How a Screw Machine Won World War II - Fascinating Facts about Precision Machining with Noah Graff

<p><strong>Connect with Noah Graff:</strong></p><p><strong>LinkedIn: </strong>https://www.linkedin.com/in/noah-graff-b7169a1/</p><p><strong>Website: </strong>https://todaysmachiningworld.com</p><p><strong>Podcast: </strong>https://todaysmachiningworld.com/swarfcast/</p><p>Hey, it's Lisa Ryan. Welcome to the Manufacturer's Network podcast. I'm excited to introduce our guest today, Noah Graff. Noah is the host of SwarfCast, a podcast that helps professionals in precision machining excel in their careers. For more than ten years, he's been a used machine tool dealer, or treasure hunter, as he likes to call it, buying and selling used equipment worldwide.</p><p>He's also a blogger and editor for the website, Today's Machining World, directed at the Precision Machining Community. So, Noah, welcome to the show.</p><p><strong>Noah Graff:&nbsp;</strong>Oh, thank you. It's fun to be interviewed rather than always doing the interviewing.</p><p><strong>Lisa Ryan:&nbsp;</strong>So, share a little about your background and what led you to do what you're doing.</p><p><strong>Noah Graff:&nbsp;</strong>One way you could put it would be nepotism. My grandfather, Leonard Graff, started Graff-Pinker, our used machine tool business, about 80 years ago. My father and my uncle went into the business. In school, I was a film and history major. My dad had started this blog. It was a print magazine called, Today's Machining World. Because he had a journalism masters in college, it had always been his dream. So he started this magazine about the precision machining industry, which is what we specialize in.</p><p>This was 2005, and he was trying to lure me in. He said, look, broadband is coming. We'll do video interviews, and he was right. He was about five years too early. But I went there and started working with the magazine, editing, writing, and then about 2011 or 12. Print was dying, so we decided we'd take the magazine online, and I would join the treasure-hunting business. We continued to blog, and then about four and a half, five