Thomas Martinez

The clevis pin is a humble piece of steel with a hole, a head, and a simple bar of metal. But go too small or … Read more

How many times have you been working on your truck’s suspension only to realize that one of those little split pin is nowhere to be … Read more

When I hear steel on concrete I don’t think of the noise, rather I think about a perfect circle becoming less so. What you may … Read more

Here is the meaning behind the names: precision machine shops use the ER collet system, which scales in size from big end mills down to … Read more

Sometimes, in the middle of a CNC cycle time that just stretched out on shop floor, you might notice the insert failed prematurely. But it’s … Read more

With a head full of doubt and a block of steel in your hand, you stand before the machine. Your intuition tell you one thing, … Read more

Sometimes you’ve been standing at a stripped shaft, wondering about that stubborn metal ring that won’t hold in place. Perhaps it popped out when you … Read more

Typically, when a machine starts to knock, something has slipped from it’s place. In mechanical assemblies, axial movement are the enemy of precision. Bearings comes … Read more