General Shop Equipment & Supplies

Like the parts they thread, taps for oil and gas parts can be complicated.

Vacuum workholding is catching on in new and different applications.

Read CTE's 2010 Salary Survey to learn which metalworking positions are up and which ones are down in earnings since the 2008 survey, and how benefit packages have changed.

Jet-engine manufacturing typically requires through-holes that accommodate fasteners for various components and subassemblies. These through-holes must be chamfered, free of burrs and have radiused edge transitions.

A grinding shop trying to grind a 0.006" radius into a hardened steel part with a 60-grit, vitrified-bond, aluminum-oxide wheel was having trouble with burn and huge chatter. Dr. Jeffrey Badger, the host of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine's Grinding Doc Video Series, explains how to handle the situation in the 11th episode of the video series.

Aug. 2010 — PartMaker Inc.'s Vesion 2011 CAM software offers specialist functionality for the programming and simulation of Bar Fed Mills.

This new book by Diamond Industrial Tools' Harry G. Sachsel on "Precision Abrasive Grinding in the 21st Century" was specifically compiled and written for those involved with precision abrasive grinding and also those that use them.

Verisurf Software Inc. released the 5th generation of its Verisurf X software.

Kurt Manufacturing Co.'s new HDM690 vise is for precision clamping large parts for tool and die and production CNC applications.

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Machinist's Corner column for July 2010 issue of Cutting Tool Engineering.

Part Time column for July 2010 issue of Cutting Tool Engineering.