Business of Machining

John Grimsmo & John Saunders

  • 51 minutes 44 seconds
    #403 Make decisions and dealing with the consequences.

    TOPICS:

    • Make decisions on your own, as long as you're willing to deal with the consequences.
    • CHATTER machine monitoring
    • Robots!
    • Mastering youtube
    • Dial test indicator stand
    • Surface grinding and lapping
    • Tormach 1500mx
    21 February 2025, 5:00 am
  • 51 minutes 9 seconds
    #402 "Delegating is sometimes just as simple as delegating"


    TOPICS:

    • "My Willy is doing great" - Grimsmo
    • Kern was purchased by Ametek.
    • "Delegating is sometimes just as simple as delegating".
    • Auto serial numbers on Okuma
    • Vapor degreaser
    • Diamond lapping
    • Bad 3d printing


    14 February 2025, 5:00 am
  • 51 minutes 18 seconds
    #401 Stress in your business

    TOPICS:

    • Heat treated A2 dimensions
    • Grimsmo Fjell update
    • Robot loading solutions
    • Endmill consistency


    7 February 2025, 5:00 am
  • 48 minutes 14 seconds
    #400 Episode 400 baby!!
    • Intern or full time machinist?
    • DOITS
    • 100 Fjell knives
    • Hardmilling and tool life
    • Chatter machine monitoring installed at SMW
    31 January 2025, 5:00 am
  • 49 minutes 20 seconds
    #399 Too much on my plate

    TOPICS:

    • Project management at Saunders
    • Tolerance ranges and scrapping parts
    • Python script deep dive
    • Robots to change workpieces and pallets
    • Willemin part release... magnetism?
    • Too much on my plate


    24 January 2025, 5:00 am
  • 53 minutes 41 seconds
    #398 Python script to create the perfect toolpath!

    TOPICS:

    • NYCCNC has been purchased by DSI
    • Hardmilling
    • Kolsterizing process by Bodycote
    • 5 axis automation and robotics
    • DOITS finally work
    • - Shrink the project
    • - Cannot think about it
    • Grimsmo grinding improvements
    • - Python script to create the perfect toolpath!
    17 January 2025, 5:00 am
  • 50 minutes 20 seconds
    #397 Team oriented wishlish

    TOPICS:

    • 2025 changes
    • DOITS
    • Leadership roles
    • Measuring runout in toolholders
    • 5 axis automation at Saunders?
    • Team oriented wishlish
    • Fjell production update
    10 January 2025, 5:00 am
  • 47 minutes
    #396 Raspberry Pi in the shop

    TOPICS:

    • Oscilliscope readings on Heidenhain
    • Tool life in A2 steel
    • Raspberry Pi in the shop
    • Tour of Henry Holsters
    • Project management in 2025


    20 December 2024, 5:00 am
  • 51 minutes 4 seconds
    #395 Tracking tool life

    TOPICS:

    • Willemin air lines all replaced
    • Saunders is using metric hardware
    • Microscopes in the shop
    • Tracking tool life
    • Machining A2
    • The ultimate Clamps
    • Lapping precision holes


    13 December 2024, 5:00 am
  • 53 minutes 5 seconds
    #394 DIY 3d printed machine tools with concrete!

    TOPICS:

    • DIY 3d printed machine tools with concrete!
    • Flextures and insane tolerances
    • Machining soft blades in the Kern is slow, but better
    • Patterning stress
    • Hardmlling tool life?
    • Chatter machine monitoring


    6 December 2024, 5:00 am
  • 53 minutes 40 seconds
    #393 Fusion tips and tricks

    TOPICS:

    • Google Appscripts does awesome stuff
    • Notes to yourself in Fusion 360 and other Fusion tips and tricks
    • Hardmilling update!  Hard grindmilling too.
    • Heat treating ideas
    29 November 2024, 5:00 am
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