TOPICS:

• We want to see everyone Win
• Shop rags
• Kern spindle is coming in 2 weeks
• Willemin updates!
• The future of manufacturing?
• ChatGPT
• heat treating parts
  
  

TOPICS:

• Kern update, it is running!
• Planned downtime
• Lost packages in shipping
• Lapping and flatness
• Saunders air conditioner fix
• Fixturing Ideas
• Haas purple grease

Link: https://saundersmachineworks.com/products/smw-zero-point-system

TOPICS

• Willemin machines are awesome!
• Yates precision IG link
• Kern needs a new spindle
• Saunders had to fix a Helicoil

TOPICS:

• The cost of team trips and lunches
• Grimsmo visits the Elliott Matsuura Joint Open House
• Youtube!
• Grimsmo's CMM
• Prototyping SMW zero point fixtures

TOPICS:

• Removing yourself from the company
• Okuma tool load monitoring
• SMW purge of old stuff
• Gridfinity!
• Process bins
• Haas lubrication system

We're selling some equipment, workholding, etc!  Info at https://www.nyccnc.com/for-sale/

TOPICS:

• The life of a business
• Unwillingness to let go of control
• Giving a tour to Toyota employees
• Storing production tools
• Selling unused tools
• Process bins!
• Chip build up on the Okuma
  
  

Topics:

• SMW Okuma is 1yr old!
• cash budgeting and spending money
• A2 bushings heat treat
• Formlabs resin printer
• Willemin making the Saga clip
• Fire hazards with oil machines
• Process bins!

Topics:

• MTDCNC visited Grimsmo
• Net 30 customers
• SMW Zero point system
• Willemin 2d wrap toolpaths
• 140 hours a week of Kern run time
• Fastems 
• Tool life management
• Bambu 3d printer

TOPICS:

• Biscuits with the boss
• Willemin works!  From both teams!
• Pipe organs
• hiring
• Kern crash at Grimsmo
• Bambu 3d printer

TOPICS:

• Interviewing and hiring people
• Lasers!
• Bambu 3D printer
• Shipping processes and job turnover
• Willemin and oil

TOPICS:

• Willemin progresses from both teams!
• Shipping mistakes led to innovation
• Lifestyle creep
• Bambu 3D printer
• dedicated tools in machines

Topics:

• Origin of John and John meeting in 2015
• Saunders gave a speech: "Ways to automate a shop without spending 6 figures"
• Youtube content!
• Willemin!
• swiss machines and dual channel machines
• DIY Spectrometer and lasers
• visit shops and bring questions
• can we implement automated workholding?

Topics:

• Willemin updates!
• Cutting wood in Grimsmo's router to clean endmills
• Lasers!!!  
• Saunders had a huge win on the Horizontal
• Cast Iron lapping plates
• Visit to Borne and Co

Topics:

• Lapping plates
• wood blocks in the router
• Willemin!
• Okuma is running deep into the night
• expensive power bills
• Machining Cast iron
• Material inventory
• Sharing responsibilities
• breaking taps
• sacrificial wood block in the router
• Inspecting parts and improving processes

Topics:

• Machining cast iron is dumb
• Grimsmo making hand-lapping plates
• Saunders giving a keynote speech on Okuma 2023 Technology Showcase
  Link: https://www.okuma.com/events/okuma-2023-technology-showcase 
• CNC training classes
• Bambu 3d printer
• Willemin
• Lasers!
• Packaging!
• Inventory of products

Topics:

• "the world is not perfect".  Making parts to tolerance.
• cutting foam
• Insurance claims
• Lasers!
• making small parts with vacuum
• Lapping parts to ultimate flatness
• Willemin install at SMW
  
  

Topics:

• Team meetings
• hiring shipping staff and leading a Team
• feedback from listeners
• Detent ball dropper in Grimsmo's Kern works!
• Tool load monitoring on the Okuma
• laser engraving!
• Saunders has the LS3655 100w laser
• Saunders' Willemin machine arrives tomorrow!

Topics:

• Distractions and losing time
• tool life hacks on Haas machines
• Grimsmo's router works!  
• Grimsmo's Willemin works too!  
• Henry Holsters visited SMW
• Inventory and sub assemblies
• Detent ball dropper designs
• CAM help for Saunders

Topics:

• oil failure on Okuma horizontal
• Grimsmo's Kern got a new tool changer dampener
• vacuum pump for CNC Router
• all about returning products
• process bins!
• drilling an angled hole
• logging information, standardizing

Topics:

• Grimsmo's CNC Router
• Saunders got a Saga pen for Christmas
• Machining copper tips and tricks
• process bins

Topics:

• Saunders is getting a Willemin!  
• Purchase process, options chosen, etc.
• Machine shop insurance
• Saunders python script for tool setup is working!
• ChatGPT and Dall-E

Topics:

• Surface grinding blades, milling fixture plates, flatness flatness flatness!
• ISO9001 certification
• Implementing procedures through the shop
• Dedicate tools for dedicated parts
• Inventory count
• Foam

Topics:

• New full-time employee at SMW
• Hiring and firing
• Grimsmo's lathe machinist taking a month vacation
• really tough week at SMW
• complicatons of robots
• sharing your vision
• Fusion 360 video
• Growing a team, getting them to solve problems

Topics:

• Saunders went to North Carolina, shop ran well without him!
• Autodesk event
• Grimsmo working on improving his Kern, toured a flavor factory
• Saunders toured an egg factory
• Tracking process flow through the shop
• Managing your tasks
• Crashing machines

Topics:

• I love lathes
• Planning workflow on automated CNC machines
• Saunders updating fixtures
• Grimsmo's router and custom foam
• custom oil bottles for nano oil

Topics:

• Grimsmo's CNC router is coming together
• Design review meetings
• Custom Fusion 360 tool management script!
• Willemin coolant or oil.  
• IMTS tooling claim
• PNMU insert for 4140

Topics:

• year in review
• packaging, costs
• Continuous improvement, lean manufacturing
• Routers, Willemin, etc.
• GoPro and audio technology
• Selling used CNC machines
• "Greg" buying manufacturing companies

Topics:

• Saunders got 2 new Haas machines delivered for their training classes
• Grimsmo building their CNC router
• printing with TPU flexible filament
• Taco Bell and Okuma crashes
• recording quality audio

Topics:

• Grimsmo's Willemin machine
• dealing with tough conversations
• Creating a metrology lab
• Mill-Turn machines, Tsugami, Willemin, Mazak
• Long term thinking
• Reverse osmosis water systems for coolants
• building an enclosure for Grimsmo's CNC router

Topics:

• Designing a chip conveyor
• replacing a Blum probe
• costs to service machinery
• stop using e-mail for internal communication
• duplicate SKUs, Shopify

Topics

• Saunders running his horizontal mill 18 hours a day
• Making custom Porsche parts
• kids in the shop
• Grimsmo crunched the probe tip on his Speedio with custom programming
• Chip management on the Speedio
• probing, manual programming

Topics

• Grimsmo releasing a new case for their Saga printer
• 3d printing for production
• cardboard packaging
• Autodesk Fusion meetup in December https://www.dsi-mfg.com/fusion-summit-2022
• multiple computers for workflow
• tool breakage control

Topics:

• Machining is the coolest thing ever
• "failing as a business leader if we don't purge our junk"
• "what do I want in the next 6 months" 
• how to hire and train new people quickly?
• Variance accounting
• SMW online training classes

Topics:

• "The only constant is change"
• Near fatal car accident for SMW employee and how it affects the company
• Saunders' wife filling in
• perpetual biggest failure?
• can do great things when able to focus, but...
• 4 new employees at SMW in the past 72 hrs
• Tornos update from Grimsmo
• Running machines unattended overnight

Topics

• Fired up after IMTS
• Authenticity in marketing
• Willemin booth at IMTS, all about lathes!
• Takeaways from the show
• shop update video
• Mini chip conveyor on the Speedio machine
• Check valve on coolant nozzles
• Opportunity cost of being an entrepreneur

Topics:

• Richlite
• purchasing high dollar items and utilizing cash to your benefit
• Joe Rogan and Zuck Podcast
• "I've won"
• philosophy of business
• Grimsmo is in love with his Speedio machine!
• Zero point workholding
• Miyano lathe

Topics:

• IMTS trade show
• Willemin machines
• classic growing problems. Chip management and recycling
• Machine prices at trade shows
• Grimsmo working on the speedio
• How to teach and train your team high level skills to scale your company
• bite off more than you can chew, then chew
• book reference/resources

Topics:

• Vacation + Work Trip: Autodesk Event in Birmingham, England
• Saunders, A Pilot/CNC Book Author, Tormach 770 MX, and an Escalator
• KERN Spews and Sputters Coolant Everywhere at Grimsmo Knives
• KAESER Air Compressor Coats Entire Shop in Fine Oil Mist
• New Tool Syndrome: Forklift Edition
• Abom79's SMW Shop Tour Video
• Speedio Training for GK Team
• BLUM Laser Tool Setter Installation Blues
• The Johns Gush Over CNC Machine Design Aesthetics
• Sticker Bombed: Erowa Pallet System from IMTS 2018
• Low Coolant Sensor
• CNC Lathe Talk

CHECK IT OUT!

TOPCIS:

• Grimsmo is having massive power problems that caused some awkward solutions.
• The boys talk about the value of business insurance.
• Willemin and Speedio updates!
• Saunders goes into a deep dive with their LEX erp software.
• 3D printing with magnets!

Topics:

• Incremental Business Growth Experiences
• Real Estate - Build or Buy Existing? Area 419 Tour
• Baby Brother Speedio Arrives Friday at GK!
• The Marvel of Rigging CNC Machines
• Shipping Insurance - Is it worth it?
• Legal Counsel - Sometimes a Letter Will Do!
• Chips on Willemin, Inserts, Adding Sharpie, and BANG ON Tolerances
• Precision Microcast 15 with Christian Wenzel Innolite 

TOPICS:

• John & John crashed the Willemin, Okuma & Kern, yikes...
• Grimsmo getting the Willemin to measure probe length.
• How to calibrate your spindle probe length.
• Saunders is finishing us a big fixture plate order.

Topics:

- SMW Relaunches CNC Training Courses in a New Center!
- Grimsmo Tweaks Grinding Process on KERN
- Should You Max Out Spindles That Run Less Than 20K RPM?
- Brother Speedio + Auto Door Coming to GK Soon!
- International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS) 
- Okuma Mist Collector Activation Issue
- Reorganizing Endmills
- GERP Update, Inventory, Operations, Tooling, Purchase Orders

TOPCIS:

• We finally get closure on Judd
• Mama Grimsmo is visitng for the first time since 2019!
• Grimsmo starts getting great results after a much needed training sesisons from the CMM.
• Saunders dives into endmills and surface finishes.
• Metrology!!!
• Grimsmo has been on a rabbit hole to try to make their saga mechanisims better.
• Saunders chats about probing issues.

Topics:

- Saunders opens up about his 11- year CNC companion
- Grimsmo takes on more duties while Angelo attends CMM Training
- Eumachs Sold! Avid CNC Router to cut foam for GK
- SMW Training begins July 19th
- Renishaw Probe Repair & Settings
- Willemin/WileMILL Probe Issues & 3D Printed Key Bracket
- HDPE Plastic Warp: Will annealing solve the lakes/hills?
- Rust Prevention: Looking for Input!

TOPICS:

• John Grimsmo came in to learn the new Zeiss CMM until 4am.
• Saunders is experiencing variations on some parts.
• Learning more about epoxy tombstones
• The oldest Renishaw probe cracked the glass.
• Grimsmo provides an update on the Speedio & Tornos oil issues.
• Saunders has his training class start in only 3 weeks!

Topics:

• Task Lists and Being Overwhelmed
• Hiring Employees, Time Management, Efficiencies
• Priority List: Dump & Triage Tasks
• Okuma Fixture Offset Calibration
• Horizontals with Intrinsic 4th Axis: No rotation around center line!?
  • Tool Orientation in Fusion 360 doesn't seem to work for Saunders
• Ultrasonic Cleaning Systems
• Internal Conflict Between Nerd & Entrepreneur:  A 15 Year Debate
• Robots. Saunders gets random call from a guy at Tormach. Use for demagging material?
• Horizontal Fixture Overhaul

TOPCIS:

• John & John chat about what it is like to be a self taught machinist.
• Saunders made a little bit of a mistake on the horizontal.
• The boys chat about having no manager only roles inside their company.
• Grimsmo got the Zeiss CMM installed to help measure EVERYTHING!
• The benefits of using glass materials for accuracy.
• Chip thinning and rubbing on endmills.

Topics:

Tool Life & Part Finish Issues
Grimsmo & Saunders brainstorm solutions for less than ideal tool life and part finishes.
- Speeds & Feeds
- Brand Loyalty & Tools That Don't Cut It (pun intended)
- Tool Coating
- 2D Contour Wall Finish
- NYC CNC Chip Thinning Calculator
- Coolant VS. Dry Cutting with Through-Spindle Air blast
- Reaching Occluded Precision Features

CNC Machines
- Kern makes a move on skates
- Minor Tweaks to the Erowa Pallet System
- Brother Speedio headed to Grimsmo Knives
- ZEISS CMM, where are you? Also, who is going to learn Calypso!?
- Converting the Willemin from Metric to Imperial

Lives of Entrepreneurs - The Second Half of Your Life
- Hobbies
- Accepting Changes Gracefully
- The Importance of Developing Meaningful Friendships

NYC CNC Training Classes are BACK!

TOPCIS:

• Saunders is machining parts for Johnny 5
• What is a tool room?
• Coolant & air conditioners.
• Grimsmo has a daunting task to move the Kern over to make room for the speedio.
• Saunders did an oil change on the horizontal and jammed up the chip conveyor.
• Knife grinder discussion.
• Expoy tombstone is in!

TOPICS:
- Preparing for Economic Recession Video
- Better Business Decisions: Evolving from a Short Term to Long Term Mindset
- Saunders gets personal about life, ambitions, and expectations
- Make Sure YOUR Goals are Finite
- Softening of Tech Market/Industry, Cash Flow, & Borrowing Money
- KERN Damper Life & Replacement
- FREE WAY TO INCREASE MACHINE TOOL LIFE!
- Okuma Tool Break Detection & Break Control
- KERN Workflow for Bang On Bore Sizes
- Wear Comp, Speroni Tool Presetter for Measuring Tool Diameter
- DIY Tombstone Pour
- Keith Rucker's Video on Concrete Mold for Casting

- Grimsmo's Belt Grinder Advice
- SAGA Pen and Pocket Book
- Precision Microcast with Adam Demuth & Nicholas Hacko
- Turning on the Willemin

• Saunders talks about his origin story.
• The boys chat about the importance of education, wether school or investing in yourself.
• Grimsmo is dialing in the issues they are having with the swiss lathe pump.
• Saunders gives updates on the ever changing LEX ERP system.
• The boys talk about the movie "The Founder" about the origin story of Mc Donalds.
• Saunders has 2 new hires starting next week!
• Grimsmo crashes the tool changer on the Willemin.

• Saunders is visiting Wichita State University for Project MFG.
• Grimsmo has a ton of updates, open house, tornos problems & willemin progress.
• Saunders dives into the horizontal process control.
• Mobile machine shops?!?
• Teaching the teachers.
• Grimsmo is starting to use their ERP system to track procedures throughout the company.
• Saunders learns the hard way not to rush a project before a trip.
• Grimsmo updates on the CMM and Speedio machines.

TOPICS:

• Grimsmo finally have their Willemin machine fully functional and ready for parts.
• CAM Programming tips and tricks.
• Material shortages and price hikes.
• Preparing for a slowdown.
• Grimsmo has swiss coolant pump issues.
• Making tombstones for horizontal machines.
• Saunders will be judging on Project MFG in Kansas next week!

TOPICS:

• Grimsmo's Willemin Works!
• Saga Pen Clips & Workholding Brainstorm Session
• Brother Speedio & Zeiss CMM: Lead Times Could Cause Time Crunch
• SWISS CHEESE? A New Pump Could Solve the Tornos Oil/Coolant Issue
• IMTS 2022 & Autodesk University
• Saunders talks additional building, Okuma Horizontal Production Workflow, & Re-Starting Training Classes!
• Digital Depth Micrometers
• Saunders and Alex embark on a DIY Tombstone Design for the Horizontal
• Grimsmo Wiki: The Place Where Odd Fanuc Stuff Lives
• 86 GERP, We'll Take Google App Sheets, PLEASE!

• Lending companies for buying machines & early payment policies.
• Sauders root story, attitude towards prepayment.
• Saunders shop tour with Adam Demult
• Horizontal machining challeneges.
• Air compressor maintenance time with Grimsmo.
• Willemin updates.

TOPICS:

- Process Capability Index (CPK) - Six Sigma? 
- Batch Production in the Auto Industry
- 3D Printed Haas Parts Catcher & Grimsmo Knives Fixture Loader
- Heat Treat Sandwich & Stacking Blades
- Vendor Relationships: MAKE SURE YOU HAVE DETAILED PRINTS
- Okuma Post Modifications: Almost a Catastrophe
- GAME CHANGER: The "Compare To" Feature in Visual Studio Code
- Shop Computers & Remote Desktop
- Lights Out Production & Air Compressor Ball Valve Solution

TOPCIS:

• Saunders is probing on the horizontal.
• Grimsmo is finalizing their Brother Speedio purchase.
• Installing tools on the horizontal.
• Saunders' had a bad day.
• Grimsmo Tornos oil updates.
• Willemin updates & CMM purchases.

TOPICS: 

- Okuma Horizontal: After Hours Machining Dream
- Why We Bought a Horizontal Video
- Fusion 360: Changing Tools at Master Library Level? 
- Renishaw Probing, Okuma Probing, and Macro Variables
- Fixturing, Solving Tolerance Issues, Post Modifications
- Multiple Tolerance Ranges
- Metrology Tools
- Update on Grimsmo's Swiss Coolant/Clarified Butter

• Grimsmo is expanding!
• Never Split The Difference - Buy Now
• Dedicating employees are doing so much more!
• Saunders had a dumpster fire of a morning.
• Grimsmo probing issues on the Kern.
• Saunders is thinking about getting a Brother Speedio before Grimsmo pulls the trigger on theirs.
• Small business healthcare in the USA.
• CMM fixture plates for Grimsmo's new Zeiss CMM.

Topics: 

• Okuma MB-4000H Arrives at SMW
  • 3 Tombstones Loaded
  • Training on Collision Avoidance to Begin
  • Delayed Chip Conveyor Appears
  • Important PSA about Buying CNC Machines & Paying Invoices
• Zeiss DuraMax CMM for Grimsmo Knives
  • Active VS Passive Scanning: Zeiss Tour
  • Part Deviation
  • Fixturing/ Work Holding
  • Bourn & Koch Tour
  • Occam's Razor & Eliminating Setups
• Air Quality Meters
  • Temtop M2000
  • Tsunami 21999-0440-R
• Leadership & Management
  • At least we're not THAT person!

COMING SOON

• • Manager Meetings at SMW
  • Creations Unlimited Tour with Dennis Rathi

• John & John share their recent persectives on life & sharing information online.
• Custom quotes in Shopify.
• Choosing manager, book on "setting the table".
• Grimsmo is going to play in a CMM room for a day.
• Saunders provides a horizontal update.
• Grimsmo is still dealing with swiss althe oil problems. 

Topics:

• Grimsmo's Swiss could have an air leak OR a bad batch of coolant
• Okuma MB-4000H is here but the coolant tank is delayed!
• Willemin, Kern, and Speedio Updates
• Saunders shares his tour experience at Creations Unlimited - Video Coming Soon!
• Decision Making & Organizational Chart Changes
• Emphasis on Communication, ERP Data Tracking

GOOD READS

Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business by Daniel Meyer

Small Giants: Companies that Choose to be Great Instead of Big by Bo Burlingham

High Output Management by Andrew Grover

TOPICS:

John Grimsmo breaks down the barrier with a brief history of starting Grimsmo Knives. Its not always easy, but it is the most rewarding thing that they have ever set out to achieve. Personal and professional growth is immense.

TOPICS:

• Saunders and his team anxiously await the Okuma MB-4000H
  • Building Inventory + Moving Machines
  • Programming Tombstones
  • Post Modifications: Date & Timestamp & G11 Coordinate Plane Rotation
• Grimsmo's Eumachs are for sale!
• Haas chip filter system, Bringing Products to Market, and Small Victories
• The E-Myth Revisited: Technician VS. Entrepreneur

• Sharing info on YouTube.
• Buying machines and how to choose their options.
• FOCUS UP!
• DIY chip conveyor and paper band filter.
• Coolant control.
• Buying horizontal machines and Brother Speedio.
• CNC controls on a new machine & providing power.

TOPICS:

• Don't ignore Windows 7 & Fusion 360 Incompatibility Warning! Windows 7 causes CAM kernel errors.
• Visual Studio Code: Hot Exit = Hot Mess. Disable hot exit to prevent VS code from reposting older versions of code!
• Greenshot for PC screenshots
• Optimal Printer Location and Rubber Stamps?
• Fiber Laser Engravers: RAYCUS, Mactron-Tech, + Cloudray
• Tool Matrix Options
• Finding Joy: Sometimes it looks like pushing cycle start
• Rigid Tapping Load Limit: Stopping too soon or not soon enough.
• UC Berkley Tour Video: Genius Spring Mechanism
• Measuring an Arbor Press with a Hydraulic Cylinder

TOPICS:

• Grimsmo removed a spindle on their Willemin.
• Saunders is bringing back CNC training classes. Click me for more.
• Grimsmo is building a new CNC router.
• Saunders has passed a fixture plate off to a different shop.
• Saunders has ordered his horizontal machine!
• Grimsmo scrapped a part on the Kern.

TOPICS:

• How to have a crappy day (vendor issues, forklift gets stuck)
• Grimsmo considers adding 2 Brother Speedio Machines
• Graphite EDM Vacuum Setup, Manual Indexers, UR Robots
• Purchasing Horizontal CNC Machines, Tool Matrix     Considerations, & Tombstone Workholding
• Purchasing CNC Machines: Travel, Weight Capacity,
• Automation Washdown & Spin Drying Parts
• Want to take over the DeWalt product line at SMW?
• Culture Code & Clear Communication
• Deep Dive on the Fancy Chip Conveyor

TOPCIS:

• Horizontal Machining centers for 3 axis machines.
• Renishaw touch probes. Double vs single touch.
• Grimsmo thinking hard about buying a Datron Neo.
• Saunders is still dreaming about a Hermle RS1 pallet changing 5 axis machine.
• Porsche update from Saunders on his 944.

Topics:

• KERN calls in sick at Grimsmo Knives
• Pride in Work & Small Business Culture: Read Small Giants!
• Last Part for Willemin Arrives Today!
• Eumach Spindles
• 3D Printing: Voron & Prusa
• Haas DT-2 
• Saunders' Porche
• Grimsmo Debates the Fate of the Mori

TOPCIS:

• A year in review from both Saunders & Grimsmo.
• Taking guilt free time off.
• Grimsmo got a Voron v0 3d printer.
• Performance reviews for employees.
• Putting pride into your work.

TOPICS:

• Small Business Growth & Efficiency
  • Staffing Concerns
• Handling Potentially Fraudulent Orders
• Work Culture & Employee Impact
• Eumachs, Power Outages, and New Quenching Plates for Heat Treat
• Automating Processes
  • IoT: Operating on "If this, then that"
  • Don't Automate for the Sake of It
• Performance Reviews for Employees

TOPCIS:

• Winding down 2021.
• 3 Things that Grimsmo and Saunders that changed their businesses this year.
• Deep dive into ERP systems.
• Grimsmo ran their Kern for 136.5 hours last week!
• What makes us successful?

TOPICS:

• Bootstrapper VS Life Style Creeper: Which Gets a Seat at the Table?
• Production Hurdles at GK
  - Machining
  - Heat Treat
  - Surface Grinding
  - Processes
  - Tabbing Strategies: AutoDesk...we need a 2D Contour Tab Finishing Strategy PLZ!
• Shift Toward Cycle Time Improvement
• SMW Pipe Dream?
• New Stabilization Product Sells Like Hot Cates at SMW
• Quality of Life Improvements
  • Jib Crane
  • Plate Inventory Storage Crates
  • CDI Meters: WHY DIDN'T ANYONE MENTION THESE BEFORE!?
  • Optical Comparator
• Can High Demand Be Dangerous?
• Willemin Repairs #worthit

TOPCIS:

• Small Giants: Great book about growing a company.
• Sourcing a new chain hoist.
• Cogsdill burnishing tool.
• Business Vs. Personal life.
• Measuring the pressure on the arbor press.

TOPICS: 

- DIY a Monochromatic Light Source & Optical Flats from Ukraine

- Geeking Out: Zeiss- From Eye Doc to CNC Machine Shop

- ERP System Development: Are We There Yet?

- 10 Rules for Entrepreneurial Success 

- Okuma Chip Conveyor - Wasting Pans!

- Ultrasonic Cleaners

- The NEW Prusa: Don't Over-Engineer Parts!

- Thanksgiving in the USA

We really appreciate everyone who tunes in to listen, everyone who has helped us along the way, and everyone who is part of the CNC family!

TOPICS:

• Saunders got his Okuma chip conveyer this morning.
• Horizontal milling machines.
• Haas lathe origin went wonky.
• Grimsmo is diving into optical flats. Watch this!
• Rask blade surface finish issues.
• Willemin updates.

TOPICS: 

 - Fraud and small businesses: Don't be emotional; make a protocol!

- Okuma Training & Pre-Staged Tooling Quirk in OSP: Post Processor Solution?

- Starrett Optical Comparator & Mitutoyo Electronic Indicator

- Visible Valley in Knife Spine: How to Pinpoint the Problem

- Debate on Hiring Gives Saunders New Perspective

- Higher Education: Is is a Must?

Read 10 pages per night! 

The Hard Thing About Hard Things - Ben Horowitz

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't

TOPICS:

• Student internships & explaining machining to a 16 year old.
• Willemin updates!
• Grimsmo purchased an optical comparator and it is incredible.
• Horizontal milling machines.
• Saunders' Okuma is getting isntalled.
• Daily to do lists is huge! 

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Topics:

• Grimsmo shares exciting updates about the powered up Willemin as Saunders eagerly awaits word on his own Willemin!
• Loading Code Onto Machines (Sneakernet, Ethernet, and Floppy Disks)
• Deep Dive into Automation Cells, Robot Arms, & Erowa Pallet System
  • Haberle automation cell for Fanuc Robodrills:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v53DmWinRWk
    -
• Okuma is arriving at SMW! Good thing they've got Northern Tool rigging skates
• Horizontal Milling Machines
• Podcast winner, "Stress is a choice."
• Starrett Optical Comparator strapped to the top of a Miada?

TOPICS:

• Saunders had a humbling experience shooting and editing a video to completion again! Watch here.
• New air compressors.
• Optical comparators.
• 8 Deadly wastes - D.O.W.N.T.I.M.E
• Saunders is getting his Okuma very soon!
• Grimsmo gets the Willemin powered up!

Topics:

- Okuma TMAC Tool Monitoring & Tracking
- POCKET SIZED INDUSTRIAL 5-AXIS MACHINE BY CHIRON
- Automation Systems (HERMLE RS-1)
- Heat Shrink Automation Cell
- Zeiss Microscope
- Robots VS Cobots (FANUC, KUKA, & UR)
- PODCAST CONTEST WINNER ANNOUCEMENT!
- KERN Micro HD - The Benefits of Hydrostatic
- Grimsmo searches for more 3-32 through-coolant drill bit
- Troubleshooting Bowed Parts 

TOPICS:

• "Clouds & dirt"
• Saunders is improving Lex work orders.
• Email screenshots to businessofmachining@gmail.com
• Saunders is jumping into different roles.
• Grimsmo had the kern running for 39 hours!
• Saunders new Okuma is 2 weeks away.
• Shop updates, more space?
• Grimsmo has a potential collaboration in the work.

Topics: 

- 240 is a special number! Grimsmo and Saunders share their experiences with the Volvo 240. 

- Shipping & Receiving at SMW Needs Work and LEx (ERP System) Has become a Nightmare

- WIllemin: Something is Definitely Missing 

- Air Compressors and Paralysis by Analysis 

- Why Aren't We Making Money? Livestream

- Shiny Happy Challenge Coins from Vince 

- 3D Printed Chip Augers for the Haas 

- Tweaking Tool Life on the KERN 

- Fresh Desk: A way to centralize customer service and communication for small businesses

TOPCIS:

• Saunders chats about LEX and what ERP systems cannot handle.
• Grimsmo had a week off from the shop and was able to get tons of programming done.
• Willemin is almost up and running!
• Saunders received the Shapeoko HDM.

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TOPICS: 

- Power Surges at GK after a night of thunderstorms
- Haas Tap Recovery is GREAT!
- Scary Haas Software Bug on Haas
- Internet Speed: Don't Overlook Your Router's Limits!
- Live Stream about LEx ERP System
- Grimsmo's Vacation
- Grimsmo Explains 75 Hard
- Power to the Willemin
- The Excitement of Buying Used Machine Tools

TOPCIS:

• Saunders toured 3rd gen machine in Utah.
• John & Erik finished their latest book and are working closer than ever.
• Inventory management.
• Ted Lasso!
• Flood sensors and coolant filling.
• High feed endmills.
• DHL Issues.

TOPICS: 

• Spindle Utilization - Both Johns calculate the weekly percentage of working hours for their machines and discuss factors that affected those outcomes.
• Don't let the ERP become the company POS!  
• Internal Culture & Branding 
• Mori Spindle Time Increase - Grimsmo is tracking spindle time so he can make in-process tweaks to get MORe out of the Mori
• Upcoming Business Videos That Everyone Needs
  • Why isn't my business making money!? 
  • Economic Downturns & How to Protect Your Business
• Warranty Repairs for GK: Is there a good solution?
• WILLEMIN, KEARN, & ESA INSPECTION
• Shipping Errors - Saunders and Grimsmo share recent shipping mistakes and preventative measures to implement. 
• Grimsmo Bros Book Club: Erik and John are reading Attraction by Gino Wickman to make big plans for the future of GK.  Is this the Grimsmo Finer Things Club!?

TOPCIS:

• Mental health in running a business.
• Asking why 5 times.
• Saunders got a new machine! Okuma M660!
• All about surface grinding and finishing.
• Robot Pallet Loader?
• Process reliability.
• Think of something you are grateful for every night.

Topics: 

• Accountabilibuddies & Truth
• Relentless by Tim Grover
• Hardmilling Speeds & Feeds
• CBN Endmills for Norseman
• Variable Feedrate & CNC Acceleration/Deceleration
• Adam the Machinist: Carbide for Hardmilling
• Zedaro Cutting Tools (WNT, Ceratizit, etc.)
• De Boer Tool in Toronto, Canada
• Weird Alarm on KERN
• Saunders considers custom drills
• LSC, Sandvik, Magical McMaster
• Process Reliability Disciples 
• Cost Per Edge
• Dobson Pipe Organ Fire & Pipe Organ Tuning Tools

TOPICS:

• CBN Endmill testing.
• Humble vs confidence.
• Saunders building accounting data to LEX.
• Grimsmo is going to use oil on the willemin.
• Rushing emergency parts.
• Saunders solves lathe chatter.
• Saunders playing with a new shop layout.

TOPICS:

• Naming Products and Businesses
• Willemin Update: Oil or Coolant? While the machine can run both, after a 17- year run with oil, the experts advise Grimsmo not to change. Fire suppression is a must!
• CHANGE THAT WHEEL! Grimsmo creates an alert for the KERN.
• CNC ALARM: Tool Radius Too Large & Cutter Compensatio
• Fusion 360 View Toolpath, Show Points, and Smoothing
• Rodico Putty - Green > Blue?
• Machine Tool Weldments VS. Castings
• Resonance VS. Dampening by Spencer Webb
• Tornos: Cracked Guide Bushing
• Communication for Small Businesses
• Liquid Nitrogen Generator?
• Shipping & Freight (we assure you, there's nothing too large for a freight carrier to lose). 

TOPICS:

• Grimsmo got their Willemin delivered.
• How to be eternally optimistic.
• Ted Lasso - Show
• The Last Dance - Show
• Atomic Habits - Book
• Relentless by Tim Grover - Link
• Winning by Tim Grover - Link
• Saunders got their ERP system all knowing.
• Saunders Marketing director is doing great!

Topics:

• Saunders Get Hosed by the DIY CNC Machine Washdown System
• Plastic VS Brass Quick Disconnects
• Grundfos MQ3-35 Pump
• The Worst Freightmare Ever: A Perfect Storm
• Customs Duties & Warranty Work
• Ted Lasso - A Dose of Optimism & Leadership
• Threading 
• Fusion 360 Imperial VS. Metric for .STL file export & Improved Contour Selection
• Multi-Part Probing & Renishaw Macros
• Re-cutting Chips, High Feed Mill, Swiss Cheese Fixture

TOPICS:

• Saunders' grandfather has a great quote: "if something is wrong, and it can be fixed, fix it, and if you can't, don't worry about it".
• International shipping via DHL.
• Grimsmo bid on his first machinery auction!
• Saunders is still fine tuning coolant washdown system.
• Kern senses pallets loading.
• Airtags to track shipments?

Topics: 

• Tour of Miltera
• CMM machines and Tolerances on Norseman Features
• Born & Koch - Grinding Wheels on a Mill
• Sweetwater Sound, Inc. - Business Plans and Visions
• Willemin Update
• Stainless Steel SFM & Endmill Chipping

TOPICS:

• Grimsmo tries to figure out a Kern alarm he has never seen before.
• SMW got their new DT2 milling machine and it is QUICK!
• Saunders is taking a Javascript course to edit post processors better.

TOPICS:

• Business Problem Solving & Developing Systems
• DIY Coolant Washdown System
• Shipping, Customer Service
• Air Compressor/Drain System IoT Failure
• Google Sheet To Do List
• Thingyverse RC F1 Car: 3D Printed Parts & Inspiration
• Pro-Active Machine Shop Maintenance
• Learning the KERN - Mid Routine Program Restart: Heidenhain Block Scan, Haas Setting 36
• Programming G-Code using Visual Studio Code Detecting Syntax Errors
• Grimsmo Knives Shop Tour Video
• Fluke Power Meter Determines Power Availability for Willemin
• Growth Vs. Scaling: Approaching with Caution
• Sister Tools & Multiple CNC Mills
• Lathe Tooling & Tool Life
• Seco Quick Change Toolholder on the Swiss
• Capto Toolholders for the Nakamura
• SMW Fixture Plate Packing & Shipping Process

Check out Spencer Webb's IG @spencer_webb_nh for Kinetic Precision PFG Stones

TOPICS:

• Being vulnerable & making decisions.
• Moving and reorganizing areas of both shops.
• CORE VALUES.
• Traction by Gino Wickman
• Saunders installed a coolant washdown system.
• Chip management & draining coolant.
• Renishaw probe batteries.
• Draining air compressors!