Business of Machining John Grimsmo & John Saunders

TOPICS:

* Grimsmo pulling late nights to get his new knife done for Blade Show
* Purchases that are important or not.
* How to lead others and push them
* Great, good, and important companies
* Does anybody actually use PVA support?

TOPICS:

* Do I need a "reset"?
* Al Whatmough and Carl Bass leadership skills
* Grimsmo prepping for blade show
* Hardness testing
* UMC350 5 axis machine

TOPICS:

* Grimsmo exploded a 440c button
* Saunders pushed the PuckChuck to failure
* Building the shop to be easy
* Adding a bubbler to a coolant tweaking
* Puck chuck fixtures on the VF2
* Building the dream machine from scratch

TOPICS:

 

* Integral knife button tweaking
* Thermal growth on steel
* Optical comparator with Baty screen
* 3d printing brim and build plates
* Zero gravity tool suspension device
* - Sloky torque devices
* Johnny 5 build
* Offset on horizontal got reset!

 

TOPICS:

* Creativity vs productivity
* Saunders' Willemin is gone
* Project management
* Johnny 5 robot update
* BlackFox Machining box cutter clip
* Awkward DOITS phase

 

TOPICS:

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