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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 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