Business of Machining - Episode 121

Saunders pushes through the pain of a bowling injury. He's still tough enough to make parts on his new 5-axis machine! And there's SO MUCH to learn about it.  Saunders wants to work on the 6th side of a part with his 5-axis, and then eventually tab it off Let's start a tab.  Saunders gives some tips on how to tab off a part, and what he's learned since starting to play with his 5-axis. "Filing is not great, scotch brite wheels work but it’s not the best. The trick is just to get really good at tabbing" - Saunders QoftD: How are X and Y handled by the post? Learn more about this in Saunders' recent video ELIMINATE THE RISK OF TOUCHING YOUR TOOLS OFF Meanwhile, there should be a better way in Fusion to do tool orientation.  “I would absolutely consider a 2 or 300 tool machine now” - Saunders More and more Swissish everyday Grimsmo is getting the Swiss lathe all set up, and it's bringing the team closer together (quite literally) "The shop is TIGHT" - Grimsmo  “In the ideal shop you never have to say excuse me” - Angelo The Grimsmo shop is running out of floor space, but everyone is being a good sport and is excited about the new machine! More to come once Grimsmo translates the french manual that came with one of the components of the machine...or maybe he'll just get an English one.  Fun Fact: Grimsmo’s Swiss lathe was made in the Tornos factory in Taiwan. Up until that factory was planted, Tornos had really only been in Switzerland land and, after 150 years of being in the same location, the CEO says "It was SO nice to start from scratch!"  Prune the beautiful tree that is your machine shop. “A purge every once in a while is not enough, I want to be pruning the tree and regularly cleaning things out” - Saunders Swiss Lathe timeline Schedule application engineers for mid to late next week, which should coincide with tooling getting delivered Then make some chips!! Links mentioned in the podcast: The Digital Refractometer Proportional Mixer for Coolant and Soluble Oil Speeds and Feed Class with Saunders Also in this episode: Don't flood your shop, leave your car keys on the "off" switch Grimsmo moves the air compressor through his tight shop. "I should've done it a long time ago!" - Grimsmo Grimsmo buys a second coolant/oil drum, and Saunders buys his first one How rotary unions work  Grimsmo’s got blade show this weekend! Catch him and his team at booth 952.   

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