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Business of Machining

John Grimsmo of Grimsmo Knives and John Saunders of NYC CNC discuss their success, struggles, goals and more as machinists, business owners and entrepreneurs.
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May 26, 2023

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

May 19, 2023

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

 
May 12, 2023

TOPICS

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

 

May 5, 2023

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
Apr 28, 2023

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/

Apr 21, 2023

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

Apr 14, 2023

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!

 

Apr 7, 2023

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

 

Mar 31, 2023

TOPICS:

  • Biscuits with the boss
  • Willemin works!  From both teams!
  • Pipe organs
  • hiring
  • Kern crash at Grimsmo
  • Bambu 3d printer
Mar 24, 2023

TOPICS:

 

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

 

Mar 17, 2023

TOPICS:

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

 

Mar 10, 2023

Topics:

 

  • Origin of John and John meeting in 2015
  • Saunders gave a speech: "Ways to automate a shop without spending 6 figures"
  • Youtube content!
  • Willemin!
  • swiss machines and dual channel machines
  • DIY Spectrometer and lasers
  • visit shops and bring questions
  • can we implement automated workholding?



Mar 3, 2023

Topics:

  • Willemin updates!
  • Cutting wood in Grimsmo's router to clean endmills
  • Lasers!!!  
  • Saunders had a huge win on the Horizontal
  • Cast Iron lapping plates
  • Visit to Borne and Co
Feb 24, 2023

Topics:

  • Lapping plates
  • wood blocks in the router
  • Willemin!
  • Okuma is running deep into the night
  • expensive power bills
  • Machining Cast iron
  • Material inventory
  • Sharing responsibilities
  • breaking taps
  • sacrificial wood block in the router
  • Inspecting parts and improving processes

 

Feb 17, 2023

Topics:

Feb 10, 2023

Topics:

 

  • "the world is not perfect".  Making parts to tolerance.
  • cutting foam
  • Insurance claims
  • Lasers!
  • making small parts with vacuum
  • Lapping parts to ultimate flatness
  • Willemin install at SMW

Feb 3, 2023

Topics:

  • Team meetings
  • hiring shipping staff and leading a Team
  • feedback from listeners
  • Detent ball dropper in Grimsmo's Kern works!
  • Tool load monitoring on the Okuma
  • laser engraving!
  • Saunders has the LS3655 100w laser
  • Saunders' Willemin machine arrives tomorrow!
Jan 20, 2023

Topics:

  • Distractions and losing time
  • tool life hacks on Haas machines
  • Grimsmo's router works!  
  • Grimsmo's Willemin works too!  
  • Henry Holsters visited SMW
  • Inventory and sub assemblies
  • Detent ball dropper designs
  • CAM help for Saunders
Jan 13, 2023

Topics:

  • oil failure on Okuma horizontal
  • Grimsmo's Kern got a new tool changer dampener
  • vacuum pump for CNC Router
  • all about returning products
  • process bins!
  • drilling an angled hole
  • logging information, standardizing
Jan 6, 2023

Topics:

  • Grimsmo's CNC Router
  • Saunders got a Saga pen for Christmas
  • Machining copper tips and tricks
  • process bins
Dec 30, 2022

Topics:

  • Saunders is getting a Willemin!  
  • Purchase process, options chosen, etc.
  • Machine shop insurance
  • Saunders python script for tool setup is working!
  • ChatGPT and Dall-E
Dec 23, 2022

Topics:

  • Surface grinding blades, milling fixture plates, flatness flatness flatness!
  • ISO9001 certification
  • Implementing procedures through the shop
  • Dedicate tools for dedicated parts
  • Inventory count
  • Foam
Dec 16, 2022

Topics:

 

  • New full-time employee at SMW
  • Hiring and firing
  • Grimsmo's lathe machinist taking a month vacation
  • really tough week at SMW
  • complicatons of robots
  • sharing your vision
  • Fusion 360 video
  • Growing a team, getting them to solve problems
Dec 9, 2022

Topics:

  • Saunders went to North Carolina, shop ran well without him!
  • Autodesk event
  • Grimsmo working on improving his Kern, toured a flavor factory
  • Saunders toured an egg factory
  • Tracking process flow through the shop
  • Managing your tasks
  • Crashing machines
Dec 2, 2022

Topics:

  • I love lathes
  • Planning workflow on automated CNC machines
  • Saunders updating fixtures
  • Grimsmo's router and custom foam
  • custom oil bottles for nano oil
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