I am doing a job that requires sealing some thermocouples from water ingress by using a certain taper of pipe plug. The standard is .750" of taper per foot, the print specifically calls for pipe plugs that utilize .875" of taper per foot.
The particular hole that is being sealed is originally...
I am going to head out on a trip tomorrow to look over a 1996 vintage Supermax mill for my employer. It is from what I can tell by looking over the manuals for it, a virtual clone of an Enshu VMC-650 vertical mill. I am curious if in anyones experiences here this machine is worth having. It has...
You can probably put this into the catagory of snake oil/eye candy products. I had a good friend that was a manager of a local auto parts store until they were bought out by a big chain, and he used to provide me products like these to test in my E.T. bracket drag race car. The idea was that if...
The problem started after the PD14A N/C power supply went out in our Mazak Vertical Quality Center model VQC 20/50B, with a Mazatrol Cam M2 control. Before the power supply quit working, we could send the part program to the machine normally from the remote computer, but could not call the...
Tool steel has also been used. I also saw stainless mentioned once, but I'm not sure what application though.I would have to think that stainless would need to be run in a cylinder with some sort of a coating.
The most common materials are are either gray cast iron, or nodular iron with...