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"For years I endeavored to become a preferred source of custom propellers and build a viable company. I realized not long ago that Catto Propellers had succeeded in part of that but failed in another part. We had clients and revenue and profits, but no assets. All of the 1,000-plus design-and-build jobs in our files were of the “one-off” variety.

That’s what got me thinking about 3D digital scanning, so for a couple of years I asked all the smart people I knew in aerospace and other tech fields what they knew about the subject. Surprisingly, none of them had any direct experience with it. I wasn’t trained in engineering but I have a pretty persistent mind when I’m looking for technology to do my work better, so I kept at it."

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