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

Topics:

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

#463 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

#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

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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