Business of Machining

TOPICS:

• Business insurance
• Thermal compensation on Speedio
• Surface grinding deep dive
• Shop improvements

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

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• Making ultra flat precision washers
• Fjell knives are starting to selling
• Custom ultra precision indicator stands
• Tarrifs
• Post heat treat hard turning
• Hardmilling success

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• 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 …

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• "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
• B…

TOPICS:

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

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• 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 pl…

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 gr…

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• 2025 changes
• DOITS
• Leadership roles
• Measuring runout in toolholders
• 5 axis automation at Saunders?
• Team oriented wishlish
• Fjell production update

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

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• 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

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• 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…

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• 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

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• Hardmilling puckchucks on Okuma
• Heat treating ovens
• Fjell pocket clip success!
• Prusa new printers

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• 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
• …

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• Take your kid to work day
• Saunders bought another lathe
• "I'm stumped" - Saunders
• Wazer waterjet at Grimsmo
• Hardmilling

TOPICS:

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

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…

TOPICS:

• Saunders: "Grimsmo, project management is not your strong suit"
• How do you spend your day
• DSI free Fusion Fridays
• Regofix tool change station
• What's a good 5 axis with pallet changer?
• H…