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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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High Cost of Cheap Gas

Are you happy about the price of gas falling below $2 per gallon? You probably should not be. You should feel angry and scared, unless

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Girl Scout Camp

On Thanksgiving our family goes around the table and each one of us tells what we’re happy about and thankful for in our lives. What’s

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We’ll Always Have Paris

Donald Trump’s brand is his outrageousness, but mixed in with his narcissism and insults are some occasionally thought provoking statements. After the Paris attacks he

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Toehold on Business

Scott Livingston is an entrepreneurial, extremely energetic guy who has spent his life in the machining world. He also knows when to hold ‘em and

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A German Holiday

I spent last weekend in Berlin, Germany, for a little vacation after a business trip in Europe. When I told my dad I was going

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