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February 24, 2009
Metal Spinning 101
Figure 1 Metal spinning is used to handle a variety of workpiece sizes, from the very small to workpieces with 20-ft. diameters.
Without metal spinning, motorcycle parts and car wheels wouldn't be so easy to make. Neither would gas bottles, cooking pots and pans, or myriad components in... Read more...
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June 16, 2008
Unfolding truth about flats
Gerald Davis is a job shop consultant and chair Three-dimensional CAD software provides great power to generate flat layouts of sheet metal parts with just a click of a button. But as Uncle Ben told a young Peter Parker in Stan Lee's "Spider-Man" saga, "With great power there must also come... Read more...
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June 1, 2008
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May 1, 2008
Machined-part modeling in 3-D CAD
Almost anything can be built. Clever machine tool manufacturers offer solutions for even the most challenging manufacturing problems. Sometimes, however, manufacturing resources are limited. What sorts of things should CAD designers consider when modeling parts that are intended to be easy... Read more...
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April 10, 2007
A new spin on metal forming
If you traveled all over Minnesota looking for a spinning shop, you'd likely overlook Glenn Metalcraft Inc., a fabricator located in out-of-the-way Princeton. If you thought that spinning was good only for prototype and low-volume work, you'd likely overlook this shop, which has carved out a... Read more...
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November 9, 2004
Selecting a tube cutting process
Tube fabricators use a variety of methods—sawing, lathe cutting, rotary cutting, supported shear cutting, dual-blade shear cutting, and laser cutting—to cut tubing from mill lengths into shorter pieces for use in final fabrication. No single method is optimal for cutting the... Read more...
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