TOPICS:

• Lots of problems
• Building custom computers for CAD/CAM
• Willemin is sorta broken
• Bambu 3d printers!
• Calibrating printed parts
• Machining carbon fiber in the Speedio
• SMW puckchuck to market

TOPICS:

• Resin 3D printing with Grimsmo's daughter
• how we first learned about CNC machining
• Willemin lathe parts
• Saunders' Okamoto surface grinder runs!
• Coolant foaming
• Process improvements

TOPICS:

• Autodesk Fusion Summit recap
• Spoiled with new equipment, reinvesting in the company
• Willemin updates
• Swiss lathes
• Grimsmo's 1968 Volvo Amazon wagon runs!

TOPICS:

• Grimsmo's heat treat improvements
• SMW puck chuck anodizing
• Scrap metal
• Okamoto surface grinder and UMC350 delivered!
• Bambu 3d Printers

TOPICS

• Saunders lost power
• Grimsmo to sell his old Eumach machines
• How to re-work parts or call them scrap
• videos of shotgun barrel manufacturing
• heat treating puck chucks
• Setup sheet tool tracker
• Question to the audience

TOPICS:

• Grimsmo grinding blades on the Speedio!
• Growing your company
• metal 3d printing, costs?
• Downcut endmills
• AI image creation and how it relates to machining
• Heat treating SMW Puck Chuck parts
• SMW bought the Okamoto grinder!

TOPICS:

• Fusion 360 across a team
• DSI Fusion Summit Aug. 22, 2023 in California
• SMW video on coolest unknown trick.
• Cutting through the heat affected zone
• Speedio sub micron option works!
• SMW bought a HAAS UMC350!
• Financing options
• Reverse Osmosis water

TOPICS:

• Coolant management, foaming, etc
• Milwaukee Hermle tour! - https://www.hermleusa.net/en/info_center_en/5axis-summit-usa (Hermle tour) and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7Dygi8uGvA (Machining the James Webb Space Telescope Mirrors)
• Speedio Sub Micron option for Grimsmo
• Surface grinding deep dive

TOPICS

• The balance of leadership
• SMW Puck Chuck pallet system!
• Erowa update with Grimsmo
• Selling older machines and fully utilizing what you have

TOPICS:

• Chicago museum of science and technology
• Grimsmo looking at the Sub Micron option for his speedio
• Saunders overhaul to fixture plate Process
• SMW puck chuck!
• Lasers!
• RO water systems and algae

TOPICS

• Grimsmo was on vacation
• Terminator movie
• Breaking drills on Swiss lathe
• Puck chucks and training classes at SMW
• Speedio grinding
• SMW internal newsletter
• Coolant temperature

TOPICS:

• New equipment for Saunders!  Grinder, laser, 5-axis.
• tips for youtube channels
• Surface grinder notes from Adam Demuth
• Grimsmo grinding blades on the speedio
• PTO forms

TOPICS

• Family stuff
• Kern updates, running great!
• Saunders Puck Chuck, heat treat, tolerances
• Surface grinder
• Coolant management, foaming, water management

TOPICS

• Saunders went to Germany
•  Grimsmo Kern spindle fix update!
•  Chat GPT student
•  PFG Live youtube channel
•  Deutch science museum in Munich
• Buying new equipment and growing a company
•  shop floods
• coolant foaming

TOPICS:

• We want to see everyone Win
• Shop rags
• Kern spindle is coming in 2 weeks
• Willemin updates!
• The future of manufacturing?
• ChatGPT
• heat treating parts
  
  

TOPICS:

• Kern update, it is running!
• Planned downtime
• Lost packages in shipping
• Lapping and flatness
• Saunders air conditioner fix
• Fixturing Ideas
• Haas purple grease

Link: https://saundersmachineworks.com/products/smw-zero-point-system

TOPICS

• Willemin machines are awesome!
• Yates precision IG link
• Kern needs a new spindle
• Saunders had to fix a Helicoil

TOPICS:

• The cost of team trips and lunches
• Grimsmo visits the Elliott Matsuura Joint Open House
• Youtube!
• Grimsmo's CMM
• Prototyping SMW zero point fixtures

TOPICS:

• Removing yourself from the company
• Okuma tool load monitoring
• SMW purge of old stuff
• Gridfinity!
• Process bins
• Haas lubrication system

We're selling some equipment, workholding, etc!  Info at https://www.nyccnc.com/for-sale/

TOPICS:

• The life of a business
• Unwillingness to let go of control
• Giving a tour to Toyota employees
• Storing production tools
• Selling unused tools
• Process bins!
• Chip build up on the Okuma
  
  

Topics:

• SMW Okuma is 1yr old!
• cash budgeting and spending money
• A2 bushings heat treat
• Formlabs resin printer
• Willemin making the Saga clip
• Fire hazards with oil machines
• Process bins!

Topics:

• MTDCNC visited Grimsmo
• Net 30 customers
• SMW Zero point system
• Willemin 2d wrap toolpaths
• 140 hours a week of Kern run time
• Fastems 
• Tool life management
• Bambu 3d printer

TOPICS:

• Biscuits with the boss
• Willemin works!  From both teams!
• Pipe organs
• hiring
• Kern crash at Grimsmo
• Bambu 3d printer

TOPICS:

• Interviewing and hiring people
• Lasers!
• Bambu 3D printer
• Shipping processes and job turnover
• Willemin and oil

TOPICS:

• Willemin progresses from both teams!
• Shipping mistakes led to innovation
• Lifestyle creep
• Bambu 3D printer
• dedicated tools in machines