Business of Machining

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• Safe start all operations
• Listening to the "Aquired" podcast
• Leading and coaching strategies
• Hardmilling blades and Puckchucks
• Laser probing grinding wheel accuracy

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• Checking in with your team after being on vacation
• Veritasium video on QR codes
• Grimsmo Fjell updates!
• How to hold incredible tolerances reliably
• Forcing a pause between each operation i…

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• Podcast feedback from IMTS
• Threadmill design change caused issues
• Hardmilling features after heat treat
• Saunders recap of IMTS
• Consultants in manufacturing?

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• IMTS tools and technologies
• Hard gaging
• CMM Machines
• Grimsmo played with a Wire EDM

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• Family vs business
• Aluminum fixtures
• Autodesk CAM Challenge
• IMTS 2024 planning
• Rego-Fix PG hydraulic pressing unit
• Wire EDM Machines

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• Grimsmo's family vacation
• Alarms on Machines
• American Precision Museum in Vermont
• Kern toolsetter issues
• Okuma break detect issues
• Electropolishing metals

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• Accounts receivable issues
• Okamoto surface grinder
• Rask blade issues
• New Willemin at SMW

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• Time off with family
• Inbox zero
• Getting everything DONE
• What systems do you use?  Smart AI stuff?
• Machines and processes

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• Book recommendation: 6 Types Of Working Genius
• Venturi coolant sucker upper
• Normalizing steel for flatness
• Solar power for a shop?
• E-paper display:
  "#17 Using e-ink (epaper) Price Tags (S…

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• 10 year anniversary of being in Ohio
• factory tour of willemin in switzerland and Kern in germany
• Grimsmo Blum update and blade grinding

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• Saunders Okuma Genos spindle update
• Completely off the grid time off
• Kern ballscrew replacement
• Speedio high accuracy mode weirdness
• G68 coordinate shift

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• Saunders needs a new spindle
• Grimsmo Blum probing issues
• Gen 3 mod vises in productions
• Macro programming!!!

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• Grimsmo's Blade Show adventure
• Johnny 5 robot progress!!
• Fusion "ground to parent"
• Shop maintenance?

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• Grimsmo pulling late nights to get his new knife done for Blade Show
• Purchases that are important or not.
• How to lead others and push them
• Great, good, and important companies
• Does anybo…

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• Do I need a "reset"?
• Al Whatmough and Carl Bass leadership skills
• Grimsmo prepping for blade show
• Hardness testing
• UMC350 5 axis machine

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• Grimsmo exploded a 440c button
• Saunders pushed the PuckChuck to failure
• Building the shop to be easy
• Adding a bubbler to a coolant tweaking
• Puck chuck fixtures on the VF2
• Building the d…

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• Integral knife button tweaking
• Thermal growth on steel
• Optical comparator with Baty screen
• 3d printing brim and build plates
• Zero gravity tool suspension device
• - Sloky torque devices
• John…

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• Creativity vs productivity
• Saunders' Willemin is gone
• Project management
• Johnny 5 robot update
• BlackFox Machining box cutter clip
• Awkward DOITS phase

TOPICS:

• weird door alarm on Okuma
• Product design and prototyping
• Tolerancing parts
• Nut runner torque wrenches
• Lapping parts FLAT
• Johnny 5 robot!  

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• Saunders yard sale open house
• Wall control (pegboard)
• Drill press upgrades
• SMW puck chucks and fixture plates
• Willemin calibration procedure
• Probe tips
• Al Whatmough