Grumble and I had been in contact and having mutual technical working backgrounds and experience, discussed topics of insight and interest. We have some pics for the FEW people left that actually are involved with producing the tangible items used in our existence. The others among us may find this quite boring. We beg your forgivness.

After we dumped the car at the plane-port ( ), the logistics let us visit the company of a personal friend involved with some rather hi-tech processing of cutting tool coatings. It is owned by a Russian-Hungarian doctor of physics I became aquatinted with years back while involved with a research and development program at a local university and have been doing consulting work for since the founding of his company 10 years ago. All of his staff are Russian immigrants and perhaps the most intelligent and best educated group of a small hands-on organization I know.

Here is a pic of Grumble watching the charging of a plasma field used for standard Titanium Nitride coating. The company is doing some interesting development of ion beam implantation as time and cash flow permits.

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