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Beginning Life at 80
As I prepare for another birthday and ponder whether to start my Social Security checks (you get more per month if you wait), I’m considering the value of work for [...]
Dying for What?
If you want a dose of machining today go directly to the ads, because I’m mad and I just can’t take it anymore. In a couple of days we’ll celebrate [...]
How It Works – Getting a GRIP
Sure, any old vise can hold the part on a machine table, but a well-thought-out workholding scheme can help you squeeze more chip-making time out of every shift. Certain basic [...]
The Gorbachev of GM
With GM going public today and bringing back billions to the taxpayers, we are seeing a batch of revisionist opinion pieces about Rick Wagoner, former head of the auto giant. [...]
The Mormon Missionary Advantage
Pilkington Metal Finishing employs 110 workers and does upwards of $5 million a year in aluminum anodizing work out of a 72,000 square foot building five minutes from the Salt [...]
Rising New Machine Tool Prices
We are seeing an acceleration of year end buying in machinery for both new and used equipment. One reason for this is the widespread business expectation that prices for new [...]
The Price of Anything
One of my abiding lifetime fascinations has been under-standing how markets value things. My father raised me on stories about buying machines at low prices and selling them at higher [...]
Iron Turns to Gold
The mood has changed in the last few weeks in the precision machining world. It became real to me as I talked to folks at the Asset Sales auction at [...]
Auction Action
I attended the auction of Caire Medical’s surplus machinery Nov. 4, in Indianapolis. The auctioneer, Asset Sales Inc. of Indian Trail, North Carolina, had a financial interest in the sale. [...]