When nurturing and maintaining a successful business, stainless steel tube manufacturers, like any manufacturer, have two separate but essential features to consider: the factory workers and the Continue reading
A stainless steel tube is, in many ways, a staple of modern society. This significance could be explained in two parts; the first of which would address the characteristics of stainless steel— the metal alloy we all know and love— while the second part would address the common hollow cylindrical form we call a tube. Both things are, in their own, separate rights, extremely important to Continue reading
I write this as I think about a recent, relatively minor, though none the less upsetting occurrence that happened this weekend, involving my mother and, to an unsurpirsing extent, stainless steel hypodermic tubing. During her usual Sunday morning walk, my mother slipped on a patch of ice and Continue reading
Stainless Steel Tubing image courtesy of Penn Stainless Products.
Today I have to go to the dentist. I hate going to the dentist. I dread going to the dentist. Just thinking about going to the dentist puts me in a black mood, rich with anxiety, fear and foreboding. Like most people, going to any sort of dental or medical office is not a particularly fun experience— nobody likes being the patient (not considering the few weirdos who do)— having to withstand being poked and prodded, lectured to about what you should and shouldn’t eat, scolded for not taking care of yourself and told matter-of-factly what is wrong with you and Continue reading
304 Stainless Steel Tubing image courtesy of Vita Needle Co.
Variety is the spice of life, as they say, and boy is there a lot of it. From brassieres, personalities and iphone apps to lubes, tubes and metals, variety is all around us. In order to understand and distinguish between different varieties, it is necessary to Continue reading
Hypodermic Needles image courtesy of Metalmen Sales.
Being a child of a couple hippies who have certain cynical, suspicious and sometimes paranoid opinions of conventional modern medicine, I did not go to the doctor or hospital very often when growing up, my parents preferring a “wait and see” line of thinking when an illness or injury occurred. Luckily, Continue reading
Stainless Steel Pipe Fittings image courtesy of Eagle Stainless Steel & Fabrication, Inc.
Our lives are made up of a bunch of different, connecting parts; ideally these parts create a workable system in which people and things can successfully perform what is expected of them. Sometimes, though, these parts become Continue reading
The local blood bank called my parents’ home so often while I was growing up, it’s a wonder we didn’t eventually start having the whole staff over for holidays. My father, you see, is blessed (or cursed, you might say, depending on how you look at it) to have Continue reading
I vaguely remember being dragged along to visit an elderly friend of my parents as a child. This friend lived somewhere in northern Michigan and the experience was, to be frank, almost entirely forgettable. There was, though, one aspect of the trip that managed to stick to the walls of my memory– the smell– and no, I am not referring to the elderly friend of my parents. No, I am referring to the Continue reading
Human beings may have a lot of flaws, but imagination, inventiveness and wit are not usually one of them. When something doesn’t work correctly or well-enough, we figure out a way in which it will. Sometimes this involves Continue reading