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How It Works – Best Hiring Practices
Today’s Machining World Archive: July 2006, Vol. 2, Issue 07 Finding and hiring good people has always been a challenge. With so many skilled machinists aging toward retirement and fewer [...]
Shop Doc – Dreading the Threading
Today’s Machining World Archive: July 2006 Vol.2, Issue 07 Dear Shop Doc, For turning external threads on my CNC lathe, I am currently using a laydown threading system. I chose [...]
The Hiring Game—Resume Risks, Clues, and Sorry
Today’s Machining World Archive: July 2006 Vol. 2, Issue 07 In the last few years, the reputation of the resume has taken a severe beating. George O’Leary wanted the plum [...]
How It Works – Beyond Calipers
Today’s Machining World Archive: June 2006 Vol. 2, Issue 06 ELECTRONICS, COMPUTERS, VIDEO AND LASERS IN THE QC DEPARTMENT OFFER MORE OPTIONS FOR MEASURING MACHINED PARTS Measuring completed parts can [...]
Shop Doc – Threading Issues
Today’s Machining World Archive: May 2006, Vol.2, Issue 05 Dear Shop Doc, I’ve been tapping parts on Acmes for years, mainly running 12L-14 material. I have a new job, and [...]
How It Works – Rapid Prototyping
Today’s Machining World Archive: April 2006 Vol. 2, Issue 04 Stereolitography turns computer files into parts A small spot of purple light scampers over the surface of the clear fluid [...]
How It Works – Water Power
Today’s Machining World Archive: march 2006, Vol. 2, Issue 03 History In the 1950s, Dr. Norman Franz, a forestry engineer, was trying to find new ways to cut trees for [...]
Gone By Morning – What happens when a business burns
Today’s Machining World Archive: March 2006, Vol. 2, Issue 03 At first, Dan Miller thought the Saturday morning phone call was a late – and very bad – April Fool’s [...]
Shop Doc – Headstock Case
Today’s Machining World Archive: March 2006, Vol.2, Issue 05 Dear Shop Doc, Recently, we accidentally dropped a Daewoo Puma, 12LC CNC lathe and broke the corner off the bed. We [...]
How It Works – Centerless Grinding
Today’s Machining World Archive: February 2006, Vol. 2, issue 2 how to make round bar rounder It seems everything is round at Boston Centerless, a provider of ground stock and [...]