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

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

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

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

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

Topics:

• Grimsmo's CNC router is coming together
• Design review meetings
• Custom Fusion 360 tool management script!
• Willemin coolant or oil.  
• IMTS tooling claim
• PNMU insert for 4140

Topics:

• year in review
• packaging, costs
• Continuous improvement, lean manufacturing
• Routers, Willemin, etc.
• GoPro and audio technology
• Selling used CNC machines
• "Greg" buying manufacturing companies

Topics:

• Saunders got 2 new Haas machines delivered for their training classes
• Grimsmo building their CNC router
• printing with TPU flexible filament
• Taco Bell and Okuma crashes
• recording quality audio

Topics:

• Grimsmo's Willemin machine
• dealing with tough conversations
• Creating a metrology lab
• Mill-Turn machines, Tsugami, Willemin, Mazak
• Long term thinking
• Reverse osmosis water systems for coolants
• building an enclosure for Grimsmo's CNC router

Topics:

• Designing a chip conveyor
• replacing a Blum probe
• costs to service machinery
• stop using e-mail for internal communication
• duplicate SKUs, Shopify

Topics

• Saunders running his horizontal mill 18 hours a day
• Making custom Porsche parts
• kids in the shop
• Grimsmo crunched the probe tip on his Speedio with custom programming
• Chip management on the Speedio
• probing, manual programming

Topics

• Grimsmo releasing a new case for their Saga printer
• 3d printing for production
• cardboard packaging
• Autodesk Fusion meetup in December https://www.dsi-mfg.com/fusion-summit-2022
• multiple computers for workflow
• tool breakage control

Topics:

• Machining is the coolest thing ever
• "failing as a business leader if we don't purge our junk"
• "what do I want in the next 6 months" 
• how to hire and train new people quickly?
• Variance accounting
• SMW online training classes

Topics:

• "The only constant is change"
• Near fatal car accident for SMW employee and how it affects the company
• Saunders' wife filling in
• perpetual biggest failure?
• can do great things when able to focus, but...
• 4 new employees at SMW in the past 72 hrs
• Tornos update from Grimsmo
• Running machines unattended overnight

Topics

• Fired up after IMTS
• Authenticity in marketing
• Willemin booth at IMTS, all about lathes!
• Takeaways from the show
• shop update video
• Mini chip conveyor on the Speedio machine
• Check valve on coolant nozzles
• Opportunity cost of being an entrepreneur

Topics:

• Richlite
• purchasing high dollar items and utilizing cash to your benefit
• Joe Rogan and Zuck Podcast
• "I've won"
• philosophy of business
• Grimsmo is in love with his Speedio machine!
• Zero point workholding
• Miyano lathe

Topics:

• IMTS trade show
• Willemin machines
• classic growing problems. Chip management and recycling
• Machine prices at trade shows
• Grimsmo working on the speedio
• How to teach and train your team high level skills to scale your company
• bite off more than you can chew, then chew
• book reference/resources

Topics:

• Vacation + Work Trip: Autodesk Event in Birmingham, England
• Saunders, A Pilot/CNC Book Author, Tormach 770 MX, and an Escalator
• KERN Spews and Sputters Coolant Everywhere at Grimsmo Knives
• KAESER Air Compressor Coats Entire Shop in Fine Oil Mist
• New Tool Syndrome: Forklift Edition
• Abom79's SMW Shop Tour Video
• Speedio Training for GK Team
• BLUM Laser Tool Setter Installation Blues
• The Johns Gush Over CNC Machine Design Aesthetics
• Sticker Bombed: Erowa Pallet System from IMTS 2018
• Low Coolant Sensor
• CNC Lathe Talk

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TOPCIS:

• Grimsmo is having massive power problems that caused some awkward solutions.
• The boys talk about the value of business insurance.
• Willemin and Speedio updates!
• Saunders goes into a deep dive with their LEX erp software.
• 3D printing with magnets!

Topics:

• Incremental Business Growth Experiences
• Real Estate - Build or Buy Existing? Area 419 Tour
• Baby Brother Speedio Arrives Friday at GK!
• The Marvel of Rigging CNC Machines
• Shipping Insurance - Is it worth it?
• Legal Counsel - Sometimes a Letter Will Do!
• Chips on Willemin, Inserts, Adding Sharpie, and BANG ON Tolerances
• Precision Microcast 15 with Christian Wenzel Innolite 

TOPICS:

• John & John crashed the Willemin, Okuma & Kern, yikes...
• Grimsmo getting the Willemin to measure probe length.
• How to calibrate your spindle probe length.
• Saunders is finishing us a big fixture plate order.

Topics:

- SMW Relaunches CNC Training Courses in a New Center!
- Grimsmo Tweaks Grinding Process on KERN
- Should You Max Out Spindles That Run Less Than 20K RPM?
- Brother Speedio + Auto Door Coming to GK Soon!
- International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS) 
- Okuma Mist Collector Activation Issue
- Reorganizing Endmills
- GERP Update, Inventory, Operations, Tooling, Purchase Orders

TOPCIS:

• We finally get closure on Judd
• Mama Grimsmo is visitng for the first time since 2019!
• Grimsmo starts getting great results after a much needed training sesisons from the CMM.
• Saunders dives into endmills and surface finishes.
• Metrology!!!
• Grimsmo has been on a rabbit hole to try to make their saga mechanisims better.
• Saunders chats about probing issues.

Topics:

- Saunders opens up about his 11- year CNC companion
- Grimsmo takes on more duties while Angelo attends CMM Training
- Eumachs Sold! Avid CNC Router to cut foam for GK
- SMW Training begins July 19th
- Renishaw Probe Repair & Settings
- Willemin/WileMILL Probe Issues & 3D Printed Key Bracket
- HDPE Plastic Warp: Will annealing solve the lakes/hills?
- Rust Prevention: Looking for Input!