The Kalamazoo Machine Tool Model H310SA semi-automatic horizontal bandsaw allows quick and easy setup, and full-cycle semi-automatic operation. The sawing controls are simple, logical, and easy to understand. The operator places the workpiece in the machine and then pushes a single button. The vise clamps and the material size is automatically sensed by the sawframe, [...]
The fax machine is a powerful tool that gained widespread use in the 1980’s, but with email becoming a far superior method of transmitting documents, the fax is quickly becoming an archaic, yet necessary component to the modern office. Though I would personally love to eliminate its use altogether, it remains so easy for anyone [...]
A few months ago we covered Modern Applications News Magazine’s announcement of going to an all digital format. We believed their attitude, their boldness and their leadership in taking another step toward the new direction of 21st century publishing was the right way to go. Well, we were wrong. And we’re “MAN” enough to admit [...]
The WD-40 Company is introducing WD-40 Trigger Pro – a non-aerosol product with the same WD-40 formula to better meet the needs of its industrial end-users. The latest innovative delivery system in the WD-40 brand product line, WD-40 Trigger Pro features an easy-to-hold ergonomic can and a multi-action nozzle that allows users to spray WD-40 [...]
“Speeds and Feeds” or “Feeds and Speeds”? Either way, here at CNCReport.com, we want to provide the best info to seasoned as well as new machinists in the industry. Now, we’re providing helpful tools to our readers as well. We’ve added a Feeds and Speeds Calculator to the site as our first of several featured [...]
Go ahead… keep buying those conventional drills after they burn up. OR, buy carbide tipped drills for better performance, longer life and lower ongoing cost. Sumitomo Electric Carbide, Inc. recently expanded the SMD replaceable carbide tip product line by adding an 8XD drill to their 3XD and 5XD lineup. The SMD nickel-plated body provides longer [...]
Pierson Workholding just added a new product demo video to their website. The Pierson Pallet Retention System is a manual pallet changer designed to maximize production by reducing idle-spindle time, speeding up setups, and putting more parts in the machine per cycle.
The new DT-1 from Haas Automation, Inc., is a compact, high-speed drill and tap machine with full milling capabilities. The machine features a generouse 20″ x 16″ x 15.5″ work cube and 26″ x 15″ T-slot table, while maintaining a very small footprint. A powerful BT-30 taper spindle spins to 15,000 rpm, and allows tapping [...]
It looks like a magazine, turns pages like a magazine and can even be delivered to your mailbox (email inbox) like a magazine, but beginning March 2009 Modern Applications News will no longer issue their magazine in printed form. Using technology from nxtbook media, MAN magazine will be delivering their same great content in digital [...]
In this week’s episode, host Jay Pierson gives his Top Ten list of Do’s and Don’ts for quoting jobs. He’ll cover everything from choosing which jobs you should quote to double checking your spelling and math! A special focus will given to users of MFGQuote.com. Be sure and tune in Sunday nights at 9pm central [...]
