Our dependence on China for our manufacturing is a form of economic warfare. They “make” stuff that is garbage and sell it at a profit loss just so they can wreck our manufacturing base. A nation without a manufacturing base is easier to defeat in war. WW2 was won through manufacturing as have all wars….
A Pressure Gauge… What do you see when you look at something like this? For most folks, it’s just a thing that doesn’t have much meaning. It’s just a thing. For some, it’s an accessory for some piece of steampunk furniture. While for others, it tells a story. Everything can tell us a story if…
My attempt in what I write is usually to share things that I find interesting that will help to establish a vision of what my business is supposed to be about; however, at the moment I am questioning if what I want is even possible anymore. Is our nation so far gone that we cannot…
It’s been a while since I got on my soapbox, so I decided that today is the day that I would pull it out, dust it off, climb up on it. It’s time to run my mouth, well, my fingers at least. Look, just read my words with a deep, booming, manly voice that has…
I though I would share a sea story with you… I was assigned to a brand new vessel and was working with new folks and was still learning their personalities. The chief engineer was a guy that had a good heart and was really a good dude, but probably shouldn’t have been the chief engineer….
I’ve caught a little flak over the couple of years that I’ve been in bidness because of my pricing and I get it. What I build is expensive and it is expensive for a couple of reasons. First and foremost is that I want to buy a M4 Sherman tank and those cost a lot…
Just my thoughts on why it matters… I have always heard that manufacturing was the key to economic growth. I knew that intellectually but didn’t understand it completely until I was traveling home from work one day. I used to be a mariner in the offshore oil fields. I worked as a licensed engineer on…
A long time ago, back in ’93 as I remember it, a sage and gallant man made a profound yet incredibly simple statement that is more relevant to me today than at any other point in my history. I understand his statement far better and on a far deeper level now that I have started…
I worked as a marine engineer in a former life. That means that I worked in the engine room of ships as an operating engineer, 6 years in the US Navy and 11 years on board offshore supply vessels in the oil field of the Gulf of Mexico. I’ve spent the majority of my life…
The first part of a series of parts which make up the whole part of one part. Or something like that… Paths have been used as metaphors for life for a really long time. King Soloman writes in Proverbs 3:6, ” In all your ways acknowledge Him and He will make your paths straight” (NASB),…
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