I also agree, but we have deindustrialized our economy. Our labor is simply too expensive to be competitive with the Chinese. What
you do still see is CNC everywhere there is machining. The manual model shops and short run ma & pa operations are long gone. They
only exist with the hobbiest and we are dying out as well. Just look at this NG. What do we have, 2 dozen regulars left? If you
survey those, I'll bet there are not many below the age of 60. I'll be 66 this Wed.
Steve

"Pete C." wrote in message ster.com...

Ignoramus15939 wrote:

On 2010-07-12, Gunner Asch wrote:
Ive been browsing Ebay...Ive been looking for a 12" Cadillac height
gage...and of the 300+ items for sale...there are about (7) bidders.
And those are bidding on the .99c items

We are not doing very well in manufacturing...are we?

I checked ebay and do not see any .99 cent Cadillac height gages.

I see one $49 gage with bids.

http://shop.ebay.com/i.html?_nkw=cad...e&_fln=1&_ipg=

I think that they do not sell, because they are obsolete.

I would tend to agree, I think auto tool length measurement has probably
replaced most all manual tool length measurement and data entry. Even
many HSM folks are using auto tool length measurement / touch off, and
most HSMs don't have ATCs yet.