Today’s Machining World
Hollywood Soapbox
By Lloyd Graff Have you ever wondered how a movie gets made? This is the inside scoop on that process, right now. Mary Ethridge has written several pieces for Today’s [...]
Is Efficiency Sometimes Unhealthy?
By Noah Graff For the May issue of Today’s Machining World, I interviewed Carl Hoffman, author of the new book, the Lunatic Express. The book chronicles Hoffman’s travels throughout Asia, [...]
Losing My Bearings
by: Lloyd Graff
“Where have all the bearings gone?” This is the sad refrain of anybody looking to rebuild a machine whose mechanical joints depend on Timken tapered roller bearings. As far as…
Murder at Work
A topic seldom discussed in the media is getting some play now because of the killing of Father Edward Hines, a pastor at St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church in Chatham, [...]
On the Auction Blog
Chad Arthur stood in his former office at Arthur Machinery Tuesday with his wife as the auction of the bankrupt machine tool distribution firm he had built into a $80 [...]
Machining Industry Scuttlebutt, The Acme Bell Tolls
Bob Atherton of RACO Industrial Corporation recently passed away at 82. In the rough world of used machinery dealers Bob always stood out as a gentle but indefatigable player. His company [...]
The iPod Doctor
By Noah Graff In the next issue of Today’s Machining World I interview Demetrios Leontaris, otherwise known as the iPod Doctor. He has a business driving all over New York [...]
She’s Holding it Together
Doreen Koop is a gutsy young woman with a kitchen dream. She is an industrial engineer, recently laid off from United Launch Alliance of Decatur, Alabama, where they make parts [...]
A CAM Operated Davenport in a CNC World
Last month I wrote an article about the death of Automatic Machining, in which I ended the piece with a reference to the magazine being a CAM operated Davenport in [...]
My Beloved Bridgeport and KitchenAid
By Lloyd Graff Two icons of American mechanical ingenuity I encounter every day are my Bridgeport Mill and KitchenAid mixer. It struck me that their fortunes are going in different [...]