Angle Chart

Angle Chart

If you’re cutting wood with a power saw, I know you’ve been there: wrong angle on your drawing, panic time! Cut the wood, check the … Read more

Knurl Diameter Pre-Turn Calculator

Knurl Diameter Pre-Turn Calculator

Until you’ve produced a piece of diameter that’s out by even a few thousandths, it feels like a silly little shop trick. You thought your … Read more

How to Use Bosch 18v Drill Driver: Wood, Concrete & Screw Guide

How To Use Bosch 18V Drill Driver: Wood, Concrete & Screw Guide

Insert the 18V battery into the drill’s base and ensure that it locks in place. Push the battery indicator button to check status before powering … Read more

Tap Chart

Tap Chart

This section covers drilling. A metallic snap sounds like a broken tap in a machine shop. The snap mean you didn’t add enough cutting fluid, … Read more

Flange And Bolt Chart

Flange And Bolt Chart

When building a piping system, you may inadvertantly select an incorrect gasket for a flange face. It’s easy to do: you just grab something without … Read more

Parting Tool Feed Rate Calculator

Parting Tool Feed Rate Calculator

The feed rates for this parting off tool are important because any miscalculation during cutoff operations will typicaly either blow out the insert, throw the … Read more

Chemical Material Compatibility Chart

Chemical Material Compatibility Chart

It stays fine until someone places it in a bucket of something that eats away the bottom. Suddenly you has an industrial mess with expensive … Read more

Wheel Torque Chart

Wheel Torque Chart

Replacing a tire isn’t merely about jacking up the vehicle and cranking on lug nuts until they’re tight. Why? It is a delicate act of … Read more

Lathe Change Gear Ratio Calculator

Lathe Change Gear Ratio Calculator

The reason the lathe change gear ratio calculator is important is because if you get it wrong even by just one tooth, what used to … Read more

Stainless Steel Plate Gauge Chart

Stainless Steel Plate Gauge Chart

When you’re standing in the aisle or paging through a catalog, you’ll get lost in all the thickness choices available on stainless steel plate. It’s … Read more

Taper Turning Offset Calculator for Lathe Setover

Taper Turning Offset Calculator for Lathe Setover

Turning tapers on a lathe appears easy enough… but then you measure them and find one end is proud of the other by several thousandths. … Read more

Stainless Steel Gauge Chart

Stainless Steel Gauge Chart

Don’t know your gauge? You’ll have problems if you don’t know your gauge, like I did during my first custom kitchen project. It is usually … Read more

Tailstock Offset Taper Calculator

Tailstock Offset Taper Calculator

It turns a taper accuratley between centers. This calculator takes the taper length, work length between centers, and taper diameter and give you the proper … Read more

How to Use Bauer 20v Drill Driver: Wood, Concrete & Screw Test

How To Use Bauer 20V Drill Driver: Wood, Concrete & Screw Test

The 20V battery fits snuggly into the base of the Bauer 1791C-B1 Hypermax drill-driver and you get started. You slip it in and it lock … Read more