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Many machine shop owners will ask themselves that question as the year 2010 matures. These economic times are about as hard as any this country has seen. While watching the recent State of the Union address I heard the President talk about how I would soon be able to go to my local bank and borrow money to help run my business. Seems like he doesn’t know some of us don’t have much of a business left. Three years ago I could borrow money on my home to educate my children knowing eventually I would find a new machine tool to finance and pay off the loan. Now I have to borrow money on the machine tool to pay for the house. The machine tool is worth more? Not really, but it sure feels like it. If that was not a viable financing tool there was always leasing. By the way, providing leasing for machine shops has been my stock and trade for the last twenty years. I was going broke there so I thought it would be a good idea to vertically integrate and sell machine tools. Now I believe the machine tools sales people who were telling me how lucky I was to be in leasing, it was easier.

While at a recent training seminar about machine tool controls I commented to one of my fellow students that December seemed slower and was surprised that people weren’t taking advantage of the section 179 tax benefits. My new associate laughed a little and reminded me with a grin that if you didn’t make money in 2009 there were no taxes to save. Then it was back to cartesian coordinates, polar coordinates, setting tool offsets and G and M codes. I’m starting to miss my singular career in leasing.

TD Machine Tools is happy to represent Milltronics, an American made machine with over 10,000 installations serving the Machine Tool Industry for 35 years. As a Fadal owner we want you to know that we are here to provide service on your Fadal machines including one of the top spindle repair facilities in Southern California. Milltronics will make every effort to ensure a seamless transition between your current Fadal machine operations and incorporating a new CNC Milltronics Machine at your facility. We have a 30,000 square foot facility in Ontario, California with machines in stock and manufacturers service personnel available.

Milltronics — Booth 2635

SL 10 Turning Center with live tooling Twin Table Machining Center

VM 20 & 22 In line Spindle ML 26/40 Combination lathe

The Emerge VM 1000

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KSI stands for Knowledge, Support, and Integrity. As a family owned company, we pride ourselves in offering the most complete machine tool package to our customers. As you know, that never just involves the machine tool, but also the support, training, and other value adds that are associated with the machine tool purchase.

KSI Swiss provides the highest quality world-class Swiss Style Automatic CNC Lathes that can be offered. KSI Swiss, in partnership with machine tool builder HJM Automation, is the only American owned provider of this type of machine tool. KSI is a family operated company located in Minnesota. You will not find a better value anywhere. The KSI Swiss machines are known for their ‘more’ factor, more mass, more rigidity, more tools, more stroke, more thrust, more gripping force, more included options, more training, more room, etc. We’re constantly striving to improve our products, as well as add new products as demand rises.

KSI Swiss is known for bringing the most machine to the market. More mass, more stroke, more horsepower, more live tools, more standard options, more training, more of what your business needs.

At KSI Swiss, we know that there is more to a successful swiss machining operation than just machine operation and machine functionality. Coming from and end user perspective, we know the value of operator training, local service, and ongoing support.

KSI offers three classes: “KSI Basic Operator Training,” “KSI Intermediate Training,” and “KSI Advanced Training.” KSI School’s goal is to equip our customers in the utilization and optimization of our products, as well as other swiss style lathes. Our goal is total commitment to customer service and satisfaction. These classes are offered to our customers who have purchased SQC, SQX, and SM series machines from KSI at $250 off the class rate. Rates are listed below.

YuTube channel for videos of our machines.

http://www.youtube.com/ksiswiss