Business of Machining
John Grimsmo & John Saunders
- 44 minutes 14 seconds#407 First Hundred knives and lessons learned
TOPICS:
- Fusion PSA on heights tab
- Measuring ultra precision
- Heat treating improvements
- Tormach 1500mx updates
28 March 2025, 4:00 am - 49 minutes 18 seconds#406 Surface grinding deep dive
TOPICS:
- Business insurance
- Thermal compensation on Speedio
- Surface grinding deep dive
- Shop improvements
14 March 2025, 4:00 am - 47 minutes 9 seconds#405 Why are lathe parts not round?
TOPICS:
- Gorilla Stand indicator holder!
- Why are lathe parts not round?
- Thermal growth on the Speedio
- Okuma fake CMM
- Heat treating 440c and carbide clumping
- Dishwashing parts at home
7 March 2025, 5:00 am - 49 minutes 31 seconds#404 Life as a small business owner
TOPICS:
- Making ultra flat precision washers
- Fjell knives are starting to selling
- Custom ultra precision indicator stands
- Tarrifs
- Post heat treat hard turning
- Hardmilling success
28 February 2025, 5:00 am - 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
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