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Business of Machining - Episode 1
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Welcome to the John Grimsmo & John Saunders Business of Machining Podcast! We (John and John) have talked every Friday morning for the past year and we realized how helpful it has been to share our successes, struggles and stories with each other! So helpful that we have decided to record our conversations and share as this podcast!
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Introduction to Hosts and Podcast
00:00:00
Speaker
Hi folks, welcome to what we think is going to be called the business of machining podcast. My name is John and my name is John as well. John Grimsmo.
00:00:09
Speaker
than John Saunders. We thought we would introduce ourselves, talk about our story, why we do what we do, why we know each other and why we are here today talking really to each other. That was our idea behind this podcast was it's not about you, the listener, it's about me and John. No, we're kidding. But this is John and I have had these Friday morning sessions where we talk about business and machining and our goals. And we realized maybe this would be a really good sort of intimate raw podcast. I'm getting ahead of myself though.
00:00:39
Speaker
Yeah. Thoughts, John? Yeah. We've been having these sort of business slash therapy chats with each other every Friday morning for maybe, what do you think, six, eight months? Yeah. And they've been really, really good. And we go over some really good stuff that we figure some people might like to listen to. And actually, our friend Rob Lockwood is the one who suggested the podcast a week or two ago. So yeah, we're calling you up, Rob.
00:01:09
Speaker
But it's awesome because I trust John enough. He knows my world. I don't have to spend a lot of time like I would with my wife or a friend explaining some things. But John's also distant enough where it's like maybe sometimes it's okay to air my dirty laundry or to share some numbers I wouldn't want to share with somebody that's next door to me. And we talk about this on our chip break series, but we should explain what we do and who we are for the folks that don't know us.
00:01:36
Speaker
You want to go first? Yeah, I'll go first.
John Grimsmo's CNC Passion and Online Presence
00:01:38
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So I'm John, and my brother and I make very high-end quality custom pocket knives. We've got a YouTube channel under my name, John Grimsmo, Instagram page. And I've been passionate about machining, CNC machining, for the past eight or nine years or so.
00:01:59
Speaker
It just translates into everything that I do and it's my thing. It's my passion, my hobby. It's pretty much the only hobby that I have and it's become a business and I think about it constantly. I was up till 1.30 last night working on Fusion and just having fun with it.
00:02:17
Speaker
It's funny that gets me so excited because I'll introduce myself here in a second but I feel like you know I run a lot of YouTube videos and there's some amount of prep work and focus in a YouTube video in this podcast is going to be a chance I hope for for John and I to both kind of share the other side of our story and maybe in a future we want to keep these I think short for folks that want to listen to them on a commute or something but
00:02:39
Speaker
Once you do a future podcast where one of us or each of us on a separate podcast goes into more of our history and backstory I haven't told a lot of it on my youtube channel because I felt like it was irrelevant and so forth But uh, are you telling? Yes, you tell a piecemeal here and there like little bits, right? Right not the right story
00:02:55
Speaker
Right. But it's amazing how parallel our stories have been, which is, which is I think one reason why it was so easy. It was so easy to build this friendship and this relation, this sort of whatever, you know, business. Like you said, sometimes you need therapy. Sometimes you need somebody to say, am I crazy? Why am I so frustrated or mad or am I focusing on the right thing today? Yeah.
00:03:18
Speaker
And as you said, the similarities are almost creepy. We're the same age. We're both named John. We look kind of the same, build-wise and everything. We've got wife, two kids, same kind of business. It's kind of weird. Right. No, we both had a lot of strong, interesting computers growing up.
John Saunders' Journey into Machining and Content Creation
00:03:38
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Anyways, my name is John Saunders. I fell in love with machining as just watching videos on the internet when videos on the internet didn't really exist and tried to bring a product to market about 10 years ago. Really struggled with the engineer and then the machine shops that were hired because I couldn't
00:03:56
Speaker
be part of the conversation and on a whim bought a benchtop milling machine in 2006 right when YouTube was starting and on a whim thought if I'm interested in this there must be 10 more people out there that want to see what these CNCs are and so started putting videos out documenting my process of learning how to buy a machine how to run it how to get CAD CAM and all that thinking I would have it for like a year sell it
00:04:18
Speaker
because all I wanted to do was be able to talk to people about how to get parts made and how to do stuff and absolutely fell in love with it and fast forward. We continue to run that NYC CNC YouTube channel. I think it's the leading channel on CNC. We've got about 140,000 subscribers as of January of 2017. Run a very small job shop. We do hands-on CNC training and my focus for 2017 as I've discussed ad nauseam with John is to
00:04:47
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ramp up the line of products that we make as well. Fantastic. Yeah. So our format for this podcast, and I would ask if you guys are okay with that, but you can't respond to
Maintaining a Raw Podcast Format
00:05:01
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us. So I suppose it's
00:05:03
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is to actually just have our normal conversations between me and John. And we hope to keep them as intimate as they've been because that's the value of them. The value is not keeping everything always perfect and shiny. I mean, entrepreneurship is, I love it. I wouldn't trade it for the world.
00:05:19
Speaker
but it's lonely, it's hard, it's very easy to judge yourself. Nobody really is there to tell you, you got an A on this paper, or you got an A on this performance review, or we're giving you a bonus, like a day job. You live and die by what you do. Should we stop talking to the audience, John, and just start talking to each other? Sure. Sweet. Yeah, and then in future episodes, we can do more backstory.
00:05:48
Speaker
Right. Okay. Yes. Perfect. We're on that note, we are, you know, john and I are both incredibly busy in a in a great way, in a way we sort of choose to be but we're keeping this podcast raw because I would have to probably decline if we had to take the time to really, really edit it in and go forth through it like the YouTube. Right. So maybe that changes going forward. Maybe it doesn't work as a podcast, but it's going to be raw.
00:06:14
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, this is Saturday morning, 7am, as our families are waking up and we're squeezing a little bit of time to do this and chat with each other. Yeah, so my day, I was frustrated because I was supposed to be working on our fixture plates. Right, we talked yesterday morning and you said. Right, on the Haas, four Tormachs, but a, so I'm taking that scraping class and
00:06:39
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uh to scrape that parallel in it's a cast part and long story short the cast piece um has a twist in it and when I clamp it down to the mill you clamp the twist out of it so when you machine it flat it's flat but as soon as you let off the clamps the twist comes back and it was really frustrating because I filmed the footage and I
00:07:02
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I've never done this but I was gonna like throw the footage away, but I'm gonna see I'm going over to a friend shop this morning Who is a really good machinist? He's got a grinder as well that can cover the travel and I'm gonna see if I can get that thing because it's stupid to go to a Five-day grinding or scraping class and and bring a part that you think is made worse by your own actions
00:07:23
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Maybe anyway, um, so that's only that's great, but it's frustrating because that's nine o'clock and I was hoping to spend today Getting those fixture plate, you know more testing done and it's a couple prototypes made to send off to anodize, right? So how much have you dated that eat up yesterday? Well, that's today I'm going at nine o'clock today that shop
00:07:48
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But I mean yesterday messing with oh I gave up Thursday night on that. I don't came I left the shop at like 10 o'clock Yesterday I had my This is good. But yeah, I have a three-hour meeting with my accountant for year-end stuff I had a visitor YouTube fan come by and another guest come by You know the typical I so that's what I was telling you if I can find I'm trying to find this assistant and if I find an assistant I really think I'm gonna give him or her a
00:08:15
Speaker
my phone for the day and have them answer, have them respond. And then maybe it's like that Tim Ferriss kind of batching your emails into checking them every four hours and maybe sit down with them every three or four hours and respond. They could grab me if something's urgent, but otherwise I can give them the responses and it feels very, I don't feel like I'm important enough to have that, but it would be such a big force multiplier for my productivity.
00:08:42
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I can imagine it, and then you get to focus on actual work, not everything that comes up as it comes up. Of course, there's all different theories and methodologies. I saw a video with Paul Akers, the lean guy, and he's like, you have to do everything lean. You have to answer your emails as they come in, because otherwise batch work sucks. There's methods and theories for every different person, but you just got to find what works best for you.
00:09:11
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For us, we like to invest, you know, focus in something. If we get four hours uninterrupted on something, it's magical. Oh my God, that's yeah, that'd be amazing.
Efficient Communication Techniques
00:09:22
Speaker
Yeah. Do you know, so I respond to so many emails now with videos, because it's so many of them are fusion related. Do you know though, on my iPhone or Android, is there a way I can respond to an email with a audio clip? I would love to do that. I don't know.
00:09:40
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I thought Paul Eakers said he does that, but I think he used transcription. He does it through iPhone. He says, I saw that video and he's like, it's super easy through iPhone, but it's not easy through Android or something. I'm on the Android. Got it. I got to look into that. It's funny because it's a win-win because people like it. Yeah, totally.
00:10:00
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Yeah. Sometimes on Instagram, I'll reply to people with a video because it's personal, because it's cool, and because nobody really gets that. I wish we could do that with email. I'm sure there's a way, but that would be very cool. And like Paul Aker said, it's faster and easier to just talk back to somebody. Right.
00:10:23
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What are you doing? Are you working today? I know you don't always work. Yeah. I try to take weekends off to spend some quality family time, but I'm definitely on the computer today at home. We've got a lot of admin stuff to do.
00:10:38
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a lot of emails to catch up on, kind of the dirty emails from the week that pile up that I never get to as they come, right? So I've got some catching up there. How is
Streamlining Operations with ShipStation
00:10:49
Speaker
ShipStation? You switched all your stuff over to ShipStation, right? Yes. It's utterly fantastic. It took a, I don't know, a 10 minute process down to a one minute process.
00:10:59
Speaker
It's awesome. And you just bought, you just bought the label printer or what a label printer and it works. Yeah. A little Dymo 450 or something like that. Right. Right. Yeah. Works awesome. Awesome. Yeah. So we have training starting today actually in all next week. Really?
00:11:14
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Yeah, but it's good. My goal is to get, I mean, it's like, it's great. We finished the last job shop job. I've been doing a much better job of telling people, this is very weird to share this all publicly, but I've been, you know, we're basically turning off job shop work for the next two, three months. I had a really hard time doing that, as you know, but that's the way to make it easier is to say it's not forever. It's just for the next two months.
00:11:41
Speaker
I'm not, that doesn't apply to existing customers, especially some of our obviously really good ones. So that's all off my plate. I got some year and something yesterday, so like it really should be, really should be clear smooth. Kind of a clean new year, yeah. Right, right. Excellent. Yeah. Yesterday, I tried out a new brand of end mill,
00:12:10
Speaker
Really? For the way that we machine the bevels on the rask, we stand the blade edge up, and we take a three-eighths end mill, and we come in on the side, and we mill the side. This is what you have the custom, the molded fixture for, right? Yes. Also, it supports the already machined other side of the blade. Right. So up until now, we've been using a electro carbide six-flute end mill to do this. Yep.
00:12:38
Speaker
Never been blown away by the finish. I love Lakeshore carbide. I use them for 90% of this stuff. But that 10% of this stuff has to get kind of specialized. A lot of Harvey Tool and weirder stuff. I tried an Enco Enmel and it just chatted like crazy, even the fancier flute ones. So this is funny because somebody said that to me like three or four months ago. And I thought Enco, like the MSC offshoot. And then I now have learned. And this is kind of one of those funny things that goes back to being a sort of outsider.
00:13:08
Speaker
You're saying info IMCO, which is like super high end and mills, right? Right. Okay. And you know, I can get in coin most of my local distributor, their shop is like five minutes away from my shop. So that's nice. But when they chatter and don't work, then you're not satisfied with them.
00:13:27
Speaker
So, you know, on Instagram, we've been hearing a lot about Destiny's tool. Right. And they have this Raptor end mill. It's called a three slash six, a rougher and a finisher. Oh yeah. Alternating. Yeah. So you look at the pitches at the end of the end mill, instead of six evenly spliced flutes, there's like two and then a big gap and then two and then a big gap and then two. And the theory is the first insert roughs and then the second one wipes it and finishes.
00:13:54
Speaker
That's so cool. Yeah, it is really cool. And when you look at it, you're like, this is different. I've never seen this before. And they're not that expensive. For like a three eights, I think it was 25 bucks, which is totally standard. Wow, that's really good. Yeah.
00:14:08
Speaker
But I've never ordered from them. I had to order from gem tool supply. It's like a distributor. Distributors are the best. Yeah. I thought it would be a big deal. But it was just like ordering from Lakeshore. You just go to the website. Oh, that's good. I did it for my phone. OK. And it was awesome. Wow. That sounds really good. They came to Canada in about a week or two. And I tried them out. And the results are breathtaking. Seriously? Yeah. And I can attribute it to, like,
00:14:37
Speaker
Not just the sharpness of the edge, but the toothiness, the grind quality of the anvil itself. Right. The Lakeshore Carbide one is leaving a very streaky finish. Okay. And the Destiny one, like I was hoping for, leaves just a beautiful, beautiful finish. It was crazy. Like the first test that I did, I showed it to Eric and we were both like,
00:15:02
Speaker
That's huge because that's going to reduce post machining finishing, right? Right.
00:15:08
Speaker
Right, that's awesome. So there's six flutes, three finish, three rough. Are they the same? Are the flute, it's not the diameter, but yeah, but like, is the radius from the center of the tool out of the edge of the flute, does it differ? I can't tell, I don't know. Okay, because that would, I think would be like the wiper. I guess I need to see one of these or buy one.
Investment in Equipment and Productivity Costs
00:15:32
Speaker
Yeah, so for any steel, pretty finished machining you have to do, I would suggest getting some for sure.
00:15:39
Speaker
Yeah, that's awesome. Do they do aluminum or is it a steel only thing? Oh, yeah, they have some, what do they call them? I forget what it's called. This one's called the Raptor. The aluminum ones are also called something else. I know that a bunch of the Instagram guys love them for aluminum as well. And the distributor gem is US? Yeah, they're in California. OK, do you mind emailing me the, I guess I'll just look, G-E-M? J-E-M.
00:16:07
Speaker
Yeah, Google that you'll find their website. Yeah, I think I think they just put up this new online store. It's great. Got it. Okay, that's my list. So here's a funny thing to like, this is this is we were talking about this yesterday, but this is going back to like, I've not get I'm not sometimes hitting my like weekly sort of mini goals, because I end up accepting distractions. And like,
00:16:32
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talking about driving to Kentucky to pick up that grinder and then the Haas training guy coming and I was talking to Yvonne last night about it and it was literally like I Think I'm I think I'm a pretty disciplined person. It was literally like just say no. Yeah
00:16:46
Speaker
No, but like, I don't know, how do I do like, if I do that, you know, as long as the, obviously the business has to, you know, you can't say no, if it's the police at the door, you know what I mean? Like, there's some exception, but it's really, I guess I've never taken it that far. But if I want to stay focused, maybe I need to. And we noticed the same things like,
00:17:07
Speaker
You know, you get these crazy ideas. You're like, well, if I did this, it would save me time to do that. And it sounds easy, and it'll cost $20, so I'll buy it. And then you end up spending the whole day trying to implement it. We find out a lot. Right. Right.
00:17:21
Speaker
like we have a toaster oven to temper the blades after heat treat. And the temperature control on a toaster oven is not very good. You know, Eric would see the temps fluctuate plus or minus. So we bought a PID controller from Amazon. It was like 50 bucks. And we're like, okay, yeah, we can wire it in. It's just a couple of wires. I'm good with wiring. But it took the majority of the day to like wire it and tune it and make it work properly. And at the end of the day, you're like,
00:17:49
Speaker
was that worth the invested time like yeah right well even pick even picking up that grinder i don't regret it i don't regret buying it i don't regret going to myself but i didn't want to send jared alone he needed help and i wanted to see it under power in case there was some reason to walk away from the deal um
00:18:08
Speaker
And but then I was thinking about it and between the actual mileage cost the fact that it was 12 at was 5 a.m. To 5 p.m. Was literally leaving the shop to returning with the machine and then and Then lost productivity. I mean, that's like a really a two to three thousand dollar day, right? Cuz two of you guys the shops not doing anything that day basically. Yep
00:18:33
Speaker
that's not totally true and that's i had him drive and i used my um my wife's work phone which has unlimited data to do a do a hot spot and i caught up on youtube comments on the drive there and back um
Balancing Productivity and Distractions
00:18:46
Speaker
so not like totally lost but still you know it's funny because i the bootstrapper in me would think if somebody was going to charge me 2200 to rig it to my shop um then i would have i would have uh
00:18:59
Speaker
Said no, that's so much money. I could just go down pick it up, but it costs a lot of money. I totally understand. Yeah And I'm sitting here on Saturday and I haven't gotten something done that I really want to get done And and there was a day that I love I mean, it's I'm probably being too hard on myself or maybe I'm not Yeah, it's it's that mentality of Paying somebody cash to rig it for you $2,200 is a lot of money
00:19:26
Speaker
But when you think, because it's not like if you had worked that day, somebody's gonna hand you $2,200 in cash. It's all work flow, like end of the month, it works out, right? Your jobs get finished and you get paid. That's something I really wanna talk about on a chip break, because I don't believe in annual budgets, because years are so long, and daily budgets, it's too granular, but I really like weekly and monthly budgets. What's like what you were talking about?
00:19:54
Speaker
It's like what you were talking about with batching up a pile to the end of the week. Yeah. I mean, month to month, everything changes very fluidly. One month could require a lot of expenses in the next one.
00:20:13
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Not as much. Right, right. Awesome. Well, so my goal is to, I'm waiting for that piece to come back from anodized to test fit all remember we talked about on WhatsApp, all the diameters on threads and boards with anodized, right, right. They said definitely go hard coat over type two. So there they are type three.
00:20:31
Speaker
I'll see what those are like, but it's nice because I can still machine the plate today and I can put it back in the hots cause the Renishaw will pick up those, the locations just fine. Right. Right. Um, and then we should be good. Cool. Yeah. Yeah. And you're sufficiently oversizing like the board diameters.
00:20:52
Speaker
Well, that's what I don't know. I'm going to machine them to like their half inch. I'm going to probably machine them to like five tenths over, which will give me a good fit without anodize. And then he was saying the hard coat. I have to pull up the P.O., but I think I suspect the hard coat to two thousandths. But anodizing specs, half the thickness is in the material and half is addition. Oh, really? Yeah, that's that. That's their like terminology. So it should add a foul.
00:21:18
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per wall. Yeah, so that would be, it's early in the morning, that would be adding 2,000 though. Exactly, right? So I should be reaming them or I should be machining them to 5025 for a good slip fit on a dowel pin.
00:21:41
Speaker
And then yeah, like I was saying I don't I got to take that fifth axis off because I want to play it works But I think I just the cam is not gonna be just it's like it's not just like adaptives or even surfacing cam It's so much more complicated and I can't it's much I want to play with that I should just write like right like you don't need it to want tomorrow for the next job Yeah, it's but I want to prove it to myself that I can do it. You know, I do the same thing. I
00:22:09
Speaker
But the truth is, if I look at the end of January and I look back, I would be happy if I made a bunch of these fixture plates and they were pre-mowed. I need to go grimsmow on these products and have them be just phenomenally proud of them. Looking back on January, I'm not going to be happy. It's not going to upset me if I don't get the Fit Access running because I will. I will. There's no reason to push that. That's a really good way to phrase it.
00:22:36
Speaker
What do you mean? In 30 days or at the end of the month, like from today, it's January 7th. Put yourself on January 31st and look back and say, what will make me proud of what I did this month? Yeah, exactly. Wow, that's a good way to phrase it. It relieves some of the stress, too, because I have a hard time saying no. I have a hard time being like, I want to do it all, and I can't. Yeah, but you saying, I'm OK if I don't touch the fifth axis or if I didn't touch it this month. But I would not be OK.
00:23:06
Speaker
if I played with the five axes too much and I didn't get my jobs done. I like that. We got to do this on another podcast, but that write your own obituary. Right. But it's almost like the month's obituary. Yes. Well, there you go.
00:23:27
Speaker
And there's another funny thing which is in high school. We were taught this is weird. We were always taught to do We didn't have the same class every day so like on a you didn't have every class every day
00:23:43
Speaker
straightforward right so so if it was monday night we were taught monday night do your homework for wednesday first at night and then and then after that do your homework for the next day because that way you would force you to build in a buffer um and there's of course caveats to this if it's too much work or whatever but like basically it's forcing you to do the little stuff
00:24:07
Speaker
It's not a deadline first. It's kind of counterintuitive. That way you can't skip you have to do the other stuff Um, it's just I guess a way of imposing discipline, but it's interesting because sometimes that makes sense But you know, like if I have to machine something for tomorrow machine the thing you don't have to do tomorrow first get it done um, and i've been think trying to think of a way to articulate when that's a good strategy and when that's a terrible because it's
00:24:31
Speaker
Because it's like we all know that stuff goes wrong and stuff takes longer. Yes, you know you break your last end mill that you have and then yeah, right Yeah Going back real quick to the the thing you mentioned about wanting to make your fixture plates perfect You remember the Peter DeMantis book bold?
Perfection vs Practicality in Business
00:24:52
Speaker
No So was I supposed to read that we I think you listen to the audiobook when we first met at the tormack open house We talked about
00:25:02
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Anyway, bold thinking. God, I don't remember. Maybe that's because it was an audio book. It's been a big year and a half. Anyway, very, very cool guy. I recently got the book bold after listening to the audio book like a year and a half ago. And I read a quick quote that said, perfection is not optional.
00:25:25
Speaker
Okay, but then how do you, this is like my thing, how do you balance that with somebody like Colin Powell, I think had the quote, you know, you get it to 80%, you know, if you wait to get 100% of the information, you'll never make decisions. And 80% quality is not what I'm recommending, but you know, I think the definition of perfection has to be interpreted on a case by case basis. Eric and I talk about this all the time, like when he's polishing something,
00:25:54
Speaker
How polished does it really need to be to be considered perfect in the eyes of the customer? Perfect for us will never be achieved.
00:26:02
Speaker
But, you know, so you don't do blemish blems, right? No, like, we've done principle, we've done a few and we engrave like sometimes we engrave oops, after the cereal. Okay. Yeah, but you feel stupid sending it out there in the world. And then six months later, you get some third party guy that bought it. And like, is this your normal work? And I'm like, no, this was a blem and oops.
00:26:26
Speaker
Um, so I like it though. Um, different business, but with our mini palettes, um, you know, the blends, if it's, if it's screwed up, we throw it away. But like, if it's a little blend that doesn't really affect the use and so forth, then, um, it's actually, it's great. Cause it's a chance to offer it at a discount. Um, still very profitable and keeps me from scrapping. It keeps like, I don't know. I actually, I'm very intrigued by it. Um,
00:26:57
Speaker
Sorry, going back to this idea that it's basically a way to be able to afford perfection, knowing that if it isn't perfect, you can still have money. Yeah, right. Right. Works. I don't know. How's the lathe running?
00:27:12
Speaker
I actually haven't run it that much this week. I made a ton of screws, like 2,000 screws last week. Just the bar feeder or the, not bar feeder, but you know, the sleeve titanium rods and just going to town. Yep. Yep. Just coming in the morning, turn it on, run it, and then run it all day and then put a fresh bar in at 5pm, leave, and it's going to run for another few hours. So you just leave your air compressor on overnight?
00:27:42
Speaker
Yeah, I guess it's not a big deal. No, it's not. I don't really have any big leaks in my shop that constantly eat up air. And actually, my lathe doesn't take any air. What? You need that air on though, don't you? No. My lathe is completely hydraulic. There's not a single air inlet to it? No. It does have one for an air blast if you need it, but the machine operation doesn't use it whatsoever. No kidding.
00:28:10
Speaker
That's great, though. That's phenomenal. You posted this on Instagram, I think, but that's where you're using the smaller torques and a torque setting on the lathe to check whether it machined the torque's head, which tells you tool breakage detection. Exactly. It worked fantastic. I'm machining a T9 Torx and I'm putting a T8 Torx into it to see if it's working.
00:28:34
Speaker
Yeah. And it worked great up until the last maybe 200 screws that I did. And my Torx bit, my regular T9 Torx bit doesn't fit into the machine Torx. So either the end mill is worn out or I replaced it and I put in a slightly smaller end mill. Um, I don't know. So I had a bunch of screws that I had to pick through one by one and stick a driver in and make sure that they were working or not.
00:29:05
Speaker
Instead of using a T8 to do the check, can you use a T9? Yeah. I set that up, but I haven't tested it yet. Got it. So that's kind of my next thing. It'll be tight, but it should test this theory anyway.
00:29:17
Speaker
Right. Or you, I guess, just have to do a schedule. This is what I'm scared of with production, but you have to do a scheduled tool change or tool replacement. Or at least a scheduled check. Every 200 screws or whatever, I can go in and check if the torques fits. Yeah. But hopefully this automated way should work pretty good. Awesome. Yeah, that's really cool. So I see we're coming up on about 30 minutes here. What do we want to cap this thing at?
00:29:47
Speaker
Thank you for listening. Look, I'm really excited for this. I know I get a lot out of our talks and I think people will enjoy seeing the more casual, I hate the word intimate because it sounds weird, but you know what I mean?
00:30:04
Speaker
Yeah, we actually have actually I was really stressed yesterday with like I had I was on the phone with a service tech on something and then I had Two people in the shop trying to meet with me at the same time one it was in and I was filming
00:30:21
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the backside of that new Okamoto grinder to send a video to the service tech checking the hydraulic system on it. And I clicked upload to YouTube for my phone, but I have a new phone and the setting default is public instead of unlisted. And I sat down with my accountant for like 40 minutes after I clicked upload. And there were 500 views on this like two minute private video showing the unders... Luckily it was like nothing big, but I was very embarrassed. It was funny. Wicked.
00:30:52
Speaker
Yeah. Awesome. Well, good. Anything stressful on the computer or work today for you or next week? Not really. Good. Eric and I are finally getting into a really good rhythm. Yeah.
00:31:08
Speaker
Things are starting to go really smoothly. We've got some fairly aggressive goals that we're going to work very hard to hit over the next few months. So both privately and publicly, I'm going to have you keep me accountable for all that. Awesome. Keep posting on Instagram too about how you're shipping RASP reorders. Yes. Yeah. I haven't posted much this week at all. I got to do that.
00:31:31
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Yeah. Um, also I'll let you know how we get along making that test plate. Cool. Excellent. I'll see you next Friday. Sounds good. Have a good weekend. Crush it, bud. Okay. Thanks. Bye. Bye.