Jon, My father is an old machine shop teacher and he lives just west of Detroit. There is one auction house that he frequents and he periodically buys some smaller equipment from them.
He told me recently that the number of auctions in Detroit has slowed since most of the defunct machine shops have been closed for some time now. He also told me that many of the machines sold at the auctions now are packaged into containers and shipped to China. Apparently they are being shipped to China and used there. Why ship them back? They are making things there and shipping the things to us! Dave On 12/12/2010 12:59 PM, Jon Elson wrote: > Dave wrote: > >> (Somebody else wrote:) >> >> >>that demand is now in Asia. If I was still young I would move to >> where the capital is. >> >> > There are plenty of aging CNC machines that are good retrofit candidates > still in the US. > And, it would be QUITE ridiculous to send a machine to Asia to retrofit > and then ship > back! So, while a heck of a lot of manufacturing has moved to the east, > this is one > business model that really can't be moved out of the country. (Of > course, the manufacturing > of the retrofit components could be moved offshore, the actual install > of the retrofit > would still be done here.) > > Jon > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Oracle to DB2 Conversion Guide: Learn learn about native support for PL/SQL, > new data types, scalar functions, improved concurrency, built-in packages, > OCI, SQL*Plus, data movement tools, best practices and more. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Oracle to DB2 Conversion Guide: Learn learn about native support for PL/SQL, new data types, scalar functions, improved concurrency, built-in packages, OCI, SQL*Plus, data movement tools, best practices and more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
