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I don’t think is a true idea of the dealers. The post represents a small part of their sales.
A good post is the lifeblood of any business why I learned years ago how to make the changes i needed to what I needed. I shifted into contract programming full time 8 years ago verses on the slide like I have done since 1995 I got away from doing as much with posts. I leave the heavy lifting up to the professionals. I do a lot of support for companies just getting their posts with technical implementation methods and processes. Examples being CDS, options and types of methods they need to support helping them understand best practices with posts and the such. I do my best work focusing on what I am good at and they are the experts so I trust them and allow them do it.
A few years ago my 'ol chap (Carpenter) walked into the shop and asked why I looked stressed and "what exactly are you doing"?
So I started to quickly walk him through the process of grammin a part and he was tutting and sighing and getting more impatient - I was about 2 minutes into it.
He interrupted and said "well surely in this day and age, all you have to do is photograph the drawing and the machine should be able to do it for you huh"?
My reply was "Dad, go put the kettle on"
Colin - nice explanation, and kudos to the Summers. It truly shows how cutting edge (no pun intended) they were back then.
My sales guy always asks why we don't just hold the part/ print up to the monitor and hit CTRL-P and have the machine make it. Now THAT would be progress...
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