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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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Barber School

Sometimes you can learn a lot from getting a haircut. I’ve been going to the same barbershop for 20 years.  My needs are simple.  Same

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Football Breather

I needed a football weekend badly.  It had been a week of business travel, end-of-the-month tension, end-of-the-year push, and what I really wanted was to

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