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<blockquote data-quote="Shadowrider" data-source="post: 3907129" data-attributes="member: 3099">Yep. You need at least several days to take it in. It&#039;s best to have an agenda for yourself all laid out before you show up. And if it&#039;s still like it was when I went, every hot woman on the face of the earth is at that show. I&#039;m pretty sure they fly them in. They were everywhere you looked! Getting invited and showing up at some of the bigger machinery distributors hotel suites is quite the experience. Drinks, caviar, all manner of eats, and hoochies abound.I&#039;m not real sure how much processes have improved over 20 years though. I&#039;m sure some areas have but I follow a couple of machining groups on FB with American Machinist being one of them. I see videos explaining and demo&#039;ing canned cycles for CNC (threading and such) and I don&#039;t see anything different at all really. They are basically identical to what I started out with in the &#039;80s. I think these may go to how much manufacturing we&#039;ve lost in this country, but they are portrayed as state of the art. When I see these I&#039;m disappointed because I thought I&#039;d see something cool and new.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Shadowrider, post: 3907129, member: 3099"] Yep. You need at least several days to take it in. It's best to have an agenda for yourself all laid out before you show up. And if it's still like it was when I went, every hot woman on the face of the earth is at that show. I'm pretty sure they fly them in. They were everywhere you looked! Getting invited and showing up at some of the bigger machinery distributors hotel suites is quite the experience. Drinks, caviar, all manner of eats, and hoochies abound. I'm not real sure how much processes have improved over 20 years though. I'm sure some areas have but I follow a couple of machining groups on FB with American Machinist being one of them. I see videos explaining and demo'ing canned cycles for CNC (threading and such) and I don't see anything different at all really. They are basically identical to what I started out with in the '80s. I think these may go to how much manufacturing we've lost in this country, but they are portrayed as state of the art. When I see these I'm disappointed because I thought I'd see something cool and new. [/QUOTE]

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