Carbide Insert Grades Chart
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
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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
When your bearing starts humming inside of its housing and gets loose, I think you know what’s going on. A small piece didn’t hold it … Read more
Drill the hole and then insert fastener. Squeeze the tool. It sounds easy enough but you end up with a loose bolt. Why? Because the … Read more
If you’ve ever stood in front of a box full of carbide inserts and scratched your head, join the club. It’s like they’re little jewels, … Read more
When you have a spindle chatter it’s your cue. The tool is not designed for what you are running so there is mismatch in the … Read more
The single most important variable in knurling is one you’ve likely already overlooked: the starting diameter of the blank. If you don’t pay attention to … Read more
When you watch someone set up a mill or lathe, it’s kind of magical. Raw metal go in, and out pops a precisely shaped part … Read more
Rivets can seem like a simple thing. Anyone can tell which size one fits into a wing skin, right? Wrong. Each rivet has its own … Read more
Then there’s this: you pull a solid rivet out of tin and think “oh crap, I don’t know if that’s gonna fit”. You drill your … Read more
“Your grip requirement is based off the total thickness of all the materials you are clamping together. That combined depth tell you what size rivet … Read more
Why does it seem like it’s so hard to clean? You’re standing there, a tangled hose in one hand and a pressure washer in the … Read more
Perhaps you’ve tried to drill into something and the bit never cuts through metal, just spins until it heats up and dulls out? You might … Read more