Within Tolerance

Most great products are born from the frustrations or challenges the creator faces.  Ignite Digi and its co-founder Chris Fox exemplify this, creating amazing camera equipment rooted in personal experience with camera drones and cinematography.  Chris joins Dylan this week to share Ignite's humble beginnings in a garage, their massive growth and acquisition of new machine tools, to their newest piece of equipment on its way.    Check out Chris's IG @madebychrisf ----------------------------------------- Help support the podcast www.patreon.com/withintolerancepodcast

This week's guest Travis Mashburn  deals with a material many machinists dislike, composites.  Travis shares his experience cutting carbon fiber, from tool selection, dry vs. wet, and dust collection.  Travis is also retrofitting his own CNC routers at the same time and talks about his experience with Masso controllers. Check out Travis's IG @unlocked_composites  -----------------------------------------   Help support the podcast www.patreon.com/withintolerancepodcast

Joe Roggenbuck of Cobra Framebuilding has had a whirlwind year since last being on the podcast and is here to share it all! From hiring an employee, to buying his own building Joe has a lot of great information and lessons to share! Check out Joe's IG @cobraframebuilding -----------------------------------------  Help support the podcast www.patreon.com/withintolerancepodcast

What do you do when you want to spend less time working in the business, and want to work on the business instead?  If you're Brian Kippen, you start a second shop across the country!   Dylan is joined by Brian this week to talk about forming a second KAD Models location, automation solutions, model making, cars, and more! Check out Brian's IG @kadmodels ----------------------------------------- Help support the podcast www.patreon.com/withintolerancepodcast

Breaking Taps is a fantastic Youtube channel exploring material science, machining and more!  Zach of Breaking Taps joins Dylan this week to talk new machines, laboriously pouring epoxy granite, failed experiments, and building replicas of the JWST mirror system.   Zach's IG:  @breakingtaps Check out Breaking Taps on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/BreakingTaps Breaking Taps JWST video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MxH1sfJLBQ Okuma Octahedral Hexapod CNC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPS096dUVmw ----------------------------------------- Help support the podcast www.patreon.com/withintolerancepodcast

The roundtable is back!  Easton, Drew, and Jake all rejoin Dylan this week to catch up on new machines, going full-time, broken tools, and more!  Drew is getting the hang of his new (to him) Okuma lathe, Jake is preparing for a weekend of unattended running of his Tsugami, and Easton has been figuring out the world of swiss lathes.  All 4 discuss some of the metrology equipment they have, and the best $500 to spend on inspection equipment.   Check out Drew's IG @drewfab Check out Jake's IG @yatesprecision Check out Easton's IG @moria_manufacturing -----------------------------------------  Help support the podcast www.patreon.com/withintolerancepodcast

What sausage goes best with machining? What options do you want on a Hermle? and what does a black spindle mean? are all questions this week's guest, Daniel Römer discusses this episode.   Daniel runs a shop in Germany, born out of the need for his parent company to produce their own parts.   Daniel and Dylan talk about running Hermle CNC's, Freddy coolant vacuums, what a proper pretzel is, and more! Check out Daniel's IG @bavariacnc and his youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/c/BavariaCNC ----------------------------------------- Help support the podcast www.patreon.com/withintolerancepodcast

Fadal's, Brother's, and crazy mountain biking accidents oh my!  Dylan is joined this week by Joe Kaslowski, owner of Random Fabrication.  Joe and Dylan discuss Joe's new Brother Speedio, his experience with Fadal CNC's, running a small shop in his garage, and more!  Go check out Joe's IG @randomfabrication -----------------------------------------  Help support the podcast www.patreon.com/withintolerancepodcast

Dylan is joined this week by Yamazen application engineer, Ryan Nolan.   Ryan shares his backstory growing up in shops, talks Matsuura 5 axis, and shares interesting crash stories.  Dylan and Ryan dive deep into Speedio options, the new W1000 and D00 control, garage machines, and more!  Go check out Ryan's IG @cnc_guy_ryan ----------------------------------------- Help support the podcast www.patreon.com/withintolerancepodcast

Dylan is joined by Konstantin Ivanov, CEO of DigiFabster this week.   DigiFabster is a software that can automate a lot of the quoting process and allow customers to check out online, rather than going through the traditional RFQ/PO process.  Konstantin shares his backstory, starting in 3D printing, to forming DigiFabster to allow others to use the quoting system they designed for themselves. Konstantin's background started in Marketing and Programming and he shares some simple ways everyone can help update their website to increase conversions.  Go check out DigiFabster's IG @digifabster_us   -----------------------------------------   Help support the podcast www.patreon.com/withintolerancepodcast