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Innovating New Attachments for Screw Machines, with Elliott May—EP 143

In honor of this weekend’s PMPA National Technical Conference, we’re resharing a podcast we did last year with Elliott May, engineer at BME in Port Huron, Michigan. BME builds original custom attachments for cam multi-spindles. They also rebuild Acme-Gridley screw machines. Elliott and I talked about a lot of fascinating

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My Chicago

I got an email from an old friend in Florida, Bob Ducanis, asking me to write a column explaining what is going on in my

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Kids in the Workplace

In Chicago this week the big story (even bigger than the Illinois primaries) has been the retirement of Adam LaRoche, a designated hitter, first baseman

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Inventory Free

Usually I live my business life talking to people who are extremely skilled at cutting bars of metal into a lot of useful widgets and

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My Cousin Donnie

I once had a cousin named Don. Don was a couple months older than me. We played softball together and a lot of ping pong.

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Trump Gets It

I must admit I am totally into the 2016 election. The ascent of Donald Trump is so stunning, so horrifying, but also so wonderfully amazing

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