Tag: procurement

This is the third post in our series on the gap between the people who buy abrasives and the people who run them. Catch up on What Welders Know About Abrasives That Buyers Don’t and The Operator Variable. Stand in front of a wall of cut-off wheels at any supply counter and try to pick the winner by looking. Same diameter, same thickness, same arbor hole, same stack of colorful labels promising speed and long life. One carries a price tag twice the size of its neighbor. Nothing about the wheels themselves tells you why. That’s the strange thing[...]

(This is part two of our series on the gap between buyers and operators; read part one here.) Put the same grinding wheel in the hands of two different operators, and you’ll get two different jobs: same box, same lot number, same grit. One guy finishes clean and fast. The other burns through it twice as quickly and swears the wheel is garbage. Both of them are right about what they experienced. Neither of them is telling you the whole story, because the wheel was never the only variable in that equation. Most abrasive marketing wants you to believe[...]