[HeyLaughingBoy]

I've never moonlighted, but I agree about the approachability.

Some time ago I lived in an industrial city with lots of small machine shops and especially lots of Screw Machine shops. I found that they really appreciated that I was interested in what they did and were willing to show me around.

Fast forward to about a year or two ago and I had to call on a prospective customer with a sales person. I didn't know until I got there that they were a branch of a well known workholding manufacturer and our contact offered to give me a tour of their machine shop. Pure heaven: I've never seen such a collection of modern, massive machine tools. The toolchanger alone on one of these machines was bigger than most VMC's I had ever seen. Their pallets were multiple feet long (not even sure if you call them pallets at that point) and ran on external tracks from machine to machine. Easily the biggest lights-out shop I've ever seen.

That was by far the most fun part of the sales call :-)