Guest: Stefan Gotteswinter

Self-Employment: How and When

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PFG.Live 2023-1210:  Self-Employment with Stefan Gotteswinter

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DAMTEE and DAMKEEZ: A Study In P1 - What started as a joke with my wife (alleging that I keep losing my tea between shop, truck, office and kitchen) became a design exercise and a successful one at that.  It also highlights the important of the Way of P1!

3DP Plastics in Hi-Temp Applications - A chat with John Saunders  @nyccnc  about the threat of part damage leads to considering different materials in FDM and SLA additive manufacturing.

Tired While Machining: CHECKLISTS! - I had a (minor) checklist failure, so let's learn from it.  Continuous improvement of the checklist process.  What's a "flow checklist"?

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PFG.Live 2024-0609: DAMTEE and DAMKEEZ: A Study In P1

Catching Up With Tom Lipton - He's been a busy guy, and we miss him.  Let's see what's happening in the wilds of California.

Who Wouldn't Want More Moore? - Holy Surface Plate, Batman!!  Tom hints at a new find, and it looks awesome!

A Five-Block Test On The Form 4 - Printing directly to the build plate has been a challenge.  We found ... a problem??  A surprising update.

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PFG.Live 2024-0602: Catching Up With Tom Lipton

Form 4 Arrives: One Software Glitch - It's up and running and the first prints are spectacular.  But, getting started was not trivial, and it took some doing.  It's always software, ain't it?!

Kish and Moly: A True Story - We revisit the classic story to celebrate the availability of Moly Sticks for diamond wheel dressing on the KP Store.  And, y'know, knowledge.

Grinding Wheel Uniformity - A gedanken experiment leads to a scary result in grinding.  An unsolvable problem?

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Save $500 at FormLabs by using my referral code at the Links page, below.

Links for products/designs mentioned are at pfg.gg/links

Follow me on Instagram at "spencer_webb_nh".

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PFG.Live 2024-0526:  Kish and Moly: A True Story

FormLabs 4: Second Visit Followup - In which I asked FormLabs to print some samples on the new Form 4, and I got to do further investigating.  And, boy, did I find out some things.  :-)

Printing Grimsmo Bearing Cages: P11 Wins! - John asked if we could try SLA-printing his bearing cages.  It only took until P11, but it seems to be skookum.

Self-Checking Gages - We discuss two  useful examples of self-checking gages, and several cases that are not!

Source for small quantities of pitch:  https://firsthanddiscovery.com/

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Save $500 at FormLabs by using my referral code at the Links page, below.

Links for products/designs mentioned are at pfg.gg/links

Follow me on Instagram at "spencer_webb_nh".

("PFG Stones®" is a registered trademark of Kinetic Precision)

Local Elevator by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

PFG.Live 2024-0519: Printing Grimsmo Bearing Cages: P11 Wins!

Upgrade to Form 4 Printer? - We've been making the family of NOZ products on the  @Formlabs  Form 3+ printer.  How do we react to the new Form 4?

Productize 6-inch Lapping Plates? - As we build out out hand-lapping system, requests for the 6-inch lapping plates are coming in.  Do we add it to the KP product list?

Over-automation in the Small Shop - Can you have too much automation?  Yes!  When do you know it's time?  


Links for products/designs mentioned are at pfg.gg/links

Follow me on Instagram at "spencer_webb_nh".

("PFG Stones®" is a registered trademark of Kinetic Precision)

Local Elevator by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

PFG.Live 2023-1210: Self-Employment with Stefan Gotteswinter

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