John Grimsmo of Grimsmo Knives and John Saunders of NYC CNC discuss their success, struggles, goals and more as machinists, business owners and entrepreneurs.
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TOPICS: Latest hyperobsession - Chemistry Saunders yard sale Sense of Community LINK: https://forms.gle/CSLjYSQshDqDCWRE6 Local Machinist and makers group Grimsmo's Week in Review video Life hacks Nakamura window shattered, replacement is in. Torque wrenches LINK: https://saundersmachineworks.com/collections/equipment-for-sale…
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TOPICS: Loneliness in entrepreneurship banking relationships Kosterising heat treat New Willemin coming to Saunders Frustrated with IOT devices Selling tools at the open house LINK IN DESCRIPTION WITH OPEN HOUSE DETAILS: https://saundersmachineworks.com/collections/equipment-for-sale/products/yard-sale…
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TOPICS: hardmilling Prototyping new products Reaming holes Viewer mail
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TOPICS: Grimsmo's new knife I love heat treating! Should I get a Brother Speedio R650? Crashed the Speedio probe Quality of life improvements
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#360 Being too nice or too driven to your staff?
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TOPICS: Being too nice or too driven to your staff? Grimsmo's Willemin needs pneumatic work Solved the Horizontal chip sorting issue Cash management Exit interviews Repair parts process bins
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TOPICS: Grimsmo's new knife has a blade! Saunders yard sale! Sat April 13, 2024 inverse of the Rule Of Pi Programming on the Horizontal Having a hard time selling 2 Haas machines carbon fiber double tape method
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#358 Gridfinity bins and inserted tooling
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TOPICS: Gridfinity bins and inserted tooling 75 Hard Grimsmo's new Employee What's more accurate, axial or radial cuts? diamond burnishing on swiss LTL freight stress Labeling fixtures with paint Speedio tool touchoffs Saunders sorting chips
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#357 Override Process Sheets and Process Bins
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TOPICS: override process sheets and process bins Kids and work Days Off In The Shop is a failure Gridfinity! Grimsmo's erowa and Speedio update Automation and pallet changing Hardmilling
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TOPICS Knifemaking Tuesdays are back! Multi color 3d printing Breaking drill bits Fusion Trim toolpath Days Off In The Shop is difficult, but wonderful Grimsmo's Speedio and Erowa are hooked up! Heat treating pullstuds
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#355 Days off in the shop - Best business decision EVER
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TOPICS: Grimsmo's plans for the year Naming products Days off in the shop - Best business decision EVER New employee at Grimsmo Knives Releasing new products Tom Lipton mentor Saving time and money
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#354 Tracking and quantifying order issues
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TOPICS: Days Off In The Shop ("Doits") Taking Purchasing off my plate Tracking and quantifying order issues Magnetic chip separator Variation between fixtures
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#353 Coming in hot for 2024. Reflecting and planning
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TOPICS: Coming in hot for 2024. Reflecting and planning. Buckling down for a tough year. Grimsmo Buyer's Choice, new knife model Grimsmo's Eumach machines Selling CNC machines How do we buy cleaning supplies Dual color 3d printing for text
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#352 Questions and Answers Episode
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TOPICS: · Wen_mir_langwilig_isch How is lights out affecting cost benefit with the side eye on the time spent for process reliability? · Burnandturnfabrication Name one thing that you didn’t think would change the business but made the company. · Benji_fost thoughts on haas pulling the UMC 350 from commercial sales? Do you feel left high and dry? ·…
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TOPICS: Business existentialism FOCUS Facemill blew up Horizontal deburring
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#350 Defining the vision of your company
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Topics: Defining the vision of your company Dedicating time to organize the shop Post processors scrap metal company designing a new knife
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TOPICS: Distributing tasks among the team SmarterEveryDay Nasa video - watch it! End-of-year goals DSI video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubQ1LLYvaaU 4th-grade class lecture DLC coatings on pens and knives Costing mistakes
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TOPICS: Grimsmo's CMM is producing interesting results! Bad fixtures are bad! Probing too much isn't always a good thing Personal goal failures "The Machine That Changed the World" book The era of lean manufacturing Mailcall request - businessofmachining@gmail.com Mentors and advisors
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TOPICS Haas power usage correction Erik is getting married We did not crash the Okuma... hiring Okamoto surface grinding Puck Chuks in stock!
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TOPICS: Grimsmo's Kern had toolchanger errors Procedures and process bins Power consumption on CNC machines - $0.05/hr for Haas to be on. Air compressor maintenance selling machines DNS settings to make sure e-mails get to customers, thanks Joe F DKIM add freshdesks to SPF records custom endmills from deboer Nakamura lathe issues Oil skimmers Criti…
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TOPICS: SMW stopping through coolant drill bits Utility bills Pierre being deported Speedio high accuracy mode Grinding wheel technology Detent ball dropper Gen3 mod vises Super secret sauce
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TOPICS: SMW Willemin is fixed! Replacement Fanuc motor worked. Haas UMC350 Office Phones "Lean Built" podcast with Jay and Andrew "Sooner, not faster" "Slow is smooth, smooth is fast" "Speed is fine, but accuracy is final" Blinders in business Wera tooling SMW is selling Proven Cut
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#343 Four Areas that will put you out of business
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TOPICS: Grimsmo visited Kern Precision in Chicago! Four Areas that will put you out of business What I need and want out of the company by the end of the year Tour of Lapmaster Saunders made a splash guard for his Okuma grinder "we have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one" Confucius…
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TOPICS: Maintaining CNC machines Process bins! Carbon Fiber tips and tricks Sandvik drills ERP systems managing lead times Freshdesk for customer service
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TOPICS: Work/Life balance Okuma Horizontal machining valve covers 3d printing parts for the shop Fusion 360 frustrations Grimsmo vising Kern Precision in Chicago Shipping computers 3d printed metal parts craftcloud3d.com
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TOPICS: CMTS tradeshow "Tool Aquisition Syndrome" Tool life and Sandvik tooling reps Polishing small parts Saunders designed a door for his surface grinder Machine maintenance, Kern and Willemin Carbon fiber Saga
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