Published November 2011
By PMPA Staff
Corey Steel Company is a leading manufacturer of cold-finished steel bar.
October 2012 | Craftsman’s Cribsheet #2 You meet all of the requirements of the standard with your audit program, but is it becoming a cumbersome fact collection process without a whole lot of difference or creativity between audits? Here are a baker’s dozen of tips to take your audit program to the next level of…
Released September 12, 2022 Miles Free and Carli Kistler-Miller talk about all you need to know – and why you need to know – about Bessemer Steel in your shop.
Dimensional changes after heat treatment are a result of crystalline structure changes and are usually less than an eighth of a percent in linear dimension. Warpage is usually the result of bad practices in process including rapid heating, overheating, non-uniform heating, non-uniform cooling,non-uniform agitation,and water contamination in the quenching oil.
Choosing steels with higher hardenability (alloys rather than plain carbon steels), finer grain size, and paying attention to the details of loading, time at temperature, and quenchant delivery are all steps that can minimize warpage distortion, even when part design is less than optimum.
May 2014 | Craftsman’s Cribsheet #21 Here is a checklist for selecting materials for making parts by precision machining: VIEW/DOWNLOAD
Published April 2016 By Miles Free III The commercial demands of keeping our shops busy, machines up and running and employees working means that many of us spend just enough time to get the job to the floor, but no more. VIEW ARTICLE
Recorded: April 17, 2023 at National Technical Conference in Cleveland, OH. Speaker: Derek Briggs, Tsugami America Who would benefit: Setup, Machinists, Estimators, Engineers, Foremen, Leadmen, Operators Experience track: Mastery Description This session focuses on fundamentals of Swiss — type machining, the capabilities that set Swiss apart from standard lathes, and common misunderstandings when transitioning from…