A new high-tech boring head — the Digital B4035 — has been introduced by Walter. The boring head has an optoelectronic backlash-free adjustment measuring system and digital display with 0.0001-in.

Criterion Machine Works (www.criterionmachineworks.com) has introduced a 0.125-in. diameter, solid carbide qualified length (QL) boring tool to its line of solid carbide boring tools. ... Criterion ...

Dialing in fine boring heads with just a Vernier dial screw can be tricky. When you’re trying to hold a bore to a few tenth’s, it can often take multiple test cuts before getting the ID tolerance just ...

“So just like every other great story in history, ours is going to start at the lathe.” Truer words were never spoken, and thus begins the saga of turning a bar of chrome-moly steel into a shop-built ...

The latest episode “Made in the USA” podcast explores a company that uses collaborative robots, one of the key tools helping US machine shops and other manufacturers compete with lower cost countries ...