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:
- 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
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
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