General Shop Equipment & Supplies

Machinist's Corner Columnist Michael Deren ponders the ability of machine tool builders to step up their game whenever new tooling becomes available.

Scraping is one of the oldest and most historically significant metal-removal processes, notes Dr. Scott Smith in his Machine Technology column of the September 2014 issue of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine.

3D printing poised to turn prototyping on its head.

Rotary broaching allows machine shops to bring broaching in-house.

Growing U.S. auto market needs supply flexibility and more lightweight parts.

Dr. Jeffrey Badger, author of the "Ask the Grinding Doc" column in Cutting Tool Engineering magazine and host of CTE's Grinding Doc Video Series, previews his 3-day High Intensity Grinding Course.

Röhm Products of America's F-senso pull-in force measurement device enables you to check the pull-in force of your tool clamping system. The regular monitoring of the pull-in force makes it possible to detect changes in the clamping strength before they have an effect on the quality of processing.

A machinist wrote to Dr. Jeffrey Badger, author of the "Ask the Grinding Doc" column in Cutting Tool Engineering magazine, because the "old-timers" in the shop tell him he has to dress at the same wheel speed he uses to grind. The machinist wanted to know if that was true, and, if so, why?

Take a tour of the Allied Machine & Engineering Corp. booth decked out with a tailgating theme for IMTS 2014 at Chicago's McCormick Place. The company featured its APX deep-hole drilling system, which uses a fixed series body with various heads that determine the cutting diameter. There are 10 series to cover the diameter range from 1.500" to 4.000" and depths up to 10 diameters deep.

View a demonstration of multitask horizontal boring mills with integrated contouring heads in this video provided by Fives.

IMTS 2014 opens ... and it's going fast.

Schmitt Industries Inc. announced the SB-2000, a fixed-installation system for single and dual plane manual balancing, and the SB-2000-P for portable applications.