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Milling Dollars Baby – Manufacturing Filmmaking Accessories
By Noah Graff Today’s Machining World Archives January/February 2011 Volume 7 Issue 1 Ten minutes into my interview with Jens Bogehegn and Steve Weiss, the co-founders and owners of Zacuto [...]
A Day in the Life of a Job Shop Guy
“Mike” owns a small job shop in South Carolina. He started from scratch building a machining business from a turret lathe and a mill. He loves the business and asked [...]
Looking back at 2011. Ahead to 2012.
Wow, what an interesting and surprising year. Osama Bin Laden knocked off. Muammar Gadhafi whacked. Kim Jong-il dead. Tough year for bad guys. Mubarak in jail, Bashar al-Assad in big [...]
Shop Doc – Chatter while turning on 20mm Swiss CNC Lathe
Dear Shop Doc, We are having trouble with chatter while turning on our 20mm Swiss CNC lathe. We recently replaced the guide bushing bearings and we have the bushing adjusted [...]
Tim Tebow. Enough Already?
I’ve been anxious to see Tim Tebow, the controversial Denver Broncos quarterback people love to hate because he is unabashedly committed to his religious faith and fearlessly shows it to [...]
Shop Doc – Should I rebuild my Acme?
Dear Shop Doc, My Acme-Gridley screw machines have been real money makers over the years, but all that production takes its toll in wear and tear on the machines. Will [...]
Health: Halitosis to the Mostest
We’ve all been there. You are working closely with someone, thoroughly engaged in conversation, and BOOM! You back up, eyes watering, trying desperately not to make the “Oh My God! [...]
Is College a Waste of Time and Money?
I had an opportunity to interview James Altucher, a writer, Web guy, venture capitalist, stock picker, who has a big following as a blogger. We discussed a lot of topics, [...]
Industry Scuttlebutt
If Mitt Romney does decently in Iowa and wins New Hampshire he has the Republican nomination. If Newt Gingrich wins Iowa and is respectable in New Hampshire he has a [...]
An Interview with former Major Leaguer Doug Glanville
After attending the University of Pennsylvania for engineering, Doug Glanville played centerfield for the Chicago Cubs and Philadelphia Phillies from 1996 to 2004, accumulating 1100 hits and a 293-game errorless [...]