Starting Your Shop Again... What Would You Do Differently? | Machine Shop Talk Ep. 76

A question was posed to machine shop owners – if you could do it all again knowing what you know now, what would you do differently?

On this episode of MACHINE SHOP TALK, Ian Sandusky from Lakewood Machine & Tool is diving back into the Practical Machinist forums to go through some of the very interesting answers that this question provided.
From buying as much space as possible when starting out to not making that partnership agreement to being looser with budgets in the beginning – there are many things that with hindsight, may have seemed like a better route.

Read the forum thread here: https://www.practicalmachinist.com/fo...

If you had to start your shop again with your current knowledge, what would YOU have done differently? Let us know in the comments below!

Chapters
0:00 Introduction
2:30 Buying/renting a larger space
8:53 Partner selection
13:04 Business assessment timing
15:23 Looser approach to spending

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