Business of Machining

Topics:

• Crappy week at the shop
• Steel choices for Fjell button
• Home assistant machine monitoring
• Saunders shop issues
• Watch show and marketing
• Lex/Gerp tweaks
• White light interferometer desire

Topics:

• Interferometers, vision systems, etc.
• Blue Photon
• Bar fed mill
• Surface grinding and balancing
• Ai:
• Fronteir models vs local models
• MCP servers
• Entrepreneurship

Topics:

• Gerp buyers choice
• Lex rewrite
• Coolant tank cleaning - bleach flush?
• DLC coating issues
• Notebook LM for machine manuals
• Spindle gripping
• White light interferometery

Topics:

• Hearing about automation, implemting it, owning it
• Probing and subroutine macros
• DIY vision system
• Buyers choice ordering system
• Freddy vacuum

Topics:

1. IMTS coming up
2. Saunders might double their shop space??
3. Dumb but cool - label maker that prints on heat shrink tubing
   Actually cool - custom Kennemetal 3d printed 5 function drill 
4. Mori probe calibration issues
5. Bar fed mill

Topics:

• Hiring
• Mentors
• Isotunes hearing protection
• Costing and process planning

Topics:

• Satellites and Joe Scott youtube videos
• DIY linear gage
• Renishaw OTS wearing tools
• Shatter by Rob Lockwood
• Telecentric lens
• Vibe coding fun

Topics:

• Leave yourself a good starting point
• LLM's and software/hardware projects
• Linear gage projects
• Vision system, Keyence vs DIY
• Blum laser install fixed
• Air compressors down

Topics:

• Blum laser air upgrade and calibration
• Air compressor bearing issue
• Hardmilling endmills
• vacuum workholding
• Interferometers
• DIY metrology

Topics:

• Grimsmo installs a NAS
• Computer history museum
• Machine tool manufacturers
• Toilet bowl float coolant sensor
• Total process reliability with Blum laser
• Foam machining
• Home assistant