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

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?

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

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

Topics:

• Machining cast iron is dumb
• Grimsmo making hand-lapping plates
• Saunders giving a keynote speech on Okuma 2023 Technology Showcase
  Link: https://www.okuma.com/events/okuma-2023-technology-showcase 
• CNC training classes
• Bambu 3d printer
• Willemin
• Lasers!
• Packaging!
• Inventory of products

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
  
  

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!

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

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

Topics:

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