[TenTec] Ten Tec custom enclosures comment...

[Bob McGraw - K4TAX]

Excellent assessment of business to come.  Thanks.

Now if the National News Media outlets would just get on board as opposed to 
their doom and gloom stories.  I recall it was Chicken Little that 
proclaimed "the sky is falling, the sky is falling".

73
Bob, K4TAX


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stuart Rohre" <rohre at arlut.utexas.edu>
To: <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2014 2:34 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Ten Tec custom enclosures comment...


>I take many trade magazines in electronics and manufacturing.  This year 
>there has been a theme of the renovation and renewal of American 
>manufacturing.
>
> Building "stuff" is coming back on shore.  A prime example is the new 
> Tesla car plant being wooed by a number of states.  There are a lot of 
> suppliers that migrate to areas having an automotive plant as well as the 
> brand plant.
>
> There is also moves in electric batteries (for cars), and other areas.
>
> The shale oil and fracturing technology, drove up the need to manufacture 
> oil rigs in the USA.  Those are big projects and structures that generate 
> a lot of auxillary machinery orders for winches, steel cable, motive 
> power, pumps, hose, couplings, castings, machine shop work on oil tools, 
> etc.
>
> Thales, a British aerospace vendor, is moving its radio manufacturing 
> production line to the USA after receiving a big contract from the Coast 
> Guard to replace every radio in their fleet; cutters, ice breakers, down 
> to patrol boats.
>
> The recent friction in Eastern Europe is likely to put the spurs to 
> developing the private payloads to orbit missions for supplying the 
> International Space Station.  The manned transfer craft may not be 
> available from the Russian space agency in a year.
>
> The delay of the Canada to central US pipeline, has engendered growth in 
> the two national Railroads of Canada running joint trains into the heart 
> of the US and down to the Gulf Coast.  Just as there have been some trains 
> with Engines from Mexico coming up into TX.
>
> Even if the remaining unbuilt section of the pipeline gets out of 
> Washington red tape, the expansion of oil carriage by train is said to be 
> cost competitive by the time you figure that the train tank cars can do 
> something the pipeline cannot.  In both carriage schemes, the oil must be 
> thinned or diluted.  At the Gulf Coast, the diluent is recycled and by 
> train can be sent backwards to Canada for reuse.  And by heating the tank 
> cars, (already an existing technology used for syrups), you do not have to 
> dilute it as much, as is done for pipeline transport.
>
> There is a good business in making enclosures, especially custom ones.
> Check enclosure prices even in surplus outlets.
>
> Stuart Rohre
> K5KVH
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