Topics:

 * Lathe runout
 * Tolerances, class B products
 * Grinding ceramics

#473 Grinding ceramics

Topics:

 * Interferometer updates
 * LLM's and software factories
 * Audio issues
 * Machining hightlight - bar fed mill

#472 Machining hightlight - bar fed mill

Topics:

 * White light interferometer purchasing
 * Cam templates and MCP
 * Stop talking and start doing
 * Reseach modes in LLM's
 * UMC400 is awesome
 * Flashlights....



#471 Cam templates and MCP

Topics:

 * Visiting SSCadcam in Squamish BC
 * Ai updates
 * DLC/PVD coating deepdive
 * Vision system and white light interferometers

#470 Visiting SS Cadcam in Squamish BC

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

#469 Crappy week at the shop

Topics:

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

#468 IMTS 2026 recap, Microscopes, people, and deep knowledge

Topics:

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

#467 Spindle gripping

Topics:

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

#466 Hearing about automation, implemting it, owning it

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

#465 Saunders might double their shop space??

Topics:

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

#464 Mentors

John Grimsmo of Grimsmo Knives and John Saunders of Saunders Machine Works discuss their success, struggles, goals and more as machinists, business owners and entrepreneurs.

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