Business of Machining

John Grimsmo & John Saunders

  • 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
  • 51 minutes 21 seconds
    #392 Hardmilling puckchucks on Okuma

    TOPICS:

    • Hardmilling puckchucks on Okuma
    • Heat treating ovens
    • Fjell pocket clip success!
    • Prusa new printers
    22 November 2024, 5:00 am
  • 41 minutes 1 second
    #391 50 tidbits by Dave Arneson

    TOPICS:

    • Hardmilling endmills came in
    • Heat treating and worried about warp
    • Kern still dropping tools
    • Kind words from a listener
    • Solution to Saunders' tolerance issue
    • 50 tidbits by Dave Arneson
    • https://www.airbearings.com/old-pages/news/50-tidbits
    • Lapping for flatness and shiny!



    15 November 2024, 5:00 am
  • 48 minutes 12 seconds
    #390 Take your kid to work day

    TOPICS:

    • Take your kid to work day
    • Saunders bought another lathe
    • "I'm stumped" - Saunders
    • Wazer waterjet at Grimsmo
    • Hardmilling
    8 November 2024, 5:00 am
  • 50 minutes 38 seconds
    #389 HARDMILLING!!

    TOPICS:

    • Kern is down!
    • Internal inventory levels
    • HARDMILLING!!
    • Magnetic chucks
    • Seville Classics cabinets and tables


    1 November 2024, 4:00 am
  • 51 minutes 32 seconds
    #388 Creating videos for Youtube

    TOPICS:

    • Kern tool changers issues
    • Creating videos for Youtube
    • 11:-- error, 30 seconds missing
    • Replacing glass on CNC machines
    • Video - "The universe is hostile to computers" - Veritasium
    • Artwork at home
    • Flocking tumbler liquids
    • DIY fixture rack
    25 October 2024, 4:00 am
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