Within Tolerance

Jeff Hooper set out to build "the cheapest shop known to man" and seems to have succeeded. Dylan is joined by Jeff this week to discuss CNC training, running a job shop on a tight budget purposely, and most importantly enjoying life.

Check out the Chip Monkeys Youtube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/JeffHooper

and Jeff's IG @chip_monkeys

In a long awaited episode, Dylan is joined by Amish Solanki of SS CADCAM this week.  Amish talks about how he got into machining, buying his 5 axis DMG, approaching difficult jobs, and his struggles (that many in the community share) keeping tooling organized and accounted for.  

Check out Amish's IG @sscadcam

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This week's guest has a Bachelors in Electrical Engineering, a PhD in Physics, is a software architect by day, and still finds the time to have hobbies in CNC machining and injection molding.  Dylan is joined by John Socha-Leialoha of Random Products this week.  John shares his background in the software industry, discovering machining while working on model railroads, and his long string of passion projects that have added to his skillset over the years. 

Check out John's Youtube at: https://www.youtube.com/c/JohnSL

and his IG @johnsochaleialoha

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You may know this week's guest as the man who erected a building around his Duravertical mill. "You gotta do what you gotta do", Says Seth Madore of Liberty Machine, Inc. Dylan and Seth discuss running small businesses, focusing on quality control, and process reliability this week.   Seth shares lessons learned from building a shop at home including additions, power requirements, and phase converters.  

Check out Seth's IG @liberty_machine

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Most great products are born from the frustrations or challenges the creator faces.  Ignite Digi and its co-founder Chris Fox exemplify this, creating amazing camera equipment rooted in personal experience with camera drones and cinematography.  Chris joins Dylan this week to share Ignite's humble beginnings in a garage, their massive growth and acquisition of new machine tools, to their newest piece of equipment on its way.   

Check out Chris's IG @madebychrisf

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This week's guest Travis Mashburn  deals with a material many machinists dislike, composites.  Travis shares his experience cutting carbon fiber, from tool selection, dry vs. wet, and dust collection.  Travis is also retrofitting his own CNC routers at the same time and talks about his experience with Masso controllers.

Check out Travis's IG @unlocked_composites

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What do you do when you want to spend less time working in the business, and want to work on the business instead?  If you're Brian Kippen, you start a second shop across the country!   Dylan is joined by Brian this week to talk about forming a second KAD Models location, automation solutions, model making, cars, and more!

Check out Brian's IG @kadmodels

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Breaking Taps is a fantastic Youtube channel exploring material science, machining and more!  Zach of Breaking Taps joins Dylan this week to talk new machines, laboriously pouring epoxy granite, failed experiments, and building replicas of the JWST mirror system.  

Zach's IG:  @breakingtaps

Check out Breaking Taps on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/BreakingTaps

Breaking Taps JWST video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MxH1sfJLBQ

Okuma Octahedral Hexapod CNC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPS096dUVmw

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The roundtable is back!  Easton, Drew, and Jake all rejoin Dylan this week to catch up on new machines, going full-time, broken tools, and more!  Drew is getting the hang of his new (to him) Okuma lathe, Jake is preparing for a weekend of unattended running of his Tsugami, and Easton has been figuring out the world of swiss lathes.  All 4 discuss some of the metrology equipment they have, and the best $500 to spend on inspection equipment.  

Check out Drew's IG @drewfab

Check out Jake's IG @yatesprecision

Check out Easton's IG @moria_manufacturing

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