PODCAST – Chipbreakers
PMPA Speaking of Precision Podcast:
Chipbreakers
Miles Free, Carli Kistler-Miller, and David Wynn discuss the important factors that go into choosing the right chipbreakers for your operation.
Published May 26, 2025
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Published May 26, 2025
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Released February 22, 2021 Miles Free and Carli Kistler-Miller overview wear in your shop: how it’s determined and why it happens.
Any externally threaded fastener which has the majority of the design characteristics which assist its proper use in a tapped or other preformed hole is a screw, regardless of how it is used in its service application.
PMPA Speaking of Precision Podcast: Identifying ISO Workpiece Material Groups Miles Free, Carli Kistler-Miller, and David Wynn have a conversation centered around Identifying ISO Workpiece Material Groups, how important it is to your end result and how understanding the different material groups can improve your precision machining shop. Published November 4, 2024…
September 2020 Craftsman’s Cribsheet #87 A glossary of basic steel testing terminology. VIEW/DOWNLOAD
Why Should We Consider Manufacturing Analytics/IIoT Kevin Jones from Ectobox Help machine shops understand IIoT / Manufacturing Analytics and the potential solutions enough to make a determination of whether they should seriously consider IIoT or not. Manufacturing is moving towards needing to be more data driven to compete. However, companies struggle to understand if…
July 2019 | Craftsman’s Cribsheet #78 The straightness of cold finished steel bars, and all other barstock for our machines, is of critical importance. The controlling standard is ASTM A 108, Table A1.4. However, the standard errs in claiming the tolerances are measured by placing the bars on a level table and the depth of…