Business of Machining

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• Grimsmo's Kern had toolchanger errors
• Procedures and process bins
• Power consumption on CNC machines - $0.05/hr for Haas to be on.
• Air compressor maintenance
• selling machines
• DNS settings t…

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• SMW stopping through coolant drill bits
• Utility bills
• Pierre being deported
• Speedio high accuracy mode
• Grinding wheel technology
• Detent ball dropper
• Gen3 mod vises
• Super secret sauce

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• SMW Willemin is fixed!  Replacement Fanuc motor worked.
• Haas UMC350
• Office Phones
• "Lean Built" podcast with Jay and Andrew
• "Sooner, not faster"

       "Slow is smooth, smooth is fast"

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• Grimsmo visited Kern Precision in Chicago!
• Four Areas that will put you out of business
• What I need and want out of the company by the end of the year
• Tour of Lapmaster
•  Saunders made a spla…

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• Maintaining CNC machines
• Process bins!
• Carbon Fiber tips and tricks
• Sandvik drills
• ERP systems managing lead times
• Freshdesk for customer service

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• Work/Life balance
• Okuma Horizontal machining valve covers
•  3d printing parts for the shop
•  Fusion 360 frustrations
•  Grimsmo vising Kern Precision in Chicago
•  Shipping computers
• 3d printed …

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• CMTS tradeshow
• "Tool Aquisition Syndrome"
• Tool life and Sandvik tooling reps
• Polishing small parts
• Saunders designed a door for his surface grinder
• Machine maintenance, Kern and Willemin
• C…

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• Grimsmo crashed the Speedio
• Saunders is surface grinding!
• My dream job
• Willemin U axis errors at SMW
• How do you manage all the tasks and projects?

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• Lots of problems
• Building custom computers for CAD/CAM
• Willemin is sorta broken
• Bambu 3d printers!
• Calibrating printed parts
• Machining carbon fiber in the Speedio
• SMW puckchuck to market

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• Resin 3D printing with Grimsmo's daughter
• how we first learned about CNC machining
• Willemin lathe parts
• Saunders' Okamoto surface grinder runs!
• Coolant foaming
• Process improvements

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• Autodesk Fusion Summit recap
• Spoiled with new equipment, reinvesting in the company
• Willemin updates
• Swiss lathes
• Grimsmo's 1968 Volvo Amazon wagon runs!

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• Grimsmo's heat treat improvements
• SMW puck chuck anodizing
• Scrap metal
• Okamoto surface grinder and UMC350 delivered!
• Bambu 3d Printers

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• Saunders lost power
• Grimsmo to sell his old Eumach machines
• How to re-work parts or call them scrap
• videos of shotgun barrel manufacturing
• heat treating puck chucks
• Setup sheet tool tracker
• Q…

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• Grimsmo grinding blades on the Speedio!
• Growing your company
• metal 3d printing, costs?
• Downcut endmills
• AI image creation and how it relates to machining
• Heat treating SMW Puck Chuck parts
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• Fusion 360 across a team
• DSI Fusion Summit Aug. 22, 2023 in California
• SMW video on coolest unknown trick.
• Cutting through the heat affected zone
• Speedio sub micron option works!
• SMW bough…

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• Coolant management, foaming, etc
• Milwaukee Hermle tour! - https://www.hermleusa.net/en/info_center_en/5axis-summit-usa (Hermle tour) and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7Dygi8uGvA (Machinin…

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• The balance of leadership
• SMW Puck Chuck pallet system!
• Erowa update with Grimsmo
• Selling older machines and fully utilizing what you have

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• Chicago museum of science and technology
• Grimsmo looking at the Sub Micron option for his speedio
• Saunders overhaul to fixture plate Process
• SMW puck chuck!
• Lasers!
• RO water systems and al…

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• Grimsmo was on vacation
• Terminator movie
• Breaking drills on Swiss lathe
• Puck chucks and training classes at SMW
• Speedio grinding
• SMW internal newsletter
• Coolant temperature

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• New equipment for Saunders!  Grinder, laser, 5-axis.
• tips for youtube channels
• Surface grinder notes from Adam Demuth
• Grimsmo grinding blades on the speedio
• PTO forms