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Grateful for Sports
By Lloyd Graff I play a little game with myself everyday. I take a moment to think of five things I feel grateful for and then visualize them. I consider [...]
Commonyms: What is the common trait for each three words?
1. Help – Yesterday – Revolution 2. Moth – Meat – Medicine 3. Robert Kennedy – Julius Ceasar – John Lennon 4. Orchestras – Ears – Brakes 5. Cliff – [...]
Machinist in the Womb
By Lloyd Graff Hunter Jamison and his two brothers Scot and Terry own and operate Millipart Inc., an aerospace machining firm southeast of Los Angeles in Glendora, Cal. Their father [...]
Machining Solo
By Lloyd Graff Chuck DeLong says he “can’t deal with people,” but he loves his old CNC machines, which he cajoles to run perfect pieces like other people baby their [...]
Shop Doc – Mark S. Begone
Today’s Machining World Archive: January 2008, Vol.4, Issue 01 Dear Shop Doc, I¹m having an issue with a job we run on a CNC Swiss. If I adjust the bushing [...]
Going Underground: Subterranean Manufacturing
U.S. commerce is moving underground, especially in Kansas City. Lured by the promise of low overhead and virtually no infrastructural investment, some four hundred enterprises currently call subterranean Kansas City [...]
Amish Precision Machining
By Lloyd Graff The variety of small business permutations in America always surprises me. In the rolling prairie of Northwest Indiana-Amish Country—Eli L. runs 3 1-1/4″ RA6 National Acme screw [...]
Nagel ECO 40 Honing System with Automatic Tool Wear Compensation & Form Error Detection and Correction System
Nagel Precision’s (Ann Arbor, MI) high volume honing systems have been the automotive industry’s gold standard for decades, with over 60% market share in North America for honing engine blocks, [...]
Machining Industry Scuttlebutt
By Lloyd Graff The BNSF Railroad, Warren Buffet’s recent $27 billion acquisition, is putting 11 miles of railcars back in service after storing them for close to three years in [...]
Are Machinery Trade Shows Becoming Obsolete?
By Lloyd Graff WESTEC as we know it is changing. There will be no show in 2011 in Los Angeles. SME (Society of Manufacturing Engineers), which organized the 2010 event, [...]