Who knew that making buoys and airport lighting required such cool machines?

Last week I visited (yes, visited! in person!!!) a Tilton company called Sealite that makes ocean buoys and airport lighting. It’s gotten a huge Air Force order and been purchased by a big company, which is why I was there, but the cool part was the 20-foot-tall oven attached to a gigantic mold that can spin on two axes at once.

Normally I’d cut-and-paste the article here but you should check it out on the Monitor site to see all Geoff Forester’s photos. Here’s the article.