Business of Machining

Topics: Crappy week at the shop Steel choices for Fjell button Home assistant machine monitoring Saunders shop issues Watch show and marketing Lex/Gerp tweaks White light interferometer desire

Topics: Interferometers, vision systems, etc. Blue Photon Bar fed mill Surface grinding and balancing Ai: Fronteir models vs local models MCP servers Entrepreneurship

Topics: Gerp buyers choice Lex rewrite Coolant tank cleaning - bleach flush? DLC coating issues Notebook LM for machine manuals Spindle gripping White light interferometery

Topics: Hearing about automation, implemting it, owning it Probing and subroutine macros DIY vision system Buyers choice ordering system Freddy vacuum

Topics: IMTS coming up Saunders might double their shop space?? Dumb but cool - label maker that prints on heat shrink tubing Actually cool - custom Kennemetal 3d printed 5 function drill  Mori probe calibration issues Bar fed mill

Topics: Hiring Mentors Isotunes hearing protection Costing and process planning

Topics: Satellites and Joe Scott youtube videos DIY linear gage Renishaw OTS wearing tools Shatter by Rob Lockwood Telecentric lens Vibe coding fun

Topics: Leave yourself a good starting point LLM's and software/hardware projects Linear gage projects Vision system, Keyence vs DIY Blum laser install fixed Air compressors down

Topics: Blum laser air upgrade and calibration Air compressor bearing issue Hardmilling endmills vacuum workholding Interferometers DIY metrology

Topics: Grimsmo installs a NAS Computer history museum Machine tool manufacturers Toilet bowl float coolant sensor Total process reliability with Blum laser Foam machining Home assistant

Topics: Air filtration upgrades Horizontal is gone Hardening the automation system Low temp alloys tested! Challenge - elegant solution, want a way for compressors to shut off

Topics: Being proud of yourself Low melt alloys, again Willemmin robot down Norseman lock insert accuracy Sole sourcing material

Topics: Blade show Collaboration knife of the year White light interferometer working! Robot system hiccups cutting steel Overhaul compressor system Wax fixturing success Waterfall cashflow

Topics: Wax fixturing and carbon fiber  Robot outfeed tables SMW machine updates White light interferometer working!? Justin interning at Saunders

Topics: Six types of working genius New intern at Saunders Carbon fiber inlays Fishbone diagram Memory rail photo gallery

Topics: ERP updates Prompt engineering 19 hours of footage from California Brother S500 + UR robot 3d surfacing vs 2d contour Painters tape on toolboxes

Topics: Mammoth summit recap "Do you wnat to be right, or do you want to make money?" - Jim Belosic "40/70 rule" - Jim Belosic Raise your prices? New machines at SMW Grimsmo's shop tours around California "Ask me whatever questions you need before starting this task" "Stop starting and start finishing"

Topics: Chairlift conversations

Topics: Mammoth ski trip Shantaram book Claude programming Internal purchase orders UR robot deburring Custom step drills

Topics: SMW buys more machines - growth eats cash for breakfast Oil contaminating encoders Fusion sketch slowness and diffraction gratings Coolant maintenance ShopVR Watchmaking deep dive

Topics: Dollhouse of SMW custom tips for dial indicators bismuth, wax, thermopolymers Blade fixturing Ai automations Don't go chasing waterfalls Precision microcast podcast

Topics: Shipping and tarrifs Fishbone diagram Clamping induced distortion Managing our growth

Topics: Shop layout in CAD  Slip roll? UR robot on Speedio Haas machine for sale White Light interferometer Non contact measurement

Topics: UMC400 coolant dribble Speedio automation White Light interferometer Ai Agents Johnny Five

Topics: Motorized ball valves and "Shelley plus one" and "switchbot" Diffraction Limited "Micro Manipulator Project" White light interferometer  SendCutSend machining Scrapped 30 blades Put a moat in the calendar