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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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My Kitchen Table

I am writing this piece at the kitchen table in my house. It’s where I write most of my blogs. It’s the one place where

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Detroit Has Life

After 50 stunningly disastrous years, Detroit is seeing the spark of revival that comes when things get so bad that only the truly visionary can

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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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