Business of Machining
John Grimsmo of Grimsmo Knives and John Saunders of Saunders Machine Works discuss their success, struggles, goals and more as machinists, business owners and entrepreneurs.
Episodes
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
TOPICS:
- UPS knives to Blade Show still stuck in Atlanta
- 465 Custom stainless steel
- Firechrome material
- Reinvest or take out money?
- Was there a point where you wanted to throw in the towel?
TOPICS:
- Crazy adventures at Blade Show 2025
- Saunders crashed the Okuma
- Moduleworks visited SMW
TOPICS:
- Kern runs great now!
- Normal days vs rework days
- High, Low, Buffalo
- Blade Show 2025
- 465 custom material
- Helicoil stories
TOPICS:
- Coolant maintenance
- Kern is fixed! We realigned B axis ourselves
- Johnny Five AI audio
- Setup sheets
- Automating bevel grinding
TOPICS:
- Kern crashed
- VM3 coolant actually went bad
- Surface grinding with Robin Renzetti
TOPICS:
- Toolpath team visited SMW
- Mechanical pencil deep dive
- Measuring grinding wheels
- Wogaurd coolant sucker upper https://www.wogaard.com/coolant_saver.html
- Surface grinding on the Tormach PSG
- Topper machine auction video WATCH THIS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcPDZB11A9w
- 3d printing big parts
TOPICS:
- Speedio looping the program over and over
- Saunders programmed a part in Toolpath
- Waterjet profile is wrong
- Johnny Five is under control!
- Smelly coolant
TOPICS:
- Toronto knife show
- Grindmilling
- Toolpath mistake
- Arda and ERP systems
- Renzetti 1-2-3 blocks
- Johnny 5 turned on for the first time!
TOPICS:
- Superglue fixtures
- Toolpath.com
- Passion for machines and projects
- Cycle time evaluations
- Grindmilling
TOPICS:
- Prussian blue is amazing.
- Bambu H2D 3d printer
- Calibrating a 5 axis machine
- Hand scraping deep dive
- Tormach 1500 MX
TOPICS:
- Mentality around tariffs
- Button lock geometry
- Buy prussian blue
- Hardmill all the things
TOPICS:
- Robots
- Demagnetizing 4140 bars
- Rolex
- Johnny 5 track drives
- Probing for accuracy
TOPICS:
- Fusion PSA on heights tab
- Measuring ultra precision
- Heat treating improvements
- Tormach 1500mx updates
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