Ephrata Precision Parts as an Economic Bellwether Jim McTague Jim McTague discusses Ephrata Precision Parts, a specialty milling company whose owner, Chuck Daimler, serves 300 customers ranging from aerospace giants to local businesses. Daimler reports th
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🗓️ 17 October 2025
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Jim McTague discusses Ephrata Precision Parts, a specialty milling company whose owner, Chuck Daimler, serves 300 customers ranging from aerospace giants to local businesses. Daimler reports that all customers are thriving and placing orders, suggesting the economy is doing very well and is not headed for a recession.
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| 0:26.6 | former Washington editor for Barron's Magazine, |
| 0:28.6 | now a novelist in Lancaster County, |
| 0:31.8 | about effort to precision parts, |
| 0:35.1 | a small company with a big customer base. |
| 0:41.4 | And Jim's conversation with the leadership points to the fact that the economy is not troubled, |
| 0:44.6 | not slowing down, not headed to a recession, doing very well. |
| 0:45.8 | Here, listen to Jim. |
| 0:47.7 | It's a fascination. |
| 0:51.7 | Efforda, precision parts, Denver, Pennsylvania. |
| 0:56.2 | Jim McTagg, much more of this later, about Lancaster County, |
| 1:04.1 | about the economy in Pennsylvania, about the American economy. Here's Jim. Yeah, effort of precision parts is a precision milling company. It also does welding and fabricating. So if you're a company and you need a |
| 1:12.6 | specialty part, like say a piece of your equipment breaks and you need a specialty gear, effort |
| 1:17.9 | of precision parts will make it to you with mathematical precision, using cab cam. One of the owners, |
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