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

#462 LLM's and software/hardware projects

Topics:

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

#461 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

#460 Toilet bowl float coolant sensor

Topics:

 * Air filtration upgrades
 * Horizontal is gone
 * Hardening the automation system
 * Low temp alloys tested!
 * Challenge - elegant solution, want a way for compressors to shut off

#459 Hardening the automation system

Topics:

 1. Being proud of yourself
 2. Low melt alloys, again
 3. Willemmin robot down
 4. Norseman lock insert accuracy
 5. Sole sourcing material

#458 Being proud of yourself

Topics:

 * Blade show Collaboration knife of the year
 * White light interferometer working!
 * Robot system hiccups cutting steel
 * Overhaul compressor system
 * Wax fixturing success
 * Waterfall cashflow



#457 Blade Show Collaboration Knife of the Year

Topics:

 * Wax fixturing and carbon fiber 
 * Robot outfeed tables
 * SMW machine updates
 * White light interferometer working!?
 * Justin interning at Saunders

#456 Wax fixturing and carbon fiber 

Topics:

 * Six types of working genius
 * New intern at Saunders
 * Carbon fiber inlays
 * Fishbone diagram
 * Memory rail photo gallery

#455 New intern at Saunders

Topics:

 * ERP updates
 * Prompt engineering
 * 19 hours of footage from California
 * Brother S500 + UR robot
 * 3d surfacing vs 2d contour
 * Painters tape on toolboxes



#454 Going nuclear on changes

Topics:

 * Mammoth summit recap
 * "Do you wnat to be right, or do you want to make money?" - Jim Belosic
   "40/70 rule" - Jim Belosic
 * Raise your prices?
 * New machines at SMW
 * Grimsmo's shop tours around California
 * "Ask me whatever questions you need before starting this task"
 * "Stop starting and start finishing"

#453 Grimsmo's shop tours around California

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