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Charles D. Schultz

Chuck Schultz is a licensed engineer, Gear Technology Technical Editor, and Chief Engineer for Beyta Gear Service. He has written the "Gear Talk with Chuck" blog for Gear Technology since 2014.

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What if God Were One of Us in Sozhou China?

September 6, 2016

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The familiar words of Joan Osborne’s “What if God Were One of Us?” wafted out of the lounge when we returned from a long day of touring s...

Contingency Planning

September 1, 2016

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I got caught up in a messy but foreseeable travel delay coming home from my first trip to China. Foreseeable because airplanes are machines and mac...

Hear it First at FTM 2016

August 30, 2016

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Gear Technology has a long history of publishing and archiving important technical papers from the American Gear Manufacturers’ Associatio...

Gear Toys

August 25, 2016

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My recent blog on educating kids on gears coincided with a birthday party invitation for a great nephew. Not having grandchildren of our own — I da...

Time for the Clan to Gather

August 23, 2016

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Has your e-mail inbox been full lately? It is a sure sign that the International Machine Tool Show (IMTS) is rapidly approaching. This ye...

Sarcasm Font Needed?

August 18, 2016

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The metaphor post got me thinking of just how much miscommunication occurs because people do not speak or write directly to the point. Aside from t...

Speaking in Metaphors

August 16, 2016

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As one of our trade’s more accessible “experts,” I am happy to field questions from the general public, too. This week one of the more un...

Reboots

August 11, 2016

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A commercial touting the reboot of MacGyver just appeared on my office TV screen and I recall with fondness its tales of improvi...

Personal Milestone

August 9, 2016

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Today begins my ninth year as a consulting engineer! It shocks me that I have now worked for myself longer than as an employee at any oth...

Unknown Geniuses

August 4, 2016

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Following up on my last blog concerning the now-defunct giants of mill building…the geniuses who designed those machines never got the individual a...

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