TOPICS:

 * Crazy adventures at Blade Show 2025
 * Saunders crashed the Okuma
 * Moduleworks visited SMW

#418 Crazy adventures at Blade Show 2025

TOPICS:

 * Kern runs great now!  
 * Normal days vs rework days
 * High, Low, Buffalo
 * Blade Show 2025
 * 465 custom material
 * Helicoil stories



#417 Normal days vs rework days

TOPICS:

 * Coolant maintenance
 * Kern is fixed!  We realigned B axis ourselves
 * Johnny Five AI audio
 * Setup sheets
 * Automating bevel grinding

#416 Johnny Five AI audio

TOPICS:

 * Kern crashed
 * VM3 coolant actually went bad
 * Surface grinding with Robin Renzetti

#415 Kern crashed

TOPICS:

 * Toolpath team visited SMW
 * Mechanical pencil deep dive
 * Measuring grinding wheels
 * Wogaurd coolant sucker upper https://www.wogaard.com/coolant_saver.html
 * Surface grinding on the Tormach PSG
 * Topper machine auction video WATCH THIS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcPDZB11A9w
 * 3d printing big parts

#414 Surface grinding on the Tormach PSG

TOPICS:

 * Speedio looping the program over and over
 * Saunders programmed a part in Toolpath
 * Waterjet profile is wrong
 * Johnny Five is under control!
 * Smelly coolant

#413 Smelly coolant

TOPICS:

 * Toronto knife show
 * Grindmilling
 * Toolpath mistake
 * Arda and ERP systems
 * Renzetti 1-2-3 blocks
 * Johnny 5 turned on for the first time!

#412 Renzetti 1-2-3 blocks

TOPICS:

 * Superglue fixtures
 * Toolpath.com
 * Passion for machines and projects
 * Cycle time evaluations
 * Grindmilling

#411 Cycle time evaluations

TOPICS:

 * Prussian blue is amazing.
 * Bambu H2D 3d printer
 * Calibrating a 5 axis machine
 * Hand scraping deep dive
 * Tormach 1500 MX

#410 Prussian Blue is amazing

TOPICS:

 * Mentality around tariffs
 * Button lock geometry
 * Buy prussian blue
 * Hardmill all the things



#409 Hardmill all the things

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