Do you ever wonder how I make a living buying and selling old iron?Sometimes Graff-Pinkert’s used machinery business boggles our own minds too. But we have some tricks of the trade that make it possible for me to pay my mortgage, and on today’s podcast I’m going to share a few of them with you.We’re running an episo...

It’s been a miserable month for electric cars. Tesla fired everybody in its charger department, Ford told us that it is losing $100,000 on every electric vehicle it sells, and Donald Trump announced he will stop the construction of new wind generators off the East Coast because he wants to save the whales.If you bou...

Working in the machining industry I hear the term “lean manufacturing” mentioned a lot. But what does the word “lean” really mean in this context? And how do you implement it in your company? To help me clarify these questions, I interviewed Matthew Rassi, founder of Twenty Helping Hands. He’s a lean manufacturing c...

I’m dealing with a customer right now who seems interested in some CNC machines Graff-Pinkert has for sale. They told me they needed this type of machine ASAP! And these machines are RARE!They even said they had a big job for the machines already and they are on the “verge of pulling the trigger any day now.”But the...

Our guest on today’s show, Howard Sheldon, grew up working in his family’s third generation precision turning company. He planned to eventually take over the business from his father, but unfortunately succession didn’t happen the way he had hoped.Howard left his family company in his mid-30s, and 10 years ago start...

Our guest on the podcast today is Reid Leland, founder and President of LeanWerks, a precision machining job shop in Ogden, Utah. Lean Works operates using open-book management, which means the company shares its financial information with all its employees on a regular basis.Reid says this transparent management st...

My guest on today’s show, Thadd Mellott, called us at Graff-Pinkert because he needed a Star SB20 CNC Swiss machine. His company, Circle M Spring, in Warsaw, Indiana, produces medical parts, including implantable orthopedic components. Circle M Spring is currently merging with a medical component design company that...

I was pumped for IMTS 2022! I went there to listen to the heartbeat of the machining world. I set out to learn about the newest technology, interview people for Swarfcast, and stumble upon as much serendipity as possible.A few things struck me as I strolled the vast McCormick place, gliding my iPhone around on my fa...

Tsugami BS20, Mfd. 2008, CNC Swiss Lathe.With LNS barfeed, Chip conveyor, Coolant blaster, Royal products filter mist.Machine ran oil onlyMainly Stainless or Standard Steel

Tsugami SS32 CNC Swiss Lathe Mfd. 2012 32mm Diameter 6 Axes, (plus 2 C Axes) With Fanuc 32i Controller IEMCA Mini Boss 322-E Bar Feeder Tri-Mist 850 Mist/Dust Collector High Pressure Pump LNS Turbo HB Chip Conveyor