Topics: * Latest obsessions * - recycling used coolant * - foam * 2026 roadmap * - what do people want? * - execution. * - collaborative planning * - Complete each task in a way you're proud of * Checklist for buying machines * SMW Brother is installed! * Grimsmo Speedio quest for ultra precision * Embarassing Babmu moment
Topics: * Within Tolerance podcast shoutout * Pissed: GPS sensors when moving machines * First part on SMW's Brother * Speedio optimization at Grimsmo * SMW Dec 18th hosting Toolpath webinar * Grimsmo vision system deep dive * Ai tip - feeding it the right imformation * Shopify integration
Topics: * White light interferometer and Grimsmo Vision * Solving other people's problems, not just your own * Saunders travelled to Lights Out Automation, Metalquest, Autodesk, Lambcrafted, and Johnny Five * New Speedio and UMC * Historical financials
Topics: * Blocking wax * Measuring porosity in metal * Nesting software * White light interferometer * Audio issues fixed?
Topics: * Audio issues on podcast? * Waterjet mod vises * Kern float sensors * The power of vision systems and AI
Topics: * Should we die with zero? * Measuring anodizing hardness * Engineering change notifications * Home assistant * Foam update * Video on probing * Lights Out Automation - integrator
Topics: * Foam update * Rachel Whiteread art exhibit * 15 minute trackers * Mailcall from Abom79 * Buying a paving company * Water filtration
Topics: * Stress relieving titanium * Robot flip fixtures * Foam update * Raspberry Pi Home Assistant and webcams * Probing too much * Telescopes and lenses
Topics: * Tariffs * Visit to Tuck's Garage * Johnny Five is almost alive * Speedio S700 purchased! * Fieldly.ai (necklace pendant) * DIY foam inserts
Topics: * Tough days * CMTS tradeshow * Selling machines and building the shop * Gorilla Stand micro adjustment * Kuka arm rubber scraper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZS4Bpr2BgnE * Influencer marketing
TOPICS: * Watchmaking * CA Glue * White light interferomety * DIFFRACTION LIMITED VIDEO MUST WATCH: * https://youtu.be/MgQbPdiuUTw?si=cvqbxAIJuswziIl9 * Cheat sheet for different AI's. * Notebook LM * Tool wear issues on small parts
TOPICS: * New computer specs * UR10e robot * Building a white light interferometer * Watchmaking * Selling the Okuma horizontal * Finishing Johnny Five
TOPICS: * Tradeshows, Kern Precision days * Adam from Laney Machine Tech * Cyrus from Cylos Garage * White Light Interferometry * SMW expanding pins
TOPICS: * Drilling and tool life * Through spindle coolant * Speedio S500 details * Argon results in heat treat * Gorilla stand
TOPICS: * Argon purging heat treat bags * Revisiting tool life in steel * Tapping, form tapping, threadmilling * Machining graphite
TOPICS: * I hate rework * Aligning the Erowa chuck on the Kern * Expanding clamps * One piece flow vs batchwork
TOPICS: * Saunders smashed his finger * Met NileRED * What's the ideal retirement home shop? * Corporate Saga pens * Inventory * Vapor blasting
* I vs We in business * Dave Precise: "The best decision is the one that will let you make the next decision faster" * AI vs search engines * 5 axis work * Vapor honing
TOPICS: * Atlanta retrieval mission * Kern coolant float fixed-ish * Johnny Five motor gears * M2 buttons * Dave Precise episode on Within Tolerance
TOPICS: * Air compressor and coolant problems * Johnny Five electrical schematic * M2 steel testing * Hard threading * Prototyping 5 axis parts
Connor Purington
are you still accepting submissions for 30 second clips about how this podcast may have help you? if so where can I submit? thanks guys! happy holidays!
Karthik Senapathy
Why don't you dunk your finished parts in a can/drum of oil to prevent rusting? Maybe you can tie it and tag the thing you tie it with