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The last major technological breakthroughs the Chinese made were the discoveries of Black gunpowder & paper.... about 2000 years ago. Everything else in the modern world was invented in Europe & America... and that's a fact. How many Chinese nobel prize winners can you name?

I find myself agreeing wholeheartedly... I often get asked to cut metal for engineering companies.... widget A takes 30 minutes to cut and costs £4 in machine operating costs.... If you order 20, 200 or 2000 it's still going to take me 30 minutes per part and cost me £4 in machining time. If...

Impressive isn't it.... Take what Alan Turing invented in terms of computers, combine this with the pioneering work the Racal company did inventing mobile telephony.... add a British designed ARM micro chip, pay a British product designer and you have the Iphone.... I take the long view of...

MoonWalks, Obstacle Courses, Slides. Other equipment & accessories available. 222.222.2222 Like Gino I loathe the use of etc., it's so vague as to be virtually meaningless. As to the correct way of expressing "etc." I was always taught that abbreviated words should be followed by a full stop...

Doug, The easiest solution is to buy a selection of Grey sign grade VHB tapes in the standard widths and have your tape supplier punch them into coins. This will give you a selection of self adhesive discs which fit virtually all stroke widths and makes tape application a doddle. Full coverage...

Indeed, one site I worked on had the water company accidentally ripping up a main electricity cable.... a big un the diameter of an elephant's leg. Apparently the BANG when that sucker snapped was quite something.... I saw what was left of the JCB digger and it made my bottom clench. All told...

Most sign buyers won't tell you how much they are prepared to spend because they think they're going to get ripped off... they assume you'll inflate your price to fill whatever budget they reveal. This is the one aspect of this trade I REALLY hate... playing frickin price "peek a boo". If you...

I always measure UP from the absolute bottom of the bodywork... with modern bodywork sloping and swooping all over the show it's the one reliable way to get stuff straight.

My idea of supporting charities is to strong arm all my suppliers into giving me free stuff which I then present to the charity myself, my contribution if you will.... this is my charity gig and you aren't invited.... just give me the free cr@p and get lost Your customers probably like the idea...

The Chinese have got a LOT of Dollars to spend.... Africans have a lot of fertile land and not much money.... I think you can see the way this is going.

I don't know what I need to keep and what is safe to throw away because my customers don't order standarised products made from a stock range of raw materials. My shop is jammed with sheet materials, remnants of stainless steel, pieces of Brass, mountains of perfectly usable Plexiglas in every...

Ask Esmae to provide you with a full financial guarantee BEFORE you start the process of ruining your optics and destroying your laser power supply and tube. My abrasive waterjet accelerates mains tap water to a velocity of Mach 3 and delivers a stream of water >2mm in diameter at a full...

Is it just me or does anyone else find the persistent use of "there" instead of "their" extremely irritating?

Yes, if there are two separate power inputs to the machine you ideally want two 240v supply cables with breakers on each which are EXACTLY matched to the amperage of each of the power inputs on the machine. 220/240v is the standard supply over here so your machine would be connected to mains...

Or.... You'll be installing European style sign products and using the Euro... in the face of an economic tidal wave from the east the west may well circle the wagons and become the single economic block it probably needs to be... who knows, at some stage there might even be the United States...

LOL.... I go that extra 25% and demand FULL payment before I even start work... I make sign stuff.. I'm not a money lender. I don't want to fund your working capital or cashflow issues using my money. My suppliers love me because I refuse point blank to open a credit account... you've got my...

Let me guess.... the kind of person who supplies you with files and drawings which they insist you make "their" way using the materials they've decided are the most suitable.... you can't argue because you're an idiot without the expertise they have.... Then, when you're stood next to a wonky...

Piston compressors are LOUD and are normally linked to fairly small capacity receiver tanks... this means the compressor motor is forever kicking in to maintain working pressure. This constant loud noise really does become irritating very quickly. A really nice way to build a compressed air...

I haven't tried mild steel but I'm betting that the blades wouldn't last long on the typical 40 or 50mm, thick walled mild steel box we mainly use... perhaps 10- 15 cuts before the blade goes blunt as a butter knife. Thin wall stainless 40x 20mm box managed 6 cuts before the blade went pear...

Just don't try to cut stainless steel box or tube on your Rage 3.... the blades last about 3 minutes.