The Tinbasher | Company Blog of Butler Sheetmetal

It’s Going to be Like Jim’ll Fix It for Some Lucky Banker

Posted on 10, Feb

Butler Sheetmetal Ltd

So in I popped to Radio Shack (which is the American equivalent of Tandy – RIP) to ask them about an outdoor antenna set up for receiving over-the-air HD. It’s better than your average cable or satellite signal, and it’s free (the signal, not the antenna). I’m also loathe to pay a premium to my [...]

Female Mechanics Calendar and the Tottenham Wrench

Posted on 22, Jan

The Tinbasher

Three minutes away you were from having the pleasure of me videoing myself doing a naked umbaba round my back garden in the snow. But thankfully, Spurs put paid to that little escapade just as I was getting down to my underpants. They also put paid to any other thoughts of a gaggle of Dingles [...]

Obama’s in Town to Tout ‘Green’ Manufacturing

Posted on 16, Jan

Sheet Metal Fabrication

Now I don’t want anybody getting too giddy, but rumour has it that Mr. Obama is going to be around and about this neck of the woods at some point today. Not that I have any intention of bracing the elements to take a peek – it’s been a touch nippy these past couple of [...]

“Two World Wars and One Great Depression Do-Dah Do-Dah”

Posted on 9, Jan

This credit collapse/meltdown/armageddon is a curious one to fathom. Do you not think? What are you lot seeing and hearing? It seems like any response seems wholly inappropriate. For example, if you acknowledge there’s a squeeze going on but then follow up with how it isn’t affecting you and you’re bucking the trend, you’re a [...]

Yuletide Welding Caps

Posted on 24, Dec

The Tinbasher

What do you give that special welder in your life who’s in a festive funk and has a head shaped like a balloon? Why, a Christmas welding cap, of course: Merry Christmas…

Off to SES Chicago

Posted on 10, Dec

Well I’m off up yonder to that there windy city tomorrow to partake in a Blogging for Business panel at SES Chicago. Thankfully it’s a Tinbasher case study so I theoretically should know what I’m talking about. But it’s certainly felt like a bit of a task trying to condense every single marvellous morsel of [...]

Slippery Scam Artists: The Nigerian Soapy Smith

Posted on 11, Nov

Butler Sheetmetal Ltd

In terms of our marketing, not only am I omnipotent but I also have a certain omnipresence. By this, I mean I track every single email as it bounces about between all concerned parties. More often than not it just means I hold an extra saved copy of an email, but every now and again [...]