Its so sad, I work in a aircraft facility, that used to be an old sheet metal aircraft facility.
There are several old timers still working there but all the old machinery is ripped out when floor space is needed.
I dont know how many brakes, presses, stripped machines they have scraped, that were still functioning and working.
They will sell them for around .05 cents on a dollar to scrap price for employees, but the old machines are heavy and require crew of movers to even think about buying any of them.
The last machine they scrapped was still running, and making parts, a NC router and stamping machine, old school but it worked, they replaced it with a .75 million dollar router, that the company could not get to work.
We hired a brilliant, guy just to get the machine to work, he is good. And he is going to set up a robot line to trim parts. The company scrapped the electronics out of the old machine, to a guy in VA that had the same machine in his shop, and the metal parts went to scrap.
