{"id":3383,"date":"2017-09-18T14:33:33","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T19:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thmsblog.com\/?p=3383"},"modified":"2021-10-19T13:06:07","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T18:06:07","slug":"taig-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/?p=3383","title":{"rendered":"Taig Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>If you are a regular reader of this blog, you know I have an e-Commerce website where I sell Taig Tools. The URL is http:\/\/ramblindan.com<\/a>  Known as \u201cRamblin\u2019 Dan\u2019s Store\u201d a.k.a. \u201cThe Hobbyist Machine Store\u201d.<\/p>\n

It should be obvious it is a spin off from here, The Hobbyist\u2019s Machine Shop.<\/p>\n

I quietly sell Taig equipment and parts, without much promotion. It was never intended to be a major source of income. Until a few years ago, I had a very stable \u201creal\u201d Energy Engineer occupation managing very large energy solutions (energy savings) construction projects.<\/p>\n

I am now retired with more time. With one product line, the store probably never will be a large money maker. I enjoy running the business part time and selling a good product that I like to use myself.<\/p>\n

So, sales are usually sporadic and don\u2019t require a lot of my time to fulfill. However, in the last few weeks the top has blown off the slow simmering pot. I don\u2019t know (yet) what has turned up the fire, but it is a very good sign. I hope it is an indication that people are getting back to making things in their workshops.<\/p>\n

One reason may be that the Taig CNC Mill and a CNC lathe are now available with ball screws. I have just filled two orders for them.<\/p>\n

I use my newest Taig CNC mill for wax carving for cast silver work. It gets a lot of run-time. I don\u2019t have the ball screw mill in my own shop, but it has been a thought\u2026 The problem is I don\u2019t really NEED ball screws for what I do.<\/p>\n

What I am seeing is my customers are buying lathes and mills, and a lot of accessories, so there must be a new surge in metal working. I have my original mill dedicated to metal work only and equipped with mist cooling. Owning two mills keeps the metal swarf away from my wax work.<\/p>\n

I have also been doing a lot of 3D printing, but the stuff I make in plastic is not near the quality and strength what can be made on machine tools. Real men and women use machine tools. Ha!<\/p>\n

I am excited to see and hope that machining has not been replaced by plastic printing. It\u2019s good for my Taig business and therefore good for the USA!  😊<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you are a regular reader of this blog, you know I have an e-Commerce website where I sell Taig Tools. The URL is http:\/\/ramblindan.com  Known as \u201cRamblin\u2019 Dan\u2019s Store\u201d a.k.a. \u201cThe Hobbyist Machine Store\u201d. It should be obvious it is a spin off from here, The Hobbyist\u2019s Machine Shop. I quietly sell Taig equipment […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77778,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[146,147,140],"class_list":["post-3383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-observation","category-thmstore","tag-machine-tools","tag-sales","tag-taig"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/77778"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3383"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3800,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3383\/revisions\/3800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}