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
A Brave New Romance
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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
Is Your Best, Your Best?
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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
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
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