Show Me the Tungsten
Graff-Pinkert’s used machine tool business has been challenging for the last couple of years. It has always been a cyclical business that takes grit, creativity, and a willingness to pivot when times are grim. We have moved into consulting and matchmaking for machining companies and brokering expensive, sophisticated machines like
A Quiet Ride to the Office
Observations made while driving to work this morning. The roads are less traveled. This is an observation by Lloyd Graff in an Acura, not Robert
That “Thankful to be an American” Thing
I lingered in the tourist bus while everybody else filed into the structure. Then I walked down the steps and began to deliberately strip off
Tornos DECO Swiss Meister, Achim Bauer EP 139
On today’s podcast I spoke to Achim Bauer, one of the most knowledgeable people I know about Tornos DECO CNC Swiss machines. His company, Bauer
Always a Player
It’s the feeling that enables me to fall asleep. The kinesthetic memory of the dimpled leather, the seams spaced across the leather ball, feeling it
109 Years of a Machine Shop EP 138
On today’s podcast we’re telling the life story of F.C. Phillips in Stoughton, Massachusetts, a fourth-generation machining company that lived from 1911 until January of
My Close Call
I wrote a blog recently about an NBA referee, Mark Davis, who seems to love making the close calls. I don’t. I am confronted now