If you’re interested in making things (and since you’re reading this, we’re going to assume you are), you’ve almost certainly felt a desire to make metal parts. 3D printers are great, but have a lot ...

My idea is for creating hob teeth profiles directly on gear-milling machines to cut details such as gears, sprockets, gearbelt pulleys, straight-sided spline shafts ...

There is a second dimension to the gear making process, which opens new potential for the century-old technique. Mark Grizotsky of Thornhill, Ontario, writes: We discovered new possibilities in the ...

The BOMAG BM 2200/75 cold mill, using a 760-horsepower engine, can mill “half-lane” widths reaching to 86.6 inches at depths of to 13.8 inches. The machine can be fitted with a range of optional quick ...

The bulk of the milling machine market consists of half-lane machines weighing from 60,000 to 90,000 pounds and typically equipped with roughly 7-foot-wide cutting drums, which are powered by 600- to ...

It’s easy to assume that not much has changed with face mills for a while. There’s been so much attention on other milling processes over the last few years, and face mills, or shell mills, were ...