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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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A Brave New Romance

My search for a romantic life partner is a dramatically different process with different goals than those of my parents and grandparents. Today’s dating world

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It’s Rarely in the Bag

One of the things that has always fascinated me about the used machinery business is the daily assessment of risk and reward in the deals

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It’s Rocket Science

After reading Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance, I understand why many folks are proclaiming that Elon

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Industry Scuttlebutt

The machining world is a conservative one, where change comes slowly. In the screw machine arena change often takes a decade to filter through the

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Basking in Basque Country

In May I had the wonderful opportunity to go on vacation in a small paradise in northern Spain called San Sebastián (Dononstia in Basque). When

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