Carbide Insert Grades Chart

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

E Clip Size Chart

E Clip Size Chart

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

External Snap Ring Size Chart

External Snap Ring Size Chart

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

Internal Snap Ring Size Chart

Internal Snap Ring Size Chart

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

Rivet Nut Size Chart

Rivet Nut Size Chart

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

Carbide Insert Identification Chart

Carbide Insert Identification Chart

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

End Mill Size Chart

End Mill Size Chart

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

Knurling Diameter Chart

Knurling Diameter Chart

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

Surface Footage Chart

Surface Footage Chart

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

Aircraft Rivet Size Chart

Aircraft Rivet Size Chart

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

Solid Rivet Size Chart

Solid Rivet Size Chart

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

Blind Rivet Size Chart

Blind Rivet Size Chart

“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

Pressure Washer Hose Size Chart

Pressure Washer Hose Size Chart

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

Drill Cutting Speed Chart

Drill Cutting Speed Chart

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