New Mantec base grinding machine installed

The plan is for Stefano and Giuseppe to spend the week carefully walk me through every conceivable maintenance and operational procedure.  Everything from cleaning things to replacing and repairing pneumatics, filters, pumps.   In general, the division of duties is that Giuseppe handles all the maintenance and software and systems items, while Stefano passes down the "right way" to operate the machine from his perspective as an expert World Cup serviceman (Stefano has worked 6 Olympics and at least a dozen world championships).

This arrangement works for me. As an engineer myself, I appreciate the priorities, the analytical clarity, detail and perfection that Giuseppe imparts.  As a ski grinder, I also really like the perspective and tips and tricks that Stefano has - he's an absolute encyclopedia of useful, precise, practical knowledge.

For me, the learning process isn't about how to "grind a ski" nor how to "tune a ski", but instead it's about how to fully utilize this particular Mantec grinder. It makes it much simpler for Stefano and Giuseppe that I already have a thorough understanding of how the machine variables and parameters affect each other, and how they're manipulated to get the structures that are needed.   

By the end of the day today, we began loading some of the standard structures into the program memory on the Mantec.  Progress. Lots of progress.