By Mark Bos In today’s difficult economy, we are all trying to make parts faster and cheaper. Unfortunately, making parts faster is sometimes at odds with making them cheaper. I [...]
Dear Shop Doc, My Acme-Gridley screw machines have been real money makers over the years, but all that production takes its toll in wear and tear on the machines. Will [...]
Todays’ Machining World Archives March 2008 Volume 04 Issue 03 Dear Shop Doc, We are trying to stamp our company logo on components produced on our CNC Swiss type machines. [...]
Today’s Machining World Archives August 2010 Volume 06 Issue 06 Dear Shop Doc, One of our operators came from another shop and told us that we can use Custom Macro [...]
Dear Shop Doc, We are a new job shop looking to add some equipment. We are wondering whether we should invest in used rotary transfer machines like a Hydromat Legacy [...]
Dear Shop Doc, We have often heard the high speed machine spindle is expensive and has to be replaced at some point. Can you shed some light on the high [...]
Dear Shop Doc, I have recently been asked if my shop does “micro” machining. I’ve done some work on small parts recently, but I’m not exactly sure what is meant [...]