Within Tolerance

Born from frustration with a bad light, Okluma and is owner Jeff Sapp create high end EDC lights that are incredibly popular. Jeff joins Dylan this week to share his backstory, talks sub-spindle live tooling lathes, moving the company, and crazy 1000 mile endurance bike races. Go check out Jeff's IG @_okluma_ ----------------------------------------- Help support the podcast www.patreon.com/withintolerancepodcast

Have you ever wondered how National Geographic gets those crazy shots right up next to animals? This week's guest, Tom O'Brien is the one to help make those possible. Tom works at National Geographic as a Photo Engineer taking the ideas of photographers and making them a reality. Dylan and Tom talk about cameras, gear, the best shop from the 70s, the Rock, and more! Go check out Tom's IG @mechanicalphoto ----------------------------------------- Help support the podcast www.patreon.com/withintolerancepodcast

Are you tired of having to do calculations to see when a job will be finished? This week's guest Pete Oxenham was, and created his new company Chatter.dev to solve this problem and many more dealing with machine data. Pete tells Dylan of his beginnings in manufacturing, starting with making car parts for his Mustang, to acquiring an Enshu HMC to meet a new customer demand, to starting a software company to solve internal data collection problems in his job shop. Pete shares stories of getting his first machine dropped off and the ensuing struggle with finding a post to manually walking through his first horizontal program to prevent crashes. If you want to know more about the public beta for Chatter head over to www.chatter.dev or find Pete @ftr.cnc and @chatter.dev on Instagram -----------------------------------------   Help support the podcast www.patreon.com/withintolerancepodcast

Hot off a record year Andrew rejoins Dylan on the podcast to talk about the unexpected realities of owning a business with such massive growth. From the toll paying taxes takes at a large scale, to moving the entire business to a new shop, to researching and adopting an ERP Andrew has had a year full of immense highs and lows. Dylan and Andrew talk about systems and how they do/do not scale with growth, setting inventory minimums, and less than ideal dealings with tooling manufacturers. -----------------------------------------  Help support the podcast www.patreon.com/withintolerancepodcast

Easton comes back on the podcast to talk full-time running his shop and all things Moria Manufacturing. Dylan and Easton share crash stories, near misses, and where they see their shops going. Dylan asks Easton about a realization he had about going full-time, and both discuss different CNC control pros and cons. ----------------------------------------- Help support the podcast www.patreon.com/withintolerancepodcast

WT's first guest, Dan Rudolph, returns this week to talk with Dylan about a year of growth, learning, and packing ever more machinery in their shop. Dylan and Dan discuss moving compressors and RapidAir systems. Dan has spent the last year tooling up a process for a difficult part and shares things learned about the long term development process. Dan talks machines with a new Swiss on its way to him. Find Dan on IG @dannyrudolph -----------------------------------------  MIT OpenCourseware Intro to Nuclear Engineering https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/nuclear-engineering/22-01-introduction-to-nuclear-engineering-and-ionizing-radiation-fall-2016/ -----------------------------------------  Help support the podcast www.patreon.com/withintolerancepodcast

Joining Dylan this week is James Milne of Fifty50 Knives, maker of some of the finest kitchen cutlery out there. James started off hand making knifes but demand quickly grew to the point where CNC became a need. James tells of buying used machinery, the issues that came with them, and a fantastic story of determination and overcoming these issues. Dylan and James also discuss 3D printing and the benefits to be found in resin 3D printers. ----------------------------------------- Help support the podcast www.patreon.com/withintolerancepodcast

 Have you ever wondered how a scientist would approach machining? Wonder no further! Dylan is joined by Marvin Groeb, or @marvgro on IG, System Engineer at Kern with a Masters in Materials Science. Listen in as Marv tells about using the scientific method to test speeds and feeds, shaping with a Kern 5 axis, cutting ceramics and more! Marv brings a wonderful mindset to machining and his background and curiosity has led him to create some amazing works. ---------------------------------------- The Breaking Taps video mentioned: https://youtu.be/aog0syGaZzQ ----------------------------------------- Eulerian Video Magnefication https://youtu.be/fHfhorJnAEI ----------------------------------------- Help support the podcast  www.patreon.com/withintolerancepodcast 

The Yetiman returns! Dylan is joined once again by Jeff Tiedeken of MLS Aerospace and Cutting Time for an episode full of fun stories, lessons learned, and awesome builds. Jeff talks about his adventures spinning up a nuclear project, quantum computers, building show bikes, and accidentally buying a mine. Dylan and Jeff both have new machines with another new one on the way for Jeff, so they both lament about tearing up their shops for machine moves. Jeff tells us the story of Cutting Time, from conception to patents, to scoring a killer deal on an injection molding machine.  --------------------------------- Help support the podcast at www.patreon.com/withintolerancepodcast Go check out Jeff's IG at https://www.instagram.com/yetiman01 And go visit Cutting Time at https://cuttingtime.com/

All it takes is a brief glance at Uriel's website to know he loves making things. From water treatment to space suit hardware it seems like he's successfully gone wherever his interests take him. Uriel joins Dylan this week to discuss his newest company, Austere Manufacturing, where they are making some incredible soft goods buckles. Uriel talks about the steps taken to get up to speed producing the buckles as well as automation efforts to make them even more unattended. Dylan and Uriel nerd out about Brother Speedios, process reliability, and tool breakage detection. Help support the podcast at www.patreon.com/withintolerancepodcast