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Attached to Multi-Spindles, with Elliott May—EP. 143

Our guest on today’s podcast is 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 things in this interview. How to keep old mechanical beasts relevant, getting

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Every Breath I Take

My daughter Sarah’s goal for Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year holiday, was to make her congregants think about how they want to live their

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Sweet 16

Today I am celebrating the 16th anniversary of Today’s Machining World. I have learned a lot about the writing business and myself by doing this

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Wear Your Seatbelt

A few months ago I was at the Bucktown Art Fair in Chicago where I met an artist/entrepreneur from Tennessee named Clay Bush. Bush uses

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Is America Great Now?

I lean left politically and come from a family of Democrats, but most of my extended family are conservatives. I grew up with my father’s

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Selling Out

I have been studying the process of buying and selling machining businesses for the past year. Companies have approached me to advise them on what

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