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: 1. IMTS coming up 2. Saunders might double their shop space?? 3. Dumb but cool - label maker that prints on heat shrink tubing Actually cool - custom Kennemetal 3d printed 5 function drill  4. Mori probe calibration issues 5. Bar fed mill