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Shop Doc – Thread-rolling
Today’s Machining World Archives May 2011 Volume 07 Issue 04 Dear Shop Doc, We have always performed single point threading for external threads on our CNC lathes, but lately we [...]
Shop Doc – Should I Scrap?
Today’s Machining World Archives April 2011 Volume 07 Issue 03 Dear Shop Doc, I recently bought a shop with CNC lathes and mills. In one room there are old #00 [...]
Shop Doc – Compensate for Brush Wear
Today’s Machining World Archives March 2011 Volume 07 Issue 02 Dear Shop Doc, We need to make multiple passes back and forth to clean a part, but we need to [...]
Shop Doc – Reducing Chatter
Today’s Machining World Archives November/December 2010 Volume 06 Issue 09 Dear Shop Doc, In our facility we do a lot of general purpose face milling applications. We’ve got a new [...]
Shop Doc – Coming Up Short
Dear Shop Doc, I’ve been struggling with part length issues on one of my Brown & Sharpe #2 Ultramatics. The variance does not appear to be related to tool movement [...]
Shop Doc – Custom Macro programming
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 [...]
Shop Doc – Dysfunctional Machine
Today’s Machining World Archives September 2010 Volume 06 Issue 07 Dear Shop Doc, We have a machine that occasionally frustrates us to no end. Sometimes a dimension goes out and [...]
Shop Doc – Micro Beginnings
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 [...]
Shop Doc – Mark S. Begone
Today’s Machining World Archive: January 2008, Vol.4, Issue 01 Dear Shop Doc, I¹m having an issue with a job we run on a CNC Swiss. If I adjust the bushing [...]
Shop Doc – Vexed Hex
Dear Shop Doc, I have a part that has an internal hexagon that needs to be put into the part in relation to milled features. Is there some way that [...]