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...

  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...

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...

  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...

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

  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...

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...

  Our Facebook page recently displayed some great vintage photos of the old Mesta Machine shop. Back when American firms built the biggest ...

We were delighted to get a blog comment that did not involve cut-rate sunglasses! To wit: “How would you promote gear/transmission technology...

Can you remember the first time you saw a gear? I remember seeing gears on a cousin’s erector set crane when I was six or seven. A friend got a slo...