Modern Machine Shop article about my shop

[chris m]

Wow; we're famous....NOT

 

Capto at Harmonic Drive

[Guest]

I saw that last month.

[Storkman]

Cool, Chris teh movie stardom is next.

[Tim Johnson]

Terry,

Wasn't your company published recently also?

[P_Scott]

chris m,

 

Cudos to your company. Guess you were too busy to speak with the guy writing the article? J/K Chris. I also noted they didn't mention Fred either. Was everyone else in a meeting when he was interviewing Steve? Seriously though, it's a great article.

[Storkman]

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Terry,

Wasn't your company published recently also?

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Could be Tim, but I never heard about it. Maybe that was the day they told me to leave for a few hours.

[crazy^millman]

Funny thing how they make it sound like Mr. Foley does everything at your guys shop.

[chris m]

You noticed that, huh? I thought they went pretty heavy on that but we didn't write it...

 

I think we might have one in American Machinist pretty soon, too; Hollywood here we come

[J Coulston]

Where do you keep the monkeys?

[Steve Zirtzman]

Chris,

How does a company get chosen for an article?

[P_Scott]

Steve Z.,

 

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How does a company get chosen for an article?

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One of the execs of said company autographs a short, wide, green (sometimes blue) slip of paper with a bunch of numbers written on it to further the publishing efforts of said magazine. Honestly though, Harmonic Drive does some pretty amazing $#!T. "OD turned to 0.01 inch wall thickness." On a daily basis.

 

Crazy^Millman,

 

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Funny thing how they make it sound like Mr. Foley does everything at your guys shop.

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That's because Chris spends too much time in production meetings and on this forum to be around when magazines come knockin'.

[chris m]

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How does a company get chosen for an article?

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This particular article was set up through Sandvik. We had an issue awhile back with some vibration problems on our LT15M using a custom-designed Capto clamping unit [the only problem we've had with Capto, other than the fact that its expensive] that resulted in the Capto 'division' manager [i think he's a Sandvik VP] and their Engineering Manager for the Capto product coming to my shop to do an analysis and some redesign work. When they were here they saw some unconventional uses of their product and asked if we'd be amenable to an article about it. After some back-and-forth about it the article was done and I think will run in their 'Metalworking News' or whatever as well as MMS.

 

The article that, I think, will be in American Machinist is being done by Okuma and The Robert E. Morris Company because we are an Okuma showroom and love to run off at the mouth about how Okumas are the cats a$$...

 

.010 wall is actually pretty normal for us; .004 on the little stuff

 

C

[Nick_AFRL]

pretty cool chris..... can i have your autograph?

[chris m]

SURE!!

 

 

[Jeff the haas_guy]

Chris is giving the fickle finger of fate award.

[Chris Rizzo]

Last discussion here I recall of a company being highlighted in a trade magazine resulted in every tool, machine, and accessory salesman within a 500 mile radius banging down their door.

 

[CAM-mando]

Good stuff chris.

 

We wre in EDM Today last year and Job Shop Technology this year.

 

For 2 months after the EDM Today article I was getting calls from EDM wire and supplies sales people. I never know that many different companies existed.

 

We got real nice quality color pdf's of the articles amd had 500 printed up. They make nice brochure stuffs for sales.

[Andy]

Does that finger have a .004 wall?