So, when I talk about dying Boomer Machine Shops? This is them. Pan around and not a single capital asset is under 2 decades old. Couple of manual mills, a really old Brother TC22, a Mori Dura Verical. Shop is immaculate, that part being shown off is super clean… But it is also a part that would have been a real talent show 20 years ago- probably 2-3 days of fussy setups and dial-in. Now? Fire that off to SCS and Phil’s programmer will spend 20 minutes tweaking the templates before he sends it off to the Brother U500 fleet’s auto cue and moves on. No mess. No fuss. No heroics. The technology moved on and this shop didn’t. Many such cases - you get that vendor contract from Raytheon or Lockheed, you struggle to figure it out at first, then you coast for the next 15 years and the process/machines/your skills stay static. When you go to retire, the shop isn’t worth bupkis - Raytheon will re-quote to a modern shop that can onboard this easily because they are all 5 axis and won’t struggle, any “buyer” of the company will get hosed when he bought $35k in auction value equipment for $600k. And not to pile on this guy, but I’m also willing to bet $5 he couldn’t find anyone to work for him. Anyone off the street would not have found 110% of CA McDonald’s wages all that appealing. Anyone with experience and talent in this industry is not going to want to have a boss for the privilege of babysitting old ass equipment that they could go by themselves off Craigslist.