Business of Machining

TOPICS:

• Drilling and tool life
• Through spindle coolant
• Speedio S500 details
• Argon results in heat treat
• Gorilla stand

TOPICS:

• Argon purging heat treat bags
• Revisiting tool life in steel
• Tapping, form tapping, threadmilling
• Machining graphite

TOPICS:

• I hate rework
• Aligning the Erowa chuck on the Kern
• Expanding clamps
• One piece flow vs batchwork

TOPICS:

• Saunders smashed his finger
• Met NileRED
• What's the ideal retirement home shop?
• Corporate Saga pens
• Inventory
• Vapor blasting

TOPICS:

• Atlanta retrieval mission
• Kern coolant float fixed-ish
• Johnny Five motor gears
• M2 buttons
• Dave Precise episode on Within Tolerance

TOPICS:

• Air compressor and coolant problems
• Johnny Five electrical schematic
• M2 steel testing
• Hard threading
• Prototyping 5 axis parts

TOPICS:

• UPS knives to Blade Show still stuck in Atlanta
• 465 Custom stainless steel
• Firechrome material
• Reinvest or take out money?
• Was there a point where you wanted to throw in the towel?

TOPICS:

• Crazy adventures at Blade Show 2025
• Saunders crashed the Okuma
• Moduleworks visited SMW

TOPICS:

• Kern runs great now!  
• Normal days vs rework days
• High, Low, Buffalo
• Blade Show 2025
• 465 custom material
• Helicoil stories

TOPICS:

• Coolant maintenance
• Kern is fixed!  We realigned B axis ourselves
• Johnny Five AI audio
• Setup sheets
• Automating bevel grinding

TOPICS:

• Kern crashed
• VM3 coolant actually went bad
• Surface grinding with Robin Renzetti

TOPICS:

• Toolpath team visited SMW
• Mechanical pencil deep dive
• Measuring grinding wheels
• Wogaurd coolant sucker upper https://www.wogaard.com/coolant_saver.html
• Surface grinding on the Tormach PS…

TOPICS:

• Speedio looping the program over and over
• Saunders programmed a part in Toolpath
• Waterjet profile is wrong
• Johnny Five is under control!
• Smelly coolant

TOPICS:

• Toronto knife show
• Grindmilling
• Toolpath mistake
• Arda and ERP systems
• Renzetti 1-2-3 blocks
• Johnny 5 turned on for the first time!

TOPICS:

• Superglue fixtures
• Toolpath.com
• Passion for machines and projects
• Cycle time evaluations
• Grindmilling

TOPICS:

• Prussian blue is amazing.
• Bambu H2D 3d printer
• Calibrating a 5 axis machine
• Hand scraping deep dive
• Tormach 1500 MX

TOPICS:

• Mentality around tariffs
• Button lock geometry
• Buy prussian blue
• Hardmill all the things

TOPICS:

• Robots
• Demagnetizing 4140 bars
• Rolex
• Johnny 5 track drives
• Probing for accuracy

TOPICS:

• Fusion PSA on heights tab
• Measuring ultra precision
• Heat treating improvements
• Tormach 1500mx updates