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No Such Thing as Luck: A One-Person Shop Owner’s Success Story
You could say he’s a lucky Guy. He has the ideal setup for a moonlighting at-home-machinist: The perfect location, the perfect day job, and a double-threat skill set that allows him to hire himself for prototyping and low-volume production work. But Guy Driscoll’s biggest talent might be creating his own luck.
Read MoreTungaloy Upgrades DrillMeister DMP Drill Heads
Tungaloy claims its 30 new drillheads will improve wear resistance for jobs that require hole diameters ranging from 6.0 to 25.9 mm.
Read MoreSchunk Announces Magnetic Gripper
Schunk’s EMH electro-permanent magnetic gripper has a compact, energy-efficient design.
Read MoreAccudyne Offers Expanded Capacity Bar Puller
The EZ-Puller Expanded Capacity is an auto-adjusting bar puller that enables automatic operation of CNC lathes, designed for larger round bar diameters.
Read MoreForkardt's FNC+ Chuck Extends Compatible Weights and RPM
Forkardt’s revisions to the FNC+ Quick Jaw Change Power Chuck increase its versatility, expanding the compatible range of RPMs and workpiece weights.
Read MoreNorton Ideal-Prime Grinding Wheels Increase Wheel Life
Norton’s Ideal-Prime Internal Diameter Grinding Wheels feature optimized, proprietary grains and matrices that lengthen wheel life and improve grinding and cost efficiency.
Read MoreGWS Alumigator End Mill Reduces Roughing Chatter
GWS Tool Group’s Alumigator ASR-5 end mill sports a chatter-reducing indexing configuration and geometric features that reduce chip size.
Read MoreTungaloy Iso-EcoTurn Inserts Optimize Chip Control
Tungaloy’s Iso-EcoTurn GNMG and FNMG inserts feature reduced nose angles compared to its CNMG and DNMG inserts, improving chip control during certain profile and face turning operations.
Read MoreCNC Machining Gets a Composite Infusion
High-volume milling illuminates the potential of merging metal with lighter, vibration-resistant materials.
Read MoreStandardized Workholding Saves Shop Hours of Setup Time
5th Axis’ workholding solutions have enabled Will-Mor Manufacturing to achieve vastly better repeatability and stability, cutting setup time and even whole setups.
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