Tanstaafl Machine Tool Service, Inc was founded in October of 1987 to provide high quality machine tool solutions to the metalworking industry. Ryland Fleet, the founder brought to the company 10 years of experience as a field service engineer.
   With necessity being the Mother that she is, Ryland kept an eye open for devices that provided solutions for a broad range of applications as well. Among the successful inventions are:
 
 
            1974       Hand held motorized shaft polishing system for the automotive mechanic.
            1975       fully articulated robot that waited tables in a space theme restaurant. He would come
                             to the table, take a drink order, go to the bar, get a beer, and bring it to the customer
                             and pour it. All the while making verbal cracks at bald headed men and little children.
                             All of this with the limited technology of that day made him rather unique as well as a
                            magnet to customers. He was found to be able to disco dance as well.
            1983       Baby bouncer…With the birth of his daughter, Ryland built this device that would fly
                             her around the room with a cyclic bounce.
            1984       EEG adaptor for the common oscilloscope.
            1985        Sighting device,    US Navy   Sorry, details not available.
            1987        Large diameter circular saw  (120” capacity) cutting system
            1988        Sonic safe cracking aid.
            1991        Geodesic dome connector and exterior skin system as applied to the 4 frequency     
                             icosahedrons.
            1992        Audible wing level sensor to enable blind people to fly airplanes.
            1993        Whiskey ageing system. Produces 8-year-old whiskey in 4 weeks.
            1994        Indoor vegetable growing system. By controlling light, heat, humidity, CO2 levels, and
                             rainfall,  any climate in the world could be duplicated. Produced exotic foreign vegetables.
            1999      Reversing spiral staircase
            1998       Concrete utility pole cutting system
            1999       Motorized zip line system
            2000       Machine tool spindle alignment system
            2001       MO-AT, (mother of all triggers) Trigger group for the M2HB .50 caliber Browning belt fed rifle
            2002      Water jacket and companion water cooled support mount for the .50 caliber Browning
            2004       Mount adaptor for the 1919 .30 caliber Browning belt fed rifle. This device enables the use
                            of  the 1919 on the German Lafette mount.
            2005       Portable aircraft preheater system. Articulating aircraft tow bar system.
 
 
The Acme Gadget Division was formed to design and manufacture various mechanical devices
            for the firearms industry as well as machine tool applications.
We are in the process of acquiring a Type 7 Federal Firearms License
With the Class 2 endorsement  (full automatic weapons)
 
What the future holds for this small company is limited only to the imagination.