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Machining & Manufacturing

Lords of the Ring

Ladish Forging, a firm with over century of experience forging big parts for demanding applications, had to do some serious planning when it took on task of ring rolling and forging 21.5-ft diameter kiln tire out of a 12-ft-wide, 225,000-lb carbon-steel donut.

T-slot scrapers - J. W. Winco

The RoHS-compliant, Series No. 6485 T-slot scrapers clear debris from T-slots on milling machines or rotary T-slot tables.

Blowoff and cooling products - Exair Corp.

The full-color, 160-page Catalog 23 offers products for common industrial cooling, drying, conveying, blow off, cleaning, and static-electricity problems.

Stratasys Dimension 1200 3D Printer
3D Printing
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Brent Denston of Stratasys demonstrates the advantages of 3D printing to MACHINE DESIGN editor Jessica Shapiro. 9:52

“Smart” brazing torch - S.K. Brazing

The Torch Man is a new manual brazing-torch unit that features a location jig, gas saver, torch hanger, digital pressure controller, automatic wire feeder, and a temperature sensor.

Aerospace bearings - Tuthill Controls

AS81935-compliant, PTFE-lined, rod-end bearings have male or female threads in wide or narrow series.

Wear-resistant conveyor - Exair Corp

The heavy-duty threaded Line Vac conveyors convert ordinary pipe into a powerful conveying system for bulk materials such as steel shot, metal parts, scrap, and trim.

Design Considerations for Metal Injection Molding

Tips on designing for MIM

“Personal” CNC Makes Parts for Studying Sharks
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A CNC machine tool from Tormach lets one shop quickly handle custom orders for Crittercam parts.

The Camara Oscura Being Developed by South Coast Photonics Could Revolutionize the Way Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing of Electronic
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The Camara Oscura being developed by South Coast Photonics could revolutionize the way roll-to-roll manufacturing of electronic devices is done.

Machine Tools That are Cooled Last Up to Twice as Long as Non-Cooled Tools

Machine tools that are cooled last up to twice as long as non-cooled tools

Stamping capacity - Boker’s Inc.

Stamping capacity - Boker’s Inc.

Constant-Velocity Milling Spits Out Prototypes

A recent vertical machining center (VMC) features what’s called a constant velocity (CV) controller which provides a novel approach to chip-removal theory.

Advanced Manufacturing: Rapid Roughing of Tough Materials

A nontraditional “hybrid” machining method with roots in the aircraft industry speedily rough-cuts tough materials such as Inconel and titanium

Scanning for Ideas: Fast and Furious Deburring

Parts with internal burrs and whiskers can drive up rejection rates. So to get rid of burrs, engineers at Earth-Chain, Indianapolis

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