The Tinbasher | Company Blog of Butler Sheetmetal

Have You Got All Those Receipts?

Posted on 22, Oct

Scrap Metal

Well it’s nice to see that Peter Pike, our Burnley MP, is responsible for having the fourth largest expenses claim amongst all of the Westminster elite at £153,989. But, he simply dismisses the figures as ‘misleading nonsense’. What – did he actually spend more? Our accountant breaks into a cold sweat when we try and [...]

Spam. Spam. Spam. Spam.

Posted on 22, Oct

Scrap Metal

We always know when things go a little quiet in our neck of the woods. We’re suddenly inundated with sales reps. They ring, they pop in, they send you stuff through the post, but they very rarely pester us via email. Obviously I regard this as a boon as it’s bad enough wading through all [...]

Sheet Metal Fabrication & Happiness – Who’d Have Thought It?

Posted on 21, Oct

I just knew there might be somebody out there who actually wanted to read this. I never knew it was going to be Todd Sattersten over at Rick E. Bruner’s Business Blog Consulting though. My father had a sheet metal fabrication business for 23 years. I worked summers there while going through college and spent [...]

Fame Costs. And Right Now’s Where You Start Paying.

Posted on 20, Oct

Fairly shortly after I started the Tinpot Alley site I received a phone call from a rather excitable TV company researcher. She was after some stainless steel planters for a new garden makeover show. I’d been doing a spot of ‘forum posting’ regarding our planters and that’s how she’d found us. (If you ever waltz [...]

Cool Warmth (Yes, really)

Posted on 19, Oct

The Fireorb Don’t you just love a bit of quality stainless steel design? If you pop over to the Fireorb site there are pictures of them in various swanky houses and pictures of them being spun and fabricated. Don’t let it be said that you can’t mix high end stainless steel design and sheet metal [...]

Why Blog?

Posted on 19, Oct

I’ve found a marvellous blog which explains the basics of business blogging for the novices amongst us. Frederik Wacka writes CorporateBlogging.info and it sets out all the reasons why you might want to run a business blog. It really is a why, what and how of business blogging and its simplicity and focus, in terms [...]

Stainless Steel Odour Eaters?

Posted on 18, Oct

Now I’m taking no responsibility for this whatsoever, but for all of you too lazy to wash your hands after preparing slightly smellier foodstuffs why not try running your hands across a stainless steel blade. Or anything else stainless steel for that matter. It just might look a little odd if your dinner guests arrive [...]