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How to set up your boring bars for success
ARCH Cutting Tools offers a video overview of its Patriot high-performance boring bars, which offer tunable internal damping technology to deliver optimal dynamic stability and yield significant increases in machining performance.
Oil Boss oil skimmer from Abanaki
This Abanaki Corp. video demonstrates how the company's Oil Boss oil skimmer provides cost savings by removing unwanted tramp oil and prolonging the life of the coolant.
Versatile 5-Axis grinder from Star Cutter
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Optimized M5 milling cutters from Sandvik Coromant
In this video overview, Sandvik Coromant introduces the complete series of M5 milling cutters developed for automotive aluminum machining.
Cutting, prepointing and chamfering machine from Rush Machinery
This Rush Machinery video offers an overview of the company's CH-CM0406 Cut-Prepoint-Chamfer Machine, which converts full length blank carbide rods into tool blanks that are ready for fluting and finishing grinding.
Why invest in smart machine monitoring?
Marzel Neckien, president of W Machine Works, San Fernando, California, invested in smart machine monitoring from FactoryWiz that enabled the shop to collect raw machine data and better understand what was happening on their shop floor.
Robots load, Vektek holds
This Vektek Inc. video shows how manufacturing is a relay race like no other during the tool loading and unloading.
Solving spindle problems boosts the bottom line
CNC machine tool spindles are essential to any drilling, milling, boring, grinding, routing, cutting, or sawing process, and many manufacturers and machine shops rely on rebuilders to get production back online as quickly as possible when problems arise, and replacement is required.
