The Business Views » screw machines http://www.thebusinessviews.com Our views on business Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:13:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Daily Use and the Wonder of How It’s All Made http://www.thebusinessviews.com/machinery-equipment/daily-use-and-the-wonder-of-how-its-all-made/ http://www.thebusinessviews.com/machinery-equipment/daily-use-and-the-wonder-of-how-its-all-made/#comments Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:41:17 +0000 BViews http://www.thebusinessviews.com/?p=23 Randy wanted to know how all these things were made. Not how they were put together. Rounded parts were hard to make and you couldn’t just cut all around and just hope they would turn out right. While Randy was a professional acrobat and didn’t have time for screw machine training, the concept of wood and metal turning still interested him. After all, even the long railings that he often flung himself from were made by a large screw machine. These lathes were needed to make the material smooth enough so that he could flip, land, and twist on them without tearing apart his hands and arms.

The posts and a variety of other turned parts that Randy encountered during his daily routine were designed and shipped way before he arrived in Orlando. They were in part an exchange between a dance training company in Halifax and the acrobatic teaching school’s advertiser’s shop expert. Not to be outdone, the principal of the acrobatic teaching school himself had once operated a lathe to make his own keys. Randy, though, he never needed to be able to run one of these, was glad to be back on the uneven bars once again.

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