Steve Ross

@gak_pdx Hilltop pink is well known, it is unmistakably their machine. The “custom” Brother paint jobs I’ve seen have been de-badged machine in off white or very light grey, certainly not fun like pink or teal.

I've yet to see anyone order a Speedio with the custom paint option in these United States. Everyone talks about "software" running the factory floor... no, it is the vibe from seeing a floor of machines in *your* color. Makita knows this; the many hundreds of Brothers in the Makita fleet are all Makita teal.

@gak_pdx @photoncmndr This is absolutely the correct answer.

@photoncmndr How big, exactly? What kind of material? What is the application? This world gets complicated quickly- most of these giant machines are built around very specific industry needs.

Who has the best gantry mills? Large hulking machines for large parts? HAAS doesn't so I'll have to go elsewhere...

@KyleMalzhan @BrewPack8 El Caballo

@BrewPack8 That Carlos Lee jersey tho… ball knower.

Brewers pop up sale haul at St Vinny’s yesterday Go Brewers

@gak_pdx 😂 that’s absolutely true!

Hahha, No Chamath - while manufacturing loves forcing everyone to write documentation, nobody really pays attention to any of it and just asks Steve 90% of the time.

@ArmenSaryan @czabe Not playing when he is not 100% is best for him too.

@czabe Why would he want that, he's not going to sacrifice his right to play for an organization's interests that wants to trade him. Especially since it's a whole new leadership.

Well… to shut it down for this lost season. Be clean and healthy so they can ship him where he wants for the most return this summer. That’s it. That’s the ask.

@ArmenSaryan @ThunderMKE @frogstyle_2 In the Big 920 days, when I had more car time and listened for hours daily

@frogstyle_2 Thanks, had him on a show with @ThunderMKE years ago and it was a true treat. What a great pro he was.

Starting lineups for the Bucks and Bulls at the Bradley Center in November 13, 1992. The legendary voice Jack Gallo on public address.

Dr Mori at the DMG Mori annual meeting said hip/knee implants are a growth market because Americans are so fat. Based

@BrouilletteJade @ArmenSaryan He is now the Brewers 5th highest paid player on the 26 roster

@ross400imh @ArmenSaryan Id argue it's really low risk, $6.25aav, meaning he really only has to be a 1 war/yr player to have positive value

Do people realize how good of a signing this Cooper Pratt deal is

@harrydoyle_ @ArmenSaryan 50 million guaranteed. That’s a big number for this club

@ArmenSaryan Duke got to feel like Wisconsin in 2015, when every call went against them in the second half

Who is the bigger NCAA villain

@ArmenSaryan Crazy game

Is Duke really gonna blow this!!!

@tonydindy @_Jess_Peters_ Armstrong world class driver and guitar hero player

@_Jess_Peters_ He needed Armstrong and got it !

Without going to an autograph session, a kid got all but one of the 25 #IndyCar drivers to sign his hat over the last two days. (He may have got them all by the end of driver intros, but I couldn’t stick around to find out) Again, this series is among the best for fan access.

@stevemagness Sad but when you millions in front people will do things that aren’t ethical. MLB need to set a minimum age to sign international players

Remember the story of a 13 year old signing a 1.3 million dollar deal with the Philadelphia Phillies? They just cancelled it because the kid tested positive for steroids. Insane. Reports say other kids as young as 11 have tested positive. That should be considered child abuse.

@aManAboutFilm Agree!!!

Good. Can't believe I'm here rooting for a 2 over an 11, but now I don't have to hear CBS and ESPN try to sell me on the scrappy underdog Cinderella that is ... Texas.

@devexpert @gak_pdx Blaser also has some very solid options.

@gak_pdx What’s the coolant you like in Brothers?

Never use fully synthetic coolant. For the love of the machining gods, I’ve seen 4 month old machines that look like a decade of hard service because: synthetic coolant. Don’t know why anyone even bothers selling it. Synthetic has two big drawbacks: 1- It strips lubricant off of everything in the machine. Every seal goes dry, every greased area gets washed out, every mechanism goes crusty. Your tool setter gets rickety, your way wipers crack. 2- it deposits this tacky talc on everything. This eats paint, and generally makes everything in the machine suck to work on. Your workholding needs constant cleaning, your ball screws and linear guides need extra PMs. On those 4 month old machines, we had a complete spindle failure… what happened? They used through spindle coolant, and that tacky film built up in the Deublin rotary union’s carbide:carbide seal. This seal actually seals under pressure, and opens a bit when under no pressure (the fluid acts to keep it cool, so when the spindle runs without coolant, this design keeps it from burning up at 20k RPM). Remaining synthetic coolant dried across these faces, and prevented them from closing fully- every time the TSC was turned on, a tiny dribble of coolant leaked from the union. This worked down the shaft, infiltrated the spindle when the machine was powered down (Brother uses positive pressure on the spindle casting to prevent contamination). Well under 2 oz of this synthetic coolant washed all the Kluber grease from the upper spindle bearing, leading to spindle death with <100 hours of production. Sad! Synthetic coolant is the devil! (And I had to personally deny the warranty claim, and that sucked. We warned them about the evils of synthetic coolant at install, they fully understood the issues and the warranty does not cover damage caused by full synthetic coolant. Even warned them *this* can happen… but their FDA facility documentation and cleaning process was based on this coolant, selected 12+ years ago. They had no choice.)

@gak_pdx @Precision_Ghost

@Precision_Ghost Meh, something like that… I don’t even know what my real job title is anymore.

@tonydindy @DreyerReinbold That’s a big get

Formerly of Penske & Prema, engineer Eric Leichtle will be with @DreyerReinbold for the month of May and the #Indy500. He will be on loan from SpaceX. He spent last May with Prema. #Indy500

@ArmenSaryan Underwood and McCollum 15 and 16 no way

i'll tell you one thing Matt Painter isn't EIGHTH on this list

@ArmenSaryan @WiscoGrant I agree with Armen my family was an early adopter to cutting the cord, but the pendulum has swung back it’s cheaper to have cable than all the different packages to watch what we want.

@WiscoGrant I think the people are going back to cable

everyone losing their mind over the channel numbers for the Brewers and I remain so confused by those of you who own a remote with numbers in the year 2026