Cheese
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Michael Kellough said:How many of those little $6 bits to the pound?
Thanks for the tooling lesson!
Probably a couple of hundred...but compare 1# of anything in 1950's dollars to the same pound of anything in 2020 dollars and you'll probably go blind...or wish you would have purchased the futures. [smile]
I've always been surprised at how slowly the non-industrial groups move forward and it seems like forever for them to fully embrace new ideas...I've never understood the recalcitrance on their part. If it's better and a bit more expensive then embrace it...if it's better and somewhat more expensive then embrace it...if it's better and really more expensive, then understand the technology, reduce the cost and then embrace it.
I've never considered myself to be a history buff but if we don't learn from the past...we're doomed to repeat our failures of the past, and that's depressing.
The Carboloy material was actually invented in Germany and arm wrestled to a standoff in the US by GE during the 30's. It's an interesting story and has a lot of intrigue including a federal court case. Hey...that's what we're good at. [smile]