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To: Snowshoe who wrote (33092)	4/14/2008 1:52:52 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 217786

Industrial scale is interesting. I knew the principle of bigger is better due to economies of scale but was impressed when I started going around industries in Canada selling lubricants and fuels. At Ivaco Rolling Mills near Hawkesbury, Ontario, I still recall watching in awe the waterfall of wire coil coming off the end of the line with huge blowers cooling it from red to black. My lubricants had to keep the whole huge process going. Mess up and the production loss is huge. Nescafe had huge coffee filling rotating machines filling swarms of jars simultaneously. In NZ, they had an oscillating two arm filler which would do one jar, then swing down and do a jar on the other end of the arm. Brick making was done en masse with rows of clay coming out, sliced and ready to cook. Paper machines had huge rolls of paper coming out the end spinning flat out to collect the output, with huge log pulverizing machines at the start. Cement works had monstrous great kilns rotating slowly with mountains of cement coming out the end. Nuclear reactor nickel zirconium tube making at Noranda fed the manufacture of vast electricity supply, but I guess they fell on hard times as nuclear got a bad rap. Coming back to New Zealand a couple of years later was like going to Lilliput. Money was big in Canada too. I'd collect cheques for $70,000 while in NZ they thought it a big deal for $3,000. No wonder NZ is relatively poor. If anyone tries to do anything good, they are stopped. So they have to go to Oz or somewhere. NZ only allows socialist Lilliputian thinking. Mqurice