Il be including the various Sarns Machine operations as I catch up on them.
My cousin, Richard Sarns, was a machinist in Ann Arbor, MI in the 1940s and 1950s. As the medical school began it's first experiments with open heart surgery, Dick worked with them to create the new technology needed to keep a patient alive during this process. His company designed and built the heart-lung machines that made it possible to carry out these procedures, which are now commonplace. In the 1960s, he helped to develop the filtering machines for kidney dialysis. In the 1980s he sold his company to 3M and is now engaged in heavy fishing on Lake Michigan.
Another cousin, Ted, has a shop in Naples, FL, that he runs with his son Dean. The two of them manufacture amazingly amazing bits for the 3M division started by his brother Dick. Stuff like sternum saws (that'll sure give you the willies). Oddly enough, although Dean is a total gearhead, he doesn't have a web presence yet.
More info to come.