Michael King

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[Michael King @MunkworksMike]

Final picture from the old shop! I’ve spent many long hours and late nights here. I built this from scratch, put in power/air myself, and made lots of parts for cool people. Going to miss this place but looking forward to future growth in the new Idaho shop!

[Michael King @MunkworksMike]

The truck is completely loaded and ready to start a new shop in Idaho! Just hand loaded 15 pallets of boxes for 4 hours into all the extra space between the machines and got everything in one truck. Total load time was around 8 hours. This is all my work from the past 4 years ready to drive away and start fresh at a bigger shop!!

[Michael King @MunkworksMike]

Last pieces of big equipment going on the truck after 4 hours of loading! Citizen Swiss lathe and 12’ bar feeder. There are still 15 pallets of small shop equipment to load but all the big equipment has already filled the truck to the back.

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[Michael King @MunkworksMike]

Mill, Laser, and Lathe all loaded up and secured to the trailer!

[Michael King @MunkworksMike]

11,000lb lathe sitting 5’ high on the forklift getting loaded onto the truck. This is terrifying to watch but the riggers did an excellent job loading it. The machine is also 18” wider than the interior door which made for an interesting removal process.

[Michael King @MunkworksMike]

53’ air ride Conestoga truck arrived at the shop at 10:00am yesterday morning ready for loading!!! Got a few hours of sleep and ready to get back to work.

[Michael King @MunkworksMike]

This is me working till 3:00am in the shop yesterday doing last minute work to prepare machines for shipment to a new facility. It’s 38deg too.

[Michael King @MunkworksMike]

@MatsuuraUSA I had the opportunity to meet Mr. Matsuura at the Titans of CNC Boombastic event last week! I'm 20 and just got my first MX-330 on order to arrive next week!

[Michael King @MunkworksMike]

@TimmySeto Looks great! What tooling and cut parameters are you using to get that finish?

[Michael King @MunkworksMike]

Met some really cool people today! lakewoodmachine Ian Sandusky has been a huge inspiration for me running a machine shop as a 20yo. It was great to meet in person!

[Michael King @MunkworksMike]

Met Destin @smartereveryday. Super cool guy and has been a massive inspiration to me over the past 10+ years of YouTube videos.

[Michael King @MunkworksMike]

Had the amazing opportunity to meet Titan Gilroy at TITANS of CNC MACHINING today. He has been an amazing inspiration over the past 4 years and is the reason I own 4 CNC machines as a 20yo. Thank you Titan! @titangilroy

[Michael King @MunkworksMike]

This is so cool! Will go research this now to figure out how to do it with a turning tool! I've been doing it for a while on Titanium parts using a Keyseat cutter for both the start and end, but this looks way faster. I love the finished threads when they have the Higbee cut added. Thanks for the info in here!

[Michael King @MunkworksMike]

Doing some tight tolerance (for me) shaft work on a 6-4 titanium part. This has a 0.0003" tolerance and 32 finish requirement along the length. It's about 1/4 by 2" long and completed on my the ST 20Y. Definitely not the right machine for it, but the customer needed perfect parts fast, so this is what I used. Learned a lot about the machine and how to hold this tolerance reliably doing it this way. I had to cut in multiple sections from oversized stock, as well as hand edit the G-Code to compensate for the taper caused by material deflection. Overall a really fun project. Excited to see some Swiss machines for similar parts soon at @titangilroy Boombastic 2025!

[Michael King @MunkworksMike]

Need to figure out a better chip solution. This is after a 6 hour run that does most of the roughing with an Endmill since the parts are off center.

[Michael King @MunkworksMike]

Doing some drill and tap work close to the main spindle. using Maritool 2" extentions to make all the clearances work.

[Michael King @MunkworksMike]

Came into the shop this morning to a completed bar of 4140PH parts! This ran for 6 hours overnight using the sub spindle to pull the material. I don't currently run these 1.5" dia bars with the bar feeder due to balance issues with the current spindle liner. Working on building a precision liner that will allow me to run more than one bar at a time.

[Michael King @MunkworksMike]

Another cool part. DLC coated titanium muzzle brake.

[Michael King @MunkworksMike]

Starting work on the new shop! Hoping to load it up with scary fast 11 axis lathes and automated machining cells by the end of the year. Meeting the power company this coming week to get 3 phase run before machines hit the floor. Going to have a lot of fun on this build.

[Michael King @MunkworksMike]

Seeing this a year late so you probably already have a better solution, but a cheap auto shutoff fuel pump handle plumbed into the water line will keep buckets from overflowing if you get sidetracked with taking care of machines. I flooded my shop a few times before finding that solution.