[time-nuts] time-nuts Digest, Vol 89, Issue 51

[Chris Albertson]

On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 9:42 AM, Chris Albertson
<albertson.chris at gmail.com> wrote:

> Can you point one even ONE machine shop in the US that can make metric
> parts?  Those guys would have gone out of business years ago.   Also
> how many are still using hand cranks and reading veneer scales?   Even
> small one man ships are using CNC now.

Obvious typo:  Should read "that can NOT make metric parts?"    The
inability to make "hard" metric parts means you can NOT sell to many
industries and the export market is also mostly closed to you.

Chris Albertson
Redondo Beach, California