Machine Your Own
A step-by-step approach to machining collets and jaws for lathe workholders.
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Hard Choices: General Industry Coverage
Advances in grinding technology gives manufacturers more ways to produce hardened parts.
CACE Study: General Industry Coverage
Computer-aided cost estimating can help optimize an OEM's or supplier's business in numerous ways.
Best Cost Scenario: General Industry Coverage
It may be penny-wise to refurbish PCD cutting tools, but it also may be productivity-foolish.
Down to Size: General Industry Coverage
There is an alternative to threading small-diameter holes with taps--using a thread mill.
Force Field: General Industry Coverage
Getting a grip with electropermanent workholding.
Cutting CGI PDQ: General Industry Coverage
A rotary cutter permits high-speed machining of compacted graphite iron.
Cutting Cavities and Costs: General Industry Coverage
Recent offerings help moldmakers boost productivity.
The P/M Edge: General Industry Coverage
Powder-metal endmills: the tougher roughers.
Raising Al
Aluminum-titanium-nitride coatings continue to evolve.
Slippery When Blue: General Industry Coverage
A coating system that combines a patented surface impingement process and tungsten disulfide prolongs cutting tool life, but does it promote faster speeds?
The Skinny on Microdrills: General Industry Coverage
The correct application of microdrills requires attention of numerous operational parameters.
