Videos
Shop Doc – Stringy Aluminum Chips
Dear Shop Doc, We are running a long aluminum part on our CNC Swiss and are having problems with long stringy chips building up in the machine that are getting [...]
An Interview with Carlos Cardoso CEO of Kennemetal
Today’s Machining World Archive: September 2007 Vol. 3, Issue 09 Lloyd Graff: Kennametal was a global firm when you took over, but now you are making it more so. Can [...]
Centerless Grinding 101 with Romas Juodvalkis
By Lloyd and Noah Graff In April of 2010 Lloyd and Noah Graff interviewed Romas Juodvalkis, owner of Allways Precision, a rebuilder of centerless grinders, to get an education on [...]
Only God Knows What This Machine Is Worth
Two and a half months ago I jumped from working full time at Today’s Machining World into the wild laissez-faire world that is the used machinery business. One thing that [...]
I Wish I Knew Then What I Know Now
-Barack Obama is Jimmy Carter without the sweater. -World Book and the Encyclopedia Britannica would become almost completely obsolete. -Split finger fastballs are arm killers. -Pickled beets in horseradish are [...]
New Thinking Inside The Box
Sal Khan was a math wiz and wanna be entrepreneur who moved to Silicon Valley after graduating from MIT in 1998. After the dot-com bubble burst in 2000 he knocked around [...]
We’ve Gotta Protect Our Phony Baloney Jobs!
I’m sure most of you are tired of the chicken playing in congress by both parties as debt ceiling doomsday gets ridiculously close. It makes me chuckle as I think [...]
A Cure for Your Golf Slice?
Would golf still be fun if you knew you couldn’t slice the ball? A new golf ball is available that reduces slices by 70 percent because of a clever use [...]
The Mike Rowe Effect?
A brilliant quarter for Ford. The company is coining money. Mike Jackson CEO of AutoNation, predicts the firm will sell 100,000 cars this year. Domestic car production is running at [...]
Religion of Baseball
One of my most important spiritual holidays is approaching. Not Passover, not Easter, but one just as big on my calendar—Opening Day—of the baseball season. If you define religious experience [...]