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10 Questions You Should Ask a Mechanic Before They Work on Your Car

Before you let anyone work on your car, ask them these 10 questions. Based on their answers, you'll know if they're the right mechanic to do the job.

This is What a Massive 500 Gallon Propane Tank Explosion Looks Like

If there's one thing that you want to avoid with anything that's propane powered from your grill to your heater, It would most obviously be a situation that would put the propane tank in danger of building up enough pressure to explode and send shrapnel flying everywhere. While these tanks are fitted with safety...

How Can Drivers Avoid Costly Automotive Repair?

What is the key to avoiding costly automotive repair? The answer is fairly obvious—keep up with basic automotive service at the appropriate mileage and time intervals. You will be helping your vehicle keep operating efficiently for as long as possible.How do you do this, you ask? First of all, reg...

Peak Toolworks Endurance Diamond Finger Joint Tool in IWF 2022 Debut

Peak Toolworks (IWF Booth B4816) will show its Endurance Diamond Finger Joint Tool at IWF for the first time. Based on a polycrystalline diamond grade blade for tooling technology developed by Peak Toolworks in 2018, it was incorporated into the Endurance Diamond Finger Joint Tool in 2020, an innovation to the many decades of HSS… Continue reading Peak Toolworks Endurance Diamond Finger Joint Tool in IWF 2022 Debut

What Is CNC Machining?

CNC machines create parts from just about any material imaginable. Learn more here.

The Legit-Cool French Fashion Brands You Haven't Heard of (Yet)

Metal AM in a Machine Shop? Ask the Marines

A hybrid system combining metal 3D printing with machining gives the Marine Corps perhaps its most effective resource yet for obtaining needed hardware in the field. It also offers an extreme version of the experience a machine shop might have in adding metal AM to its capabilities.

Benefits of Using Scrap Metal

The benefits of recycling metal are endless for both the economy and environment — because scrap metal can be used, reused and dispersed again and again.

This Machine Shop In A Box Turns Your Desk Into A Factory

3-D printers are so one-dimensional. This machine shop in a box fits on your desk and can print, mill, and etch multiple materials. It even catches fish! (No really, but it can 3-D-print one.)

Your In-House Panel Machine Shop for Custom Solutions.

80/20’s in-house Panel Machine Shop provides the total solution. With over 100 varieties of plastic panels, aluminum plates, and wire mesh and thicknesses ranging up to half an inch, you won’t have to wait on material or machining. 80/20 has the technology to send your design files directly to the machines, ensuring accuracy and reducing turnaround time.

3 Ways To STOP Your Machine Shop From Losing Money

The CNC Machinist BlogIn today’s age … every machine shop is looking for an ADVANTAGE. Most, however, are looking for the “home run” … and overlook the advantages / solutions they trip over every day. It’s not always that big hitter but a lot of little things that can contribute to your shop losing money and profitsWe know that the task of turning around a non-profitable shop is daunting … so we decided to help by focusing on some of the…

11 Great Ideas for Machine Shops

Forward-thinking machine shops must watch for emerging technologies. Here are 11 ideas we found this week for set-up, tooling, machining, and shop operations.

MC007: It’s Not Your Dad’s Machine Shop [Podcast]

Manufacturing conjures up an image of a dirty, physical, labor intensive job, but the reality is that the machining industry is one of the most technological forward and innovative industries. In...

Behind the scenes at the Dietrich School’s machine shop

Meet the people who mill, drill and 3D print the tools that keep Pitt research on the cutting edge.

Turret Added to Five-Axis Bar-Fed Milling Machine : Modern Machine Shop

This bar-fed mill features a nine-station turret in addition to a five-axis milling spindle. That way, turning can be performed on the bar while the milling spindle performs backworking on a parted-off workpieceBlog: 5/18/2017Executive Editor, Modern Machine ShopThis bar-fed machining center features a five-axis milling spindle as well as a nine-position turret. Therefore, turning and backworking can be performed simultaneouslyThe 408MTT machine…

Bespoke customisation for FUNUC machines by JL Goor

The centre will allow Wicklow-based JL Goor to customise machines for its customers, providing turn-key products that are bespoke to the production facility they are destined for.