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p.s. one of my honeywell/garrett machinist buddies used to work at TON-O-WONDAH new yerk, doing chevy big blocks from raw. then he got a job at cummins doing their engine blocks. some wayyyyyyy cool stuff there.


biggest MILL in the state of az is at KARSTEN PING GOLF.( lasered pad size of olympic swimming pool. mill trucked in and railed in) there we did the patriot fuel cells out of alum at 10,000 RPMS with helical end mills..

TOP THAT RPM! sounded like a freeking machine gun running. we could not build enuff of them during the gulf war.

one of the MOST profitable parts we ever did was 15-5 surgical steel bone reamers for hip transplants. cost to mfg was like $35 bucks, sold to wholesaler for $75 bucks, then sold to hospital for $250 bucks and then sold to YOU for $500 bucks when ya have yer hip replaced. doc chucks it in black and decker 3/8th drill, reams out bone cavity and then throws it on the floor contaminated never to be used again and dumped in a hazmat land fill.

i dont miss the money/i dont miss the travel/and i sure as hell DONT MISS THE PAPERWERK..................what i do miss is every single day it was making something that DID MATTER how are tolerances were kept. and there is PRIDE in making something from a raw material.


every time any OF YOU walk up to an jet turbine engine(military or commercial) while boarding a plane and see the HOT ROTATING ENGINE BLADES out of iconel 718(machined with whiskas inserts) think of me. we did so many turbine blades my eyes STILL BUG OUT thinking about them. iconel is some nasty azz stuff to mill or lathe(high nickel content samo as a meteorite). but the best part was watching frozen chickens and turkeys launched into turbine engines at speed to simulate a BIRDSTRIKE in the test cells. WHAT A HOOT! somedays they maintained power...............................and somedays ........................well lets say this..................somebodies AZZ WAS ON THE LINE when they FLAMED OUT!