Tim Wescott wrote:

It's always getting cut off and the ends remachined?

(I know nothing of oil drilling)


I think that is a good guess. Just up the road is a shop with a big lathe, the steady is
out side with a pipe rack. They make their living cutting the unique threads used in the
industry.

I don't know much more about the drilling side of things though I was once a night
watchman on a work over rig.

Wes