Whether on Swiss and other turn/mill centers, drilling and tapping machines, or with milling attachments, shops are doing more milling with small spindles than ever before. That’s partly due to the ...

No spindle component is immune to failure Machine tool spindles can be remanufactured cost-effectively, and repeatedly Opportunistic upgrades whnen a spindle is due for repair makes economic sense ...

Balanced toolholder assemblies pay dividends in longer spindle and tool life and, especially, in greater metal removal rates at all cutting speeds. Photo courtesy Emuge Corp Modern milling machines ...

Modern machine tools continue to make technical advances, thanks in large part to ongoing improvements and fine-tuning in computer numerical control (CNC) machining. Over the past 60 years or so, CNC ...

We sometimes wonder if designers ever actually use their own products, or even put them through some sort of human-factors testing before putting them on the market. Consider the mechanism that ...

SAE International Journal of Materials and Manufacturing, Vol. 6, No. 1 (January 2013), pp. 43-56 (14 pages) ABSTRACT In order to machine a wide variety of materials with a single spindle and setup, a ...

For his senior design project at Swarthmore College, [Julian] decided to build a metalworking equivalent to the RepRap. [Julian]’s final project is a self-replicating milling machine, and hopefully ...