My name is Ariel Bolanos, I'm the owner operator of Boss & Sons LLC.
And we are a small machine shop located in Wisconsin.
I have been welding since I was twelve years old and
have been machining since i could stand.
I got interested in machining honestly in my early twenties when i uh...
realized they didn't have the money to pay someone to build all the stuff for
my hobby which is my car
So I guess I learned a lot of stuff out of necessity.
I found the Tormach mills after doing a significant amount of research on what
was out there, so I want to get something newer that would give me the amount of hours
out of it that I need.
I have operated...
various large machines with various different controllers
so
the Tormach was actually quite user friendly...
...to get the grasp of. But the main reason we went...
...with the eleven hundred was for the ATC. I felt like if I wanted to...
...be competitive...
... on quotes for production, even if for the small production runs then I had to have the ATC.
I think if I was just standing there babysitting it or changing the tools then I wouldn't be competitive enough for the market.
One of my favorite options on the Tormach is definitely the scan tool that allows you to..
...take a...
...part with a profile of a hole locations and put it in the mill...
...and then...
...pick up the geometry...
...based off of a series of...
...images that are then scaled by the machine movement.
From there you can draw the geometry as you need it,
and import it into your CAD cam system.
and uh...
...work with...
...that image that you created.
This is a vacuum pump impeller, bronze vacuum pump impeller from...
a vacuum pump system in a large building that is...
...pulling ventilation out of labs.
It clearly broke the fin and has been worn.
So we were asked if we could replicate this vacuum pump impeller.
And the only way that I thought I could do it was by...
...putting it into the mill and using the scan tool,
which then gave me the geometry of the fins.
After having the geometry of the fins I was able to
...draw it...
...and then extrude it..
to have these surfaces to then generate tool paths from.
One of the industries that I have been making quite a few components for is a start-up...
...that is doing diamond coating...
...on micro end-mills.
they've been having me build
the majority of the fixturing for inside the back of their vacuum chamber.
Everything's either stainless, macor, which is machinable glass...
...ceramic...
or glass filled micah which is another ceramic.
So i've been working with a large range of materials not just your standard...
...materials like I did at other shops.
Today, I'm going to show you guys we're...
...making some prototype components...
...for a DSLR Shoulder rig...
...that we've been developing...
uh... with a customer.
I don't find that I have a particular niche industry at this point.
I can make...
...almost anything...
But if someone provides me with a print that I feel I can't, I'll be the first one to tell them.
The ultimate goal of Boss & Sons is for me...
...to have a crew of guys that I can trust,
and have a clientele base
that needs...
...parts in a timely manner that I can supply to them.