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I once saw that graffitti'd on a restroom wall at a place I worked. But I don't think I'd post Arbeit Macht Frei even ironically.

After the Bataan Death March (not to mention the Rape of Nanking) there wasn't any public resistance to characterizing the Imperial Japanese Army as the vicious, bestial bastards they were. At the...

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We have used Jorgensen (EMJ) as our steel and aluminum supplier for over 40 years and rarely have any defective material issues. However, when they took over a big tubing supplier (Kilsby-Roberts...

It may be OT but the subject is relevant because it has to do with compensation for one's work.

Like others who had a previous life as an artist I am angered by the fact that a Van Gogh can be...

It's not the machine accuracy, it's the process. The cylindricity of the hole is affected by deflection, axial misalignment of the tool shank, taper error of the endmill, or something as small as a...

I just don't get this amazed frustration with the post office. In every meaningful sense it's an agency of the federal government. No business owner in his right mind should be shocked by its...

I'd quit trying to interpolate the bore.

We make a very similar part with about the same proportions, and the mass around the bore is unevenly distributed on top of it. Get a boring head with the...

Before we relocated this shop I actually built balsa-wood and paper scale models of the machines and used 1/4 inch desk-blotter grid as the floor. At the time you could buy plastic models of all...

I can't believe Frank actually took the time to come on here and explain why that clown's order didn't get there when he wanted. He sure doesn't owe any explanations to anybody. Best service and...

Mario, not too many people on here can advise you on bidding machining jobs in Croatia. You would do better to hire a business consultant with some knowledge of local conditions. Such as: what sort...

I concede absolutely that at some point inventory management requires a specialist. I once devoted about three months of meetings, organizing employee buy-in, database organization, etc., in order to...

Anybody wondering, a few years from now, whatever happened to that Practical Machinist website wouldn't need to look beyond this thread or the various parallel examples in the badly misnamed...

In a word, no. A startup owner/machinist is unlikely to have much time to devote to managing his or her inventory because he or she is too busy loading parts. And a successful one would not even have...

This is long overdue. It's only a matter of time until this becomes an accepted condition of doing business.

There's a general principle that shortages and delays (like the covid shutdown) cause a pent-up demand for products, and when the strictures are released consumers go hog wild. In business, timing is...

That sure is a clean and efficient-looking shop.

Or maybe the employee will think, "Gee, somebody apparently thinks I'm worth entertaining."

Research many years ago on the most productivity-enhancing color to paint the walls revealed that productivity went up when the walls were painted and then fell off until they were painted again,...

Oh, this is absolutely the best thread to have ever run across on a Monday!
Our employees are all smart and well-enough read that they appreciate irony. So in acknowledgement of that I favor ironic...

Somewhat ironically, horse dung in the streets was responsible for a shit-ton of ailments (not to mention the general unpleasantness) although that factor wasn't recognized by any political platform...

LMAO, but it wouldn't surprise me.

Last week four of us from work attended a funeral at a local church. Out of about 125 people we were the only ones masked. Of course most of the people were...

But if yours is such a towering intellect, why is my composition and spelling better? Is all that froth causing your fingers to slip on the keyboard?

Your breathless flight of hyperbole does not refute the fact that the Left has historically had to build barriers to prevent the flight of its citizens to the greener pastures of intellectual and...

Okaaay...so the walls separating the aptly named Iron Curtain countries from the free world either (1) didn't exist, or (2) were really built to keep out all those deprived individualists clamoring...