Within Tolerance

Whether you know him from his company Zodiac Engineering, from his products and parts, or as your new friendly neighborhood Yamazen Applications Engineer, Ken is a staple in the machinist community. Listen in as Ken and Dylan talk about his origin story, product development and machining, new knives in the making, and the move into Apps. Help support the podcast! https://www.patreon.com/Withintolerancepodcast

Have you even come across Spencer Webb's page and thought "what makes this guy tick?". Well grab your favorite beverage, pull up a chair, and listen in as Spencer tells us his story. From the MIT Pistol team, to getting his pilots license, to designing antennas for some amazing challenges Spencer shares the circuitous route he took to end up where he is as antenna consultant and purveyor of precision PFG stones. Help support the podcast! https://www.patreon.com/Withintolerancepodcast

From NASA robotics competitions, to owning his own shop Juan March comes on the show to talk about the creation of Jax Precision and his backstory. Juan shares the successes and trials of owning his own shop, from trying to find shop space, to buying his second machine. Dylan and Juan discuss coolant choices, finding job shop work, machine options, and starting and maintaining a quality system. Help support the podcast! https://www.patreon.com/Withintolerancepodcast

Going from squirting plastic out of his 3D printer, to ripping it to shreds with his Datron in such a short time, Ed Kramer has put himself through quite the manufacturing journey the last few years. This week Dylan talks to Ed about all things Datron, compressors and mini splits, and how many ice cube trays one machinist needs. Ed talks about digital height gages and metrology and future machine purchases. Help support the podcast! https://www.patreon.com/Withintolerancepodcast

When this week's guest Michael Sargent ran into the issue of accurate and dense workholding for his companies Carbon Tactics and Gear Fur, he leaned on his background in engineering and kinematics to design vises and start Flux Workholding. Dylan and Michael go through the ins and the outs of the vise, the ideas that shaped it, and the concepts its based on. With Michael being a veteran of kickstarter both also discuss the benefits of a pre-order and how to handle such an influx of orders. Michael shares his products landing in some unusual places and some cool things he's working on in VR. Help support the podcast! https://www.patreon.com/Withintolerancepodcast

"Using Ingenuity in a timely manner" is how this week's guest Brad Frazier describes his company. Brad runs Hourglass Ingenuity making some amazing welding and organization products in his Haas Mini Mill at home. Dylan and Brad talk about how Brad started in fabrication and machining, from working on Honda Ruckuses to stirring up a ruckus on Instagram with his high quality beautifully anodized products. Brad fills us in on tricks to make your anodizer relationship better, pros and cons of his Mini Mill, packaging, and the lost art of being a craftsman. Help support the podcast at https://www.patreon.com/Withintolerancepodcast

This week Dylan is joined by Callye Keen of Red Blue Collective and K-Form. Callye shares from his deep background in business development and quality management at K-Form, and his business coaching and product development experience from Red Blue Collective. Callye tells us his experience in creating successful kickstarters and product launches, and ways you can make sure your next product launch goes well.  Both Dylan and Callye talk about how "good enough" has become the norm, and ways to make your business stand out. Check out Callye's work at https://www.redbluecollective.com/ , on his instagram @callyekeen , and his podcast @endhypeoffical

This week Dylan is joined by Emory Rempel of Farside Components. Emory works during the day at J.S. Foster, a machine shop that also has its own house brand, Islander Reels. After hours Emory is working on starting his own brand of mountain bike parts called Farside Components. Emory and Dylan talk about the new multi axis machine at J.S Foster, the trials and tribulations of starting a business, and how Google should have a new dad mode.

This week Dylan is joined by Adam Balogh, Department Chair of Machine Technology at Laney College aka @Laneymachinetech on Instagram. Adam shares with us his backstory, starting in something surprisingly different than machining, to working with Tom Lipton at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, to teaching young aspiring machinists. Adam talks about his projects, 3d printing, keeping students inspired, and more.  Nickolas Means talk on 3 mile island: https://youtu.be/hMk6rF4Tzsg  Laney College Machine Technology Department Website: https://laney.edu/machine_technology/  Instagram: @laneymachinetech (2x)  YouTube Channels: Machine Tech Video Blog; Laney Machine Tech  Berkeley Center for Magnet Technology at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: https://bcmt.lbl.gov/  NYC|CNC Tour of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: https://youtu.be/FmmNRaKpBTI  East Bay Municipal Utility District (Local Water/Wastewater Utility with Repair Machine Shop): https://www.ebmud.com/  Terminal Manufacturing Co. (CNC/Manual Job Shop): https://www.terminalmanufacturing.com/  Book Mentioned: "The Instructor, the Man and the Job: A Hand Book for Instructors of Industrial and Vocational Subjects" by Charles Allen (Available @ https://archive.org/details/instructormanjob00allerich)  Source for Inexpensive Quality Surplus Optics: www.surplusshed.com  Dan Gelbart's Precision Air Bearing Lathe: https://youtu.be/sFrVdoOhu1Q  Adam's YouTube Series on Autocollimators: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLL-aWzAbmoUn435Fq3MEAClddgrsPfXPO

This week Dylan is joined by John Miller of Way Of The Mill, a CNC consulting and training company. John starts off explaining how he got into machining, from a college project, to working applications at Makino, to ramping up iPhone production cells. John and Dylan talk about tool holders, tooling, the best 40x20 options for a listener question, and more. John is a wealth of knowledge on CNC, production machining, and process engineering and shares a bunch of great tips. The episode rounds out with some funny stories from the field.