roller-coaster ride, but with perseverance, determination and diversification, the company now is on a gratifying upward swing. Carney expects that trajectory to continue. While he’s glad about that vertical trend, Carney is prob- ably just as glad about a lateral trend his business has gone through. Before moving into its current 8400-ft² facility this past summer the company operated from the 1800-ft² build- ing it started in.
“We started out with a Fadal 4020 VMC that we bought
new,” explained Carney. “We also bought a few pieces of used toolroom equipment: a Bridgeport, a Hardinge toolroom lathe, a new DoAll cutoff saw and a Harig surface grinder.”
An Episode of Moonlighting
He and his parents launched the company as a sideline to their full-time jobs at a local auto supplier.
“We had a lot of contacts in racing and we thought we would have enough work from that to keep us in business,”
“It was packed to the max,” said Carney. “We were also using my parents’ attached garage to store material. We also were using the driveway, but under-roof we had only 1800 ft².”
Within that space was an impressive arsenal of equipment for a startup operation.
“We had a lot of contacts in racing and we thought we would have enough work from that to keep us in business,” said Carney. “That’s what led us to go ahead and start the company. We were completely wrong in our assumption that the racing contacts were going to be a good way to keep the business growing. You can probably make a fortune in rac-
A new Omax 80X Water Jet (shown) and a Mori Seiki Duravertical 5100 Machining Center have been added to the shop’s complement of equipment as a result of the expansion.