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100,000 UK Covid 19 Deaths
Wondered whether PM had maybe changed to a forum about machining and manufacturing in the last month or so. But no, same drivel. On your planet, is Joe Biden not cognitively impaired?- Oldwrench
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- Forum: Manufacturing in America and Europe
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Suggestions for Startup Manufacturing Businesses
And the word of mouth when entering a new market is satisfying indeed. If you sold out to a big company like Lincoln, that's the holy grail compared to the way most businesses get disposed of. I hope that sooner or later somebody with a big enough checkbook wants to own my business more than I...- Oldwrench
- Post #49
- Forum: Shop Management and Owner Issues
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Suggestions for Startup Manufacturing Businesses
You mention having sold the business in 2011 about the time competitors were springing up. It's rare that the timing works out for selling a business; it requires the buyer to believe it's still on the way up. Is the guy who bought your operation still in business?- Oldwrench
- Post #46
- Forum: Shop Management and Owner Issues
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Suggestions for Startup Manufacturing Businesses
True, but you don't want to end up dependent on a prima donna. Here's a better way: work hard enough for long enough to be able to lease-purchase some CNCs, hire reliable intelligent people, and train them as operators. When one person can run 2-3 machines you will have broken that depressing...- Oldwrench
- Post #24
- Forum: Shop Management and Owner Issues
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Suggestions for Startup Manufacturing Businesses
Without casting aspersion on the OP, his voluminous advice is highly generalized and could have been taken from most of the books you can buy at an airport. A manufacturing business, while subject of course to the universal—and obvious—laws of economics, is a different kettle of fish entirely...- Oldwrench
- Post #23
- Forum: Shop Management and Owner Issues
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Suggestions for Startup Manufacturing Businesses
The statement advising renting over ownership is bit simplistic IMHO. Owning gives you the ability to lease the premises to your company for $10K a month or whatever. Rent is throwing away money, unless your operations are easily portable (like a warehouse). Also it's just plain nice not to have...- Oldwrench
- Post #12
- Forum: Shop Management and Owner Issues
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Union vs non union shops...
Alternatively, the ones with brains, ambition and foresight quit and go elsewhere.- Oldwrench
- Post #6
- Forum: Manufacturing in America and Europe
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100,000 UK Covid 19 Deaths
As a currently active machinist I don't visit PM much anymore because the post count now mainly consists of endless vituperation from Big B and Milland. I bet their keyboards are sticky from dreaming 24/7 about being reeducation camp instructors. Useless twats.- Oldwrench
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- Forum: Manufacturing in America and Europe
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Suspected Chinese knockoff starting-what would you do?
So much for the Shop Owner forum. It used to be a refuge from the Death to America forum, but obvously not any more.- Oldwrench
- Post #125
- Forum: Shop Management and Owner Issues
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The Ethics of Automation
Sounds like the Nigerian prince who emailed me last week.- Oldwrench
- Post #90
- Forum: Robots and Automation
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Large Diameter Cold Saw vs Band Saw Cut Speeds
We are scrapping a Pedrazzoli Super Brown 350 semiautomatic cold saw bought new in 2001. Compared to the band saw we had at the time it cut squarer and involved less overall work. However after the band saw got replaced in 2005 by a HEM double column 14-inch band saw, that all changed. The... -
Interesting article about Chinese ball bearing production
The auto industry years ago engineered an exemption for bearings, presumably not wanting to reveal where they came from. It could've been fear of being associated in the commercial marketplace with the Chicoms (think Nike/slave labor, etc) but more likely they wanted to conceal their sources of...- Oldwrench
- Post #74
- Forum: Manufacturing in America and Europe
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Interesting article about Chinese ball bearing production
That meme comes to mind of the fat naked guy typing in the dark—you've probably seen it. The obvious inference is that he's in a chat room with pubescent girls, but it's just as easy to imagine he's typing his bile at machinists/businessmen/imperialist running dogs and their lackeys while...- Oldwrench
- Post #73
- Forum: Manufacturing in America and Europe
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Interesting article about Chinese ball bearing production
Not a bad strategy, making stuff private-label—or simply with no trademark or origin ID at all. When the Japanese were stamping shoe-polish containers, etc, from salvaged beer cans after WW2 it was referred to as "putting their pride in their pocket." Whatever pays the bills. You can be...- Oldwrench
- Post #71
- Forum: Manufacturing in America and Europe
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Interesting article about Chinese ball bearing production
Well, I certainly appreciate the difference that hand selection makes. However, the vast bulk of bearing applications involves large-scale production, and that no longer employs anybody in those 120-year-old buildings. At least not making bearings. Maybe they retrained and are dealing blackjack...- Oldwrench
- Post #70
- Forum: Manufacturing in America and Europe
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Interesting article about Chinese ball bearing production
Any of you guys ever pay attention to all the various tolerance classes and quality levels? Those are long established, internationally recognized, and easy to verify—which is why Chinese bearing factories sell a lot of bearings for things other than commodity products like skateboards or fidget...- Oldwrench
- Post #31
- Forum: Manufacturing in America and Europe
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Xometry going public
Googling Traverse City machine shops turns up two places with an equipment lineup on their websites that seems plausibly consistent with nateacox's claim, but I have to question whether either of those business owners would be posting a bank statement on an internet forum! If he owns the place...- Oldwrench
- Post #63
- Forum: Manufacturing in America and Europe
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mill in a corner
What makes you think Fonda has any claim on our attention? She doesn't, at all...other than to stimulate a reflexive utterance of the word Cunt at any mention of her name—and the wistful thought that before she dies a natural death somebody might put a round between her eyes. -
mill in a corner
What makes you think Fonda has any claim on our attention? She doesn't, at all...other than to stimulate a reflexive utterance of the word Cunt at any mention of her name—and the wistful thought that before she dies a natural death somebody might put a round between her eyes. -
mill in a corner
In the pantheon of treacherous cunts, her place is right there with Tokyo Rose. She should have done time. In generations past she probably would've been shot.