Business of Machining

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

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

TOPICS:   Local Ohio Machinist and makers group https://forms.gle/CSLjYSQshDqDCWRE6 Chemistry and filtration of liquids Future goals and Happiness 3 examples of the "rule of inverse Pi" Scissor lift sold Tall castle grips Anodizing crate Grimsmo grinding consistency on Speedio Saunders bent a probe tip Comparing shop cleanliness and organization

TOPICS: double tape and glue method Saunders open house April 13 Willemin crash CNC machines of the Future Looking for an aluminum machine LIGO gravitational device Nut runner torque device Drilling holes efficiently  

TOPICS: Latest hyperobsession - Chemistry Saunders yard sale! Local Machinist and makers group Grimsmo's Week in Review video Life hacks Nakamura window shattered, replacement is in. Torque wrenches Interested in a Central Ohio Machinist & Makers meet up? Fill out this form - https://forms.gle/CSLjYSQshDqDCWRE6 SMW Yard Sale LINK:  https://saundersmachineworks.com/collections/equipment-for-sale

TOPICS:   Loneliness in entrepreneurship banking relationships Kosterising heat treat New Willemin coming to Saunders Frustrated with IOT devices Selling tools at the open house   LINK IN DESCRIPTION WITH OPEN HOUSE DETAILS: https://saundersmachineworks.com/collections/equipment-for-sale/products/yard-sale  

TOPICS: hardmilling Prototyping new products Reaming holes Viewer mail

TOPICS: Grimsmo's new knife I love heat treating!   Should I get a Brother Speedio R650? Crashed the Speedio probe Quality of life improvements

TOPICS: Being too nice or too driven to your staff? Grimsmo's Willemin needs pneumatic work Solved the Horizontal chip sorting issue Cash management Exit interviews Repair parts process bins

TOPICS:   Grimsmo's new knife has a blade! Saunders yard sale!  Sat April 13, 2024 inverse of the Rule Of Pi Programming on the Horizontal Having a hard time selling 2 Haas machines carbon fiber double tape method

TOPICS: Gridfinity bins and inserted tooling 75 Hard Grimsmo's new Employee What's more accurate, axial or radial cuts? diamond burnishing on swiss LTL freight stress Labeling fixtures with paint Speedio tool touchoffs Saunders sorting chips  

TOPICS: override process sheets and process bins Kids and work Days Off In The Shop is a failure Gridfinity! Grimsmo's erowa and Speedio update Automation and pallet changing Hardmilling   

TOPICS Knifemaking Tuesdays are back! Multi color 3d printing Breaking drill bits Fusion Trim toolpath Days Off In The Shop is difficult, but wonderful Grimsmo's Speedio and Erowa are hooked up! Heat treating pullstuds

TOPICS:   Grimsmo's plans for the year Naming products Days off in the shop - Best business decision EVER New employee at Grimsmo Knives Releasing new products Tom Lipton mentor Saving time and money

TOPICS:   Days Off In The Shop ("Doits") Taking Purchasing off my plate Tracking and quantifying order issues Magnetic chip separator Variation between fixtures  

TOPICS: Coming in hot for 2024.  Reflecting and planning. Buckling down for a tough year. Grimsmo Buyer's Choice, new knife model Grimsmo's Eumach machines Selling CNC machines How do we buy cleaning supplies Dual color 3d printing for text  

TOPICS:     ·         Wen_mir_langwilig_isch How is lights out affecting cost benefit with the side eye on the time spent for process reliability?   ·         Burnandturnfabrication Name one thing that you didn’t think would change the business but made the company.   ·         Benji_fost  thoughts on haas pulling the UMC 350 from commercial sales?  Do you feel left high and dry?   ·         Felixwin2710 “Hey, I’m currently 19, and I’m in the process of building a small 5-axis cnc, any tips to get to where you are?   ·         A_knights_life Swiss Army knife (do it all, mill turn, etc) machines vs. scalpel machines(kern, swiss lathe)?   ·         Heidelworks What critical steps did you take to go from a small business (solo) to a multi employee business?   ·         DFMtoolworks: Is Die Hard a Christmas movie?   ·         Amishsolanki Is Rathi AI? Laurenswijnschenk Can you learn Amish how to not break taps?   Cito_charlie Top 3 book?  Business or non business               Grimsmo:             Emyth             RSF             Relentless             Apolo Murders       Saunders:     Small Time Operator     How to win friends and influence people   ·         Tips on how to organize tools in Fusion when changing them out often in a hobby garage?   ·         Stang_bladeworks What is the closest either of you have come to giving up and how did you overcome it?   ·         Martinskot What’s a shop/machining related product you wish existed but don’t have the time to develop yourself?  

TOPICS:   Business existentialism FOCUS Facemill blew up Horizontal deburring

Topics:   Defining the vision of your company Dedicating time to organize the shop Post processors scrap metal company designing a new knife

TOPICS: Distributing tasks among the team SmarterEveryDay Nasa video - watch it! End-of-year goals  DSI video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubQ1LLYvaaU 4th-grade class lecture DLC coatings on pens and knives Costing mistakes