up to a studio in New York and I, I basically showed up and I had some vendors send me equipment.
I didn’t know how any of it worked, and I just sat there for a full week and filmed, you know, under the lights and the cameras and all that stuff. And it actually went pretty well. And then as soon as I got back, you know, COVID hit and I was actually due to take my recertification exam. It’s a, you know, pretty tough written test from the American Society for Non-Destructive Testing.
It’s the ET or the electromagnetic testing exam. And normally I would go for a week long refresher training each time before I’d go take the exam. But because of COVID, everything was shut down. Yeah. So I took out every book. I mean, these are. These are some of the books in my library and I think I probably have 75 or so, Eddie current books.
Every one I can find I pick up. Right. Wow. So I figured I would just sit down and self-study, and then I started thinking about, you know, I go and I pay this. You know, a couple thousand bucks every five years. Yeah. To take a class from somebody to teach me more about any current. And I thought about it, I’m like, you know what, why, why don’t I do that?
Because like, I’m older now and I’ve been doing it for a long time and I got some schooling with it, you know, so having all the right experience on paper. So I started teaching the electromagnetic testing. It’s a, it’s an exam prep course. I think they’re called CPC certification. Preparation course.
Yeah. So I started teaching that class for the ass and T so that was kind of cool. And after I made the course for Jim Treat and Chuck Hellier, I’m like, you know what? Why don’t we just keep working on this? Hmm. So I just, I kept developing materials and I had this, you know, big library. I also did a lot of research in industry databases and research laboratory databases.
Maybe we can talk about that in a minute. But I have this huge trove of information that I can pull from. Mm-hmm. You know, everyone that looked for it and took the time and made the effort could find the same material. Yeah. But you know, I looked and I found it, and so I used that to not only create a lot of the stuff that I speak about, like my podcast and stuff, but you know, part of the reason I went and did all this research is because Eddie Current is one of those non-destructive test meth methods where people have opinions and they’ll give you, you know, what they think, what a signal is, or what’s causing that.
And they never really tell you what they’re basing it on, but that’s what they think. Right. And if they, if they’re persuasive enough, they can convince you that their way is right. Well, I got kind of frustrated ’cause I don’t, I didn’t know where people were getting all their background to make decisions from.
Right. Yeah. So I was, I was always on a quest to find the answers. Yeah. That’s why I just kept digging and digging and digging. And I’m like, you know what? This stuff isn’t rocket science. You know, it’s, it’s a lot of pattern recognition. It’s understanding, you know, some physics and, you know, even understanding the physics sounds crazy, but you know, if you fall over and you hit your head on the ground, you just experienced physics.
Right? So it doesn’t have to be all confusing. Right. Hmm. And it’s a lot of, you know, it deals with magnetism a lot. Everybody plays with magnets as a kid, you know, so when you get, when you start taking ed, current training, they talk a lot about magnetic domains, you know, and polarity and all that stuff.
But you play with a magnet as a kid, you got, you know, a good start on ed, current testing. Yeah. And talk about, okay, so you acquired call, how, how far back you go, you said, but Eddie current.com. So now, and I, and I want you to kind of like provide some clarity here for me. So you have this amazing domain, you have this platform.
You’re building, you have education content that you’re creating. Let me into your mind a little bit here. What’s some of the vision for this big platform you’re creating and supporting? Well, let me first talk about the aging workforce a little bit. Hmm. Go for it. Non-destructive, non-destructive testing is a trade, you know, we, you know, they like pipe fitters and electricians and plumbers.
Mm-hmm. These are all trades. You know, you, you go out there, you get a little dirty, you work hard, you use equipment, you got special skills of the trade and things like that. Mm-hmm. But you know, as well as I do that a lot of the younger generation and actually had a blog, prepared the other day about this.
A lot of the younger generation is being drawn to the digital digital age, I guess they call it, or digital jobs. Yeah. So, you know, when you think about content creators, you know, influencers, drop shipping, podcasting, all that stuff. You can work from home and you can be with your dog all day. Yeah.
You don’t have to ever change outta your night clothes if you don’t want, and you can probably make pretty good money if you’re good at what you do. Right? Yep. So the, the industry right now is sort of facing a challenge of how do we get people to come into the business? Mm-hmm. So one of the ways is to, you know, let people know that it exists.
Because, you know, before I was probably 18 years old, I’d never heard of non-destructive testing. Yeah. I mean, before Don Booth spoke to you, you probably never heard of it. I didn’t know. I, I admit I did it. Nope. See, and it’s something that happens under your nose all day and all night. Probably mostly at night.
Yeah. Like amusement parks. Right. They do all that work when everybody goes home. Mm-hmm. But, so it’s I think my part in this is letting people know it exists, letting people know that, you know, I’m from basic farm country up in Minnesota, grew up, you know, working on farms and stuff like that. I wouldn’t consider myself super smart or anything like that, but I’ve always been curious, you know, I’ve always been curious and I wondered how things worked and, you know, through some of my videos, I think some of ’em are a little bit funny. I think most of them are. Mm-hmm. At least somewhat educational. And I can show people, hey, you can do really cool stuff with, you know, these test instruments and make, make a real difference to people. You know, you can have, yeah, you can have a power plant or an air airline company that’s got some sort of crisis or some event happened and they don’t know why or what happened, and they may call you in to do forensics, you know, so a lot of times.
You can be part of a solution that makes a big difference. And you know, of course if you keep rollercoasters safe and airplanes safe and rocket ships safe and yeah, power plants up and running because, you know, power plants provide electricity to police departments, nursing homes mm-hmm. Hospitals, it’s all part of keeping all that infrastructure running and keeping the people safe.
Mm-hmm. And, you know, provide them with the services that they expect. Man, that’s amazing. And to think that it affects so many different facets of our life. But you know, I didn’t, I didn’t even know you said until your teenage years. I didn’t know until, you know, I started working with Don Booth and then and now yourself.
So it’s amazing to, to meet it, know that this huge infrastructure existed that I didn’t even know about. Yeah. Well, you know your brain’s got that thing called the reticular activating system. That’s the white, like when you, when you buy a white car, a white Prius or a white Ford or whatever. Yep. And you start seeing them everywhere.
Mm-hmm. Now you’re gonna start hearing non-destructive testing. Any current testing radiography. You’re gonna hear it on the radio. Hear it on tv. I wanna talk a little bit about your process, ’cause I think it’s interesting and, and, and maybe shift a little bit here to the personal development side of things.
‘Cause I, I see books, you’re big into books. Obviously you go deep in subject because you’re, I mean, Eddie Current, you, you made a career out of it. Like how do you approach this concept of, you know, personal development and, and really just educating yourself. I’m looking, I’m looking around for something.
You gotta stand by on this one. ’cause if I find this thing, it’s gonna be great. Oh, here it’s,
oh, semi prepared for this interview. That’s what I like. Can you read that? I can. Distinguished Toastmaster. Oh, you’re a Toastmaster. That’s awesome. Toastmaster. Yeah. So. I would say a lot started when I went to Toastmasters. Right. So I remember it was about 2010 and I was listening to a audio book from Jim Rohn.
Mm. And that, that’s not the Sports Jim Rohn. This is like Tony Robbins mentor, right? Yeah. And I listened to the cd. I bought some bootleg dfa like eBay, and this was one of the mystery tracks that I had, right. And it was called the Day That Turns your life around. Hmm. And I listened to it and it was so powerful.
I signed up to go back to school the next day. Wow. So I went and got my undergrad at like 40. And when I was in my undergrad program for energy management. So it was kind of fitting with my career. One of the classes was Introduction to Public Speaking, right? Mm-hmm. And one of the, one of the things you had to do in that was perform a speech in front of like 10 people.
Mm-hmm. I was talking to my mom one day about it and she goes, why don’t you just get, you know, get, go to a nursing home. They’ll be happy to hear you talk. But I had to find an audience. Yeah. You know, it’s hard to get 10 people together at work, even if it’s work related. So that was, yeah, so I just I did some searching online and I found out about Toastmasters and I just showed up one night with my camcorder and a speech about non-destructive testing.
What. I met the club president. He goes, he goes, do you know where you’re going? I said, yeah, I’m gonna Toastmasters. And he goes, what are you gonna give a speech? And I’m like, yeah. And he goes, are you a member? I’m like, no. What just happened is they had a cancellation. ’cause you have to sign up for Toastmasters speeches.
Right? You do. I was, I, I earned my cc. So I earned my competent communicators way back when. Yes. 10 speeches. I got you buddy. 10 speeches you had to work with a manual you had to do. Yes, yes, yes. So I think it’s h it’s amazing and hilarious. You showed up with your speech day one. That’s amazing. Go ahead, continue.
This is a great story. So, so he goes so you’re not a member and you wanna give a speech tonight? And I said, yeah. And he goes, do you got your checkbook? And I said, yeah. And he goes, you’re on speaker number one. So I went in there and then, you know, I had my camcorder, but they had a videographer for the night.
Wow. And he goes, you don’t have to worry about that. I got it. So I’m like, well, I really need the video. And he goes, I’ll give it to you after. So I went through there, my knees were knocking, dry mouth, all that stuff, you know, and at the end of the meeting he goes, I got some bad news. I didn’t turn my camcorder on.
Oh. So I had to do the whole thing over, but at least I had to practice round in, you know? Yeah. So I did three speeches there just to, you know, fulfill my class requirement, but I started to enjoy it so much that I stuck with it. And I, you know, eventually I became an area governor for you know, region of South Florida.
And when you’re area governors, you know, you go around to different businesses and you teach them how to start up Toastmasters clubs in their companies. Hmm. So we would go to like GE and we went to G four s, the security place. We actually started a Toastmasters club at the company that I work for now.
And so it’s really good to, you know, we went to Scripps, you know, so there’s, that’s a place where you got all these doctors, brilliant doctors that are, you know, search for cures for cancer and all this stuff, and. They’re brilliant with medicine, but you put ’em in front of a group of people, man, and they’re just as nervous as the next person.
Yeah, for sure. So it was, it was fun to deal with those folks, you know, and see, I, I would say that was a really good thing to do because, you know, one of the. One of the blogs that I have talks about, and all my blogs have a lesson, by the way. I don’t write ’em just to, just to write. But one of them talks about the confidence that’s required when you are a leader in the non-destructive testing business because you know, you’re inspecting components for a client and if it’s unfortunate case where you find something wrong and you have to deliver this news to them mm-hmm.
You know, when they’re on a budget and a schedule and they gotta get the plant back online. And you give ’em unpleasant news, they ain’t gonna want to hear it. Right. That’s true. And you better make a pretty convincing argument if there a lot of repairs have to be done. Mm-hmm. You know, if they have to replace components that they weren’t expecting.
’cause that’s, that’s big emergent unplanned work. Yeah. And if you go in there, you know, looking at the ground and you don’t really sound so sure of yourself, even if you are. Yeah. You know, they’re not gonna get the message that you know what the heck you’re talking about. So you better not only know what you’re doing, but you, man, I never made that connection.
Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. I. Yeah, I said there’s no room for milk toast in any current. That was on my blogs. I have fun, those blogs. That makes so much sense. So, wow. So Toast Minster. I, I haven’t thought of that organization in a while. I’m a big fan of it. I mean, I can think about earlier in my career when I was going through my CC and doing those initial speeches, like it made a difference.
I was younger and I was working. Some of the people in the in that particular group out of, out of Scottsdale, Arizona, were like. Really tenured speakers. And some of them were really, really good and like spoke professionally and they would go there and they had, they had earned their like higher level like certifications and they were like really sharp.
And I, looking back now, I was very very fortunate to have such a good group that, you know, took the time to give feedback and to, you know, make sure that I got better along the way. What do you digging for now, man? I see you over there. You know what’s so funny? I swear to God I did not plan this. I was just looking through my drawer here.
You know what? I kept my blue ribbons way. Get outta here. I’ve got over 75 blue ribbons in this pack here. Wow. And this every time I went to Toastmaster, you know they give out ribbons. Yeah. As a way to say good job. You know, even if you’re not that good, they go, good job. You know? ’cause I want you to come back and practice next week.
Yeah. I was so passionate about it and had so much fun with it. I think that’s why I got a lot of blue ribbons, you know? ’cause I like telling stories. That’s awesome. I love this. And some of ’em are good stories too. Well, ed first off, this has been great getting, getting to know more about you getting to bring this to my audience.
And so now, like you said a reticular activating system we all heard about what Eddie current is now, now we’re all gonna be noticing it, so I’m glad that you are working hard to bring awareness to the industry. And I just have to ask, I mean, you got a lot going on. What’s next? What’s next for you?
What’s next for the website? What’s next for your, your vision? Well, you know, I talked about the digital economy and stuff a little bit and talking about the, you know, content creators. Yeah. And you know, there’s, there’s a couple guys out there this one guy outta Texas that he’s been making, you know, Eddie Kern videos for years.
And the guy’s super smart, you know, he knows it all. Yeah. You know, nobody knows it all, but he knows a lot. And I look at the videos and nowadays. If you don’t have good audio and good video and you know, solid content, you, you don’t have anybody’s attention for more than two seconds. That’s true. So I’m like, I’m gonna be an ed, current content creator, you know?
Yes. So I have a lot of, I have a lot of material that I, that I have fun delivering to people that wanna learn more about ed current testing. And there’s a lot to learn. You know, you, that’s one of those things where you never learn at all. I mean, I learned like four things this morning. Wow. Really? Yeah.
So this is like a every, every single day. It’s a new, it’s a new challenge. It’s a new thing to overcome. But then what’s cool for you on this content creating side of things is it’s a new video, right? Yeah. I do have to show you one thing here real quick. Do show, I know you got gadgets back there. I’m like, what is this stuff I’m looking at?
So, you know, steam generator tub in the United States, there wasn’t a good commercially available instrument for tube testing until the late seventies, right? Hmm. This particular, this is a heavy one. This is an EM 3,300. This was, this came out in about 1980, I guess. Yeah. It’s an old analog, it’s an old Analog.
Analog God. And it actually still works. But you see, I got the side panel off ’cause it, it needs a couple transistors and. They’re kind of hard to find these days, you know, but I wanna bring it back. I wanna bring it back to life. But, you know, that was, that was very primitive by today’s standards because it did very basic testing and, you know, when you, when you follow how the technology evolves, you know, I.
A tester that’s this size weighs what? A couple pounds? Yeah. Can do so much more. It’s like your old rotary phone versus your smartphone. Right? Not only are they smaller, but they’ll do a hundred times, you know, the, the applications quicker. And today they make these things called array probes. See I’ll show you this real quick.
When the guys are inspecting airplanes, you know, they got little tiny pencil probes like this, you see that? Yeah. Yeah. And they’re scanning around the windows. You know, looking for tiny cracks. Wow. You can imagine how time consuming that is. Right. Wait a minute. They’re doing, that’s how big for an airplane.
Just for, you know, the smaller the crack you need to find, the smaller the coil you need. Oh my gosh, that’s man for everybody can’t for a little tiny crack. Everybody that’s listening and for everybody that’s listening at home, that are listening to audio only, and you’re not watching this on our YouTube channel or can’t see the video that is holding up something that looks like a half of a pencil, not even a full pencil.
That CO is probably two millimeters. And the coil is two millimeters. So this thing is small and you’re telling me that they, that this is what they use to test on airplanes. Wow. They go for little tight areas where they could be very, very small. Cracks, you know, little cracks. You ever get a little crack on your windshield?
Yeah. What happens to it? It starts to propagate and bigger. And get bigger. Right. Get bigger. Yeah. And that’s when the, that’s when the top or aircraft can come off like a sardine can. Right? So nobody wants that, man. Don’t tell me that. I just got back from Miami yesterday. I don’t. So well now, now when I’m sitting in the plane, ed, I’m be thinking about, man, I hope whoever tested this plane was good at what they do.
They better be watching Ed’s content. It’s the safest way to travel and it’s because the aircraft get routinely inspected with non-destructive testing. But the latest thing, I shouldn’t say it’s that late, but you know, people are moving more and more to array probes. Mm-hmm. And this, this flexible ribbon here can have hundreds of little coils in it.
So instead of having one coil, you’ve got a hundred. Yeah. So now you can scan a whole area. And because it’s so big and it’s got so many coils. You can always have complete overlap, a hundred percent coverage, and your probability of detection of flaws is a lot higher, so you’ll have less misses. Mm. So this is the, they use array probes for tubing.
They use it for, you know, ship halls. Eddie Current, you know, certain types of curr like pulse, Eddie current can go very deep, whereas conventional Eddie, current testing is for pretty thin materials. Hmm. Like this is a rotating scanner. And this, this is a probe that has a small coil in it. And this, this rotates.
So when they take all the rivets out, they’ll scan the holes with a rotating scanner to look defract. Whoa. You know, there’s all sorts. This is a, this is a rotating probe that they inspect tight radius, U bend tubes with. Whoa. So as it’s going in and out, it’s also spinning at like 500 RPMs. Dang. So it’s complex, you know, a lot of, lot of sophisticated equipment is used.
It’s very interesting field. You know, a lot to keep up with, man. It is. It’s like you’re playing with a bunch of gadgets over there. It seems interesting. All sorts of gadgets. I get it. Yeah. Well man, this has been fun and thank you for sharing some of the, some of the, I shouldn’t say toys, but instruments that you’re using to keep us safe out there.
But to me it looks like a lot of fun too. I’m like, man, it is fun. That being said, if somebody wants to follow up, start following your content, and if they’re not already, I know you have eddie current.com. What about the YouTube channel and everything else? How do people connect with you? Well, first thing, my email is easy to remember.
It’s [email protected] and the YouTube channel name because you can’t have any like periods in the name. Yeah, yeah. It’s Eddie Current. Eddie Current DOT com. Yep. So one thing that’s nice about the YouTube channel is basically what I’ve done is make playlists of every company that sells. Eddie current equipment.
Hmm. And most of those companies have made videos for all of their test instruments and equipment. Yeah. So if you just go to eddie cur.com, you can see everybody else’s stuff. Yeah, that’s great. Plus all my stuff. That’s awesome. And for everybody listening, just so you know, we’ll definitely put the links onto the, in, in the show notes.
So you can just click on the links, head right on over and check out what ed site and also his his YouTube channel, of course, and his other content. Speaking of the audience, if this is your first time with Mission Matters and you haven’t done it yet, hit that subscribe or follow button. This is a daily show and and Ed, I you’re holding something up there, I want you to talk about that for a moment before we sign off.
’cause I know that’s also available at your eddie current.com website, I believe, right? Yeah. It’s a little plug, you know, but I, I feel passionately this is one of the best tools that any Eddie Current technician can have in their toolbox. This was developed by the government back in the late sixties, guy by the name of Russell Brown, actually.
But it’s, it’s an old analog slide rule that you can use. To calculate things like what test frequency should you use for a certain thickness and type of tubing? Mm. And you know, everybody today likes, likes black boxes and calculators and Excel sheets and all this stuff, but the more you use this tool, you know your intuition for what you expect the answer should be, it starts to develop.
And after a while you become a wizard with this little thing and you, you kind of gotta hide them because people will steal these. But I’ve got them, I’ve got plenty of these. I think I’ve got. I don’t know. I’ve got enough. Put it that way. That’s amazing. And and, and if everybody listening again, we’ll put the links to eddie current.com and the website and on the show notes so you can click on ’em and head right on over.
And Ed man, really it has been a pro a pleasure. Thanks so much for coming on the show today. I really enjoy it. Yeah. Thanks Adam. See you later.