[diyVT] found a real white elephant in this milling machine from Craigslist ... call this — it’s not exactly a gantry mill, not a horizontal mill, and definitely not a knee mill.

Milling machines move a workpiece into a fixed cutter, or a cutter into a stationary workpiece in vertical or horizontal directions along X, Y, and Z axes. Milling machines may include controls that ...

These offline machines measure various dimensions of cutting tools, including length, diameter and offsets, before the tools ...

Todd Olson calls it his company’s “first seven-figure investment” as he walks toward a towering computer numerical control – ...

It’s obvious that excavators, bulldozers, cranes, backhoes, dump trucks, forklifts, graders and trenchers are all heavy ...

Moving from an aging set of five-axis mills to more advanced machines enabled Hendrick Motorsports to dramatically improve its engine production.

Heidenhain and Acu-Rite Solutions are offering several hands-on experiences at their booth this year, as well as internal components that reduce energy use.

4.6.1. Figure 4.6.2 illustrates the development of a milling machine into a present-day computer-controlled machining center. Figure 4.6.3 shows a production machine convertible to either vertical or ...

Milling your own lumber can save you big bucks, and maybe even earn you a few. A portable sawmill comes to the log and makes ...

That said, these procedures should adapt well to other milling machines and engravers. We should point out that [David] is making boards mostly for vacuum tubes, where circuit trace width and ...

If you want to laminate boards to make a tabletop, you'll need a wood jointer. It's also handy for flattening warped, ...

Along with multiple miscellaneous machine tool support equipment, this lab has the following core equipment: • Manual Bridgeport Vertical Mills with digital readout on each. • Bridgeport Vertical Mill ...