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Best way for obtaining new work
If I was hydraulically inclined, tiny and wanted a product line, I would look very seriously at making repair/upgrade parts for the $5000 1 ton chinese mini excavators that seem to be all over the place all of a sudden. They're the 4x6 bandsaw of the earthmoving world. Strictly hobby grade...- Comatose
- Post #19
- Forum: Shop Management and Owner Issues
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Cheap Fiber Lasers - technology durability
I've has a MOPA laser marker with a JPT source for years now. I think I paid $8k to direct import it, but that was years ago when MOPA was the new hotness. The software is clunky, but it works fine. There's not much to break, and all the consumables like the lasers are commodity. But yes, the...- Comatose
- Post #8
- Forum: Fabrication: CNC Laser, Waterjet, Plasma, Welding
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My employee is too slow.
Because being a business owner is only fun when there's work and the customers pay and the machines don't break and the material is good and delivered on time and the work is steady but not piling up. There are plenty of guys who want to do an honest day's work, turn their work brains off after...- Comatose
- Post #85
- Forum: Shop Management and Owner Issues
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US unemployment numbers keep reaching historic lows, is this making it hard to find workers in your shops?
Oh, that is easy. Walmart contracts with Reliable Janitorial Services, LLC. That's a perfectly legal company registered in the state. But the workers are on RJS's payroll, not theirs. When and if someone investigates RJS, they'll find all the workers supplied falsified I9 forms. But RJS is...- Comatose
- Post #149
- Forum: Manufacturing in America and Europe
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US unemployment numbers keep reaching historic lows, is this making it hard to find workers in your shops?
A quick google shows the median wage for japanese AUTO workers is $37 per hour. US auto workers is $28 per hour. Toyota auto workers in the USA is $26. Mexico is $2.70, for what that is worth.- Comatose
- Post #124
- Forum: Manufacturing in America and Europe
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US unemployment numbers keep reaching historic lows, is this making it hard to find workers in your shops?
B Because US workers are cheaper than Japanese workers, and Mexican workers are cheaper than US workers. Ask me a hard question.- Comatose
- Post #122
- Forum: Manufacturing in America and Europe
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US unemployment numbers keep reaching historic lows, is this making it hard to find workers in your shops?
Okay what does said "intervention" look like? Military occupation? Go win some hearts and minds coutesy of depleted uranium donations and airstrikes? Send the FBI against the cartels? Have the CIA sponsor more coups and topple more governments in latin america? It's great to say "go intervene"...- Comatose
- Post #120
- Forum: Manufacturing in America and Europe
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US unemployment numbers keep reaching historic lows, is this making it hard to find workers in your shops?
As long as the world exists, there will be comparatively "affordable labor" somewhere. Enjoy fighting a war when the manufacturing base of the country consists of everyone selling each other insurance. Sure, Lockheed Martin can make twenty jets a year, but it was the car companies and the...- Comatose
- Post #118
- Forum: Manufacturing in America and Europe
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Mamma's don't let yer babies drive forklifts
Hope nobody finds these pictures!- Comatose
- Post #52
- Forum: Material Handling and Rigging
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Are there overseas opportunities for machinists?
If you had more experience, you could leverage your Chinese skills to be a liason between a (owned or contracted) Chinese machine shop and a western company, but they probably won't let you actually turn handles, and they would only want to pay you local wages if they do. If you had some...- Comatose
- Post #3
- Forum: Manufacturing in America and Europe
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Establishing a supply chain for your product + finance/accounting questions.
I think you're in my neck of the woods if you want to stop by some evening and try running a batch on my grinder to see if that's a workflow that works before you splash out the money. Have you run a surface grinder before? I'm out of town at the moment but will be back in a couple weeks. The...- Comatose
- Post #25
- Forum: Shop Management and Owner Issues
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Establishing a supply chain for your product + finance/accounting questions.
OH! You are getting your stock ground to thickness because YOU DON'T HAVE A TOOL CHANGER!!!! Now it all makes sense. Get yourself back to HGR and scare up something that changes tools for you for $5000, and this whole problem goes out the window. I know this, because I started with a knee...- Comatose
- Post #21
- Forum: Shop Management and Owner Issues
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Establishing a supply chain for your product + finance/accounting questions.
For each assembly, you need 120 blanks? So for 200 assemblies a month, you need to process 24000 pieces? If so, stop farting around and just buy a double disc grinder, or a Blanchard grinder at least. A fiber laser that can cut 1/4" steel isn't that expensive either. The labor hours to pick...- Comatose
- Post #15
- Forum: Shop Management and Owner Issues
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Why do they want thousands for a heat shrink tool machine?
Which I did, and then some time later he went on a posting rampage telling everyone who was trying to contribute to the thread how stupid we all are and what a big tough self-reliant Alaskan he is. But when the question is "why do these things cost to much to buy" he's asking a business... -
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Why do they want thousands for a heat shrink tool machine?
In this case? Yes. I've spent the past twenty years designing and manufacturing power control circuitry specifically for heating. I have some patents on the same. I've made about three million heater controllers. I am on one of the standards technical panels at UL. He might be great at rigging...