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- From The Fabricator
Designing and fabricating a wet bar countertop out of brass
- By Nick Martin
- Apr 19, 2022
- Metals/Materials
- Blog Post
Nick Martin of Barnes MetalCrafters details how he and his job shop designed and fabricated a wet bar countertop made of a material they rarely use: brass.
- From The Fabricator
Steel prices stall as demand from manufacturers begins to soften again
- By Michael Cowden
- Apr 18, 2022
- Metals/Materials
- Blog Post
Steel mills are seeing a possible softening in material demand from metal manufacturing sectors as HRC prices dipped in mid-April for the first time since the outset of the war in Ukraine.
- From The Additive Report
Writing the ‘good book’ of 3D printing
- By Kip Hanson
- Apr 16, 2022
- Additive Manufacturing
- Blog Post
Calling all additive manufacturing experts: The 3D-printing industry needs a bible. Get writing.
- From The Fabricator
How to clean a MIG welding torch
- By Josh Welton
- Apr 9, 2022
- Arc Welding
- Blog Post
In the first video of his new how-to series, In the Workshop, Detroit-based welder-fabricator Josh Welton explains the simple way to keep a MIG welding torch clean.
- From The Fabricator
Angst over steel tariffs continues to grow for metal manufacturing industries
- By Stephen Barlas
- Apr 7, 2022
- Metals/Materials
- Blog Post
Despite new tariff-rate quota agreements in place, U.S. metal manufacturers are still coping with high steel and aluminum prices.
- From The Welder
April is National Welding Month - be sure to thank a welder
- By Amanda Carlson
- Apr 1, 2022
- Arc Welding
- Blog Post
April may be National Welding Month, but welders have proven time and again, especially over the last two years, why they are essential and worth being admired and appreciated every day.
- From The Fabricator
Talkin' Shop with Metal Shop Masters: Episode 4, Seven Bailey
- By The Fabricator editors
- Mar 30, 2022
- Arc Welding
- Blog Post
In episode No. 4 of Talkin' Shop with Metal Shop Masters, we speak with Minneapolis-based Seven Bailey about their 20-plus-year career as a metal fabricator, AWS certified welder, welding inspector, educator, and artist.
- From The Additive Report
Things—and Thing-O-Matics—change in the 3D printer consumer market
- By Don Nelson
- Mar 28, 2022
- Additive Manufacturing
- Blog Post
How a desktop 3D printer for the consumer market from MakerBot called Thing-O-Matic has helped change the perception of 3D printing.
- From The Fabricator
When metal fabricators and welders enter the "Twilight Zone"
- By Josh Welton
- Mar 24, 2022
- Arc Welding
- Blog Post
There are crazy things that can happen while working in a fab shop. Then there are some truly mind-blowing situations that even the most veteran tradespeople have a hard time explaining. Detroit welder-fabricator Josh Welton shares two stories of welding weirdness.
- From The Fabricator
Recapping the 2022 FMA Annual Meeting: The value of in-person networking for the metalworking industry
- By Dan Davis
- Mar 21, 2022
- Metals/Materials
- Blog Post
Attendees of the Fabricators & Manufacturers Association’s Annual Meeting came together for the first time in two years to learn from leading metal fabrication industry authorities and from each other.
- From The Fabricator
Federal projects to require more domestic content, metal suppliers
- By Stephen Barlas
- Mar 16, 2022
- Metals/Materials
- Blog Post
Final changes to the Buy American Act will require metal fabricators working on federal projects to use U.S.-made metals.
- From The Additive Report
Additive manufacturing goes to war
- By Kip Hanson
- Mar 15, 2022
- Additive Manufacturing
- Blog Post
Blogger Kip Hanson reviews some of the ways 3D printing impacts war—and peace.
- From The Fabricator
War in Ukraine sends steel prices skyrocketing again
- By Michael Cowden
- Mar 14, 2022
- Metals/Materials
- Blog Post
The invasion of Ukraine means steel buyers will have to wrestle with even more pricing volatility in the coming months.
- From The Fabricator
Using social media to grow a side business focused on automotive aftermarket parts
- By Nick Martin
- Mar 11, 2022
- Metals/Materials
- Blog Post
For many small job shops, there aren’t enough hours in the day for marketing on social media. But Nick Martin of Barnes Metalcrafters explains how they are using it to push for more exposure for its side business fabricating aftermarket parts for the new Ford Bronco.
- From The Fabricator
Five years of rapid change at Industrial Sheet Metal
- By Tim Heston
- Mar 1, 2022
- Manufacturing Software
- Blog Post
FMA Annual Meeting opens with a tour of Miami-area fabricator Industrial Sheet Metal, which has undergone a dramatic transformation to advanced manufacturing in just five years.
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