“So just like every other great story in history, ours is going to start at the lathe.” Truer words were never spoken, and thus begins the saga of turning a bar of chrome-moly steel into a shop-built ...

A look at a shop-made big boring bar put to the test in the workshop. This video highlights the machining setup, precision ...

Boring is a mass-reducing process of enlarging a hole that has already been drilled or cast. The process is used to achieve greater accuracy of the diameter of a hole, and can be used to cut a tapered ...

Boring, also called internal turning, is used to increase the inside diameter of a hole. The original hole is made with a drill, or it may be a cored hole in a casting. Boring achieves three things: ...

A digital caliper’s zero function enables the user to take compound measurements, producing a result that would otherwise require arithmetic or a second tool.

A new Trimill milling machine with a five-axis head has enabled aerospace and defense shop Votaw Precision Technologies to take work it wouldn’t have previously considered.