Videos

Parlec is creating new standards for the precision boring industry. Manufactured in America, the Parlec modular boring line offers a full range of capabilities, a modular design and unmatched repeatable precision.

PRAB Product Manager Jack Huver demonstrates the engineering power of the Vertical Axis Crusher as it quickly and efficiently preconditions metal scrap into smaller, more manageable chips in this brief online video.

The Abrasive Technology culture is built around finding creative ways to solve problems for our customers, mostly with diamond and CBN grinding wheels and tools.

Get faster, more accurate set ups with Carr Lane's CL5 Quick-Change 5-Axis Workholding solution, which consists of three components: a subplate, a riser and top tooling made up of a vise or a fixture plate. The combination allows flexible and easy clamping, and 5-side part access.

That's a typical result for thousands of companies that are using Fastenal's vending solutions to dispense, control and track their supplies. For more information, contact your local Fastenal store.

ThermoGrip is the "new" tool clamping system for automotive, aerospace, medical and die/mold manufacturing. Its high TIR cutting tool precision is said to improve cutting tool performance in tool life and machining accuracy.

Tungsten ToolWorks offers a web-based tool that lets you create your own custom cutting tool to fit your exact needs. This video takes you through the process step-by-step so you can complete a quote on your own.

The new Toolingtrader.com is said to be the industry's most complete interactive web portal for buying and selling surplus tooling for the machining industry. The site also features industry forums, technical data sheets, and the ability for sellers to upload multiple products at once.

A random arrangement is all well and good when it comes to avant-garde music, but the random crystal growth direction found in conventional CVD alumina cutting tool coatings can create weak areas where cracks form, shortening tool life.

Like many manufacturers across the U.S., Greendale's Kinetic Company faces a shortage of skilled labor. Long-term, highly skilled employees are retiring, leaving the knife-making company with a younger, less experienced workforce. With that challenge in mind and armed with a Workforce Advancement Training (WAT) grant, managers from Kinetic Company teamed with Milwaukee Area Technical College to enhance the skills of their incumbent workers.

Dr. Jeffrey Badger, the host of Cutting Tool Engineering's Grinding Doc Video Series, fields a question from a shop grinding hardened steel with a CBN wheel. Though the shop is using a high-pressure cleaning nozzle, it doesn't seem to help much. The shop wants to know how much pressure they need in the nozzle?

The RobbJack Corp. demonstrates its patented mirror-edge geometry, which reportedly dampens vibration to help eliminate chatter, in this brief 78-second video.