The bane of postmen everywhere, @sendcutsend's @jimbelosic unpacks how they've bootstrapped one of the most modern job shops in the country. And how they're buying every CNC machine they can get their hands on.
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Tool, Or Die
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Tool, Or Die
@toolordiex
Champions of American manufacturing. Reindustrialize, reshore or retire.
Allentown
Joined January 2025
- When SendCutSend's @jimbelosic challenged American engineers to make a Made In America toaster, Peter Holderith (@_baldtires) fired up CAD and started dimpling. We talk The Toaster, his hybrid kit car (brilliant), and "soft tooling." Full episode below.
- Without a doubt the most exciting thing I've heard in years. Niron Magnetics has cracked the process of making magnets with ZERO RARE EARTHS. Massive implications for electronics, motors, and the global trade order. IN PRODUCTION IN MINNESOTA Full interview below.
00:00 - Couldn't budget a ticket to Reindustrialize but I'll be in Detroit that week so please reach out if you'll be in town! I know where the beer is...
- The pedal is DOWN. We have over a dozen podcasts in the can in the last two weeks and are going to get them online ASAP. But we're going that fast so we can make time for upcoming factory tours and bigger vids. If you like what we're doing please tell you pals, ask your company
- Gabe Elias won seven F1 championships with Mercedes. Now he's home in the States building Material, a 3D-printed battery startup whose batteries act like liquid to make cars and electronics almost completely solid. American manufacturing can lead.
00:00 - That "American manufacturers are babies" video kept bugging @CalebChamberla6 too so we had him on the show to try to figure out some fixes. V. enjoyable with a "focus" on software, customer expectations, limitations of old guard shops—but lots we didn't cover like policy.
00:00 - Nothing pumps me up like talking to another person trying to get an essential factory online in the U.S.
- 🎙️ Ted Feldmann (@tfeldmann), founder of Durin, joins Tool or Die to discuss how his startup is tackling one of the most overlooked but vital problems in American reindustrialization: the lack of modern drilling rigs for mineral exploration. Ted explains why the U.S. is decades
00:00 - Replying to @toolordiex
00:00 - Finally we talk Goldratt's THE GOAL, the book @67Designs' Gavin Stener calls one of the two most important books for manufacturing. Plus: ERP MADNESS and how not to be a sociopath. Fun one. Also @zanehengsperger you got a shout.
00:00 - Replying to @jimbelosicsmashing a whole fortune cookie into my mouth and immediately filling my mouth with metal shavings
