Recently, marketing guru Seth Godin wrote about the contrasting problems of “this is the best I can do” and “it’s not good enough.”

There are many small, portable drilling machines manufactured all over the world that I would classify as wannabe drills-drills that are purchased by well-meaning nonprofit charities, church groups and others to drill water wells in developing countries.

The simplest method of starting a three-phase pump motor is by closing a contactor and allowing the motor to start at full voltage, or “across-the-line,” as it is called.

Walt Gomolka, of Sano Drilling in Pennsylvania, conducts coring for coal exploration to depths of 1,500 feet, using NQ wireline with a Mobile Drill B37.

I can remember asking this column’s title question long before I started working for a bentonite company.

Consider this scenario: You go to a flea market, and spot an electric motor that looks similar to the one on the wash-down pump in your barn that is starting to make noise.

I recently was talking with a driller about a job he had just completed.