September 2022
Craftsman’s Cribsheet #110
PMPA’s Speaking of Precision podcasts can be found on major platforms or on PMPA.org. The list below of podcast resources for Safety and Regulatory podcasts:
Released August 2, 2021. Miles Free & Carli Kistler–Miller review the 6 ways cold finish bars can lose their straightness as well as identifiers to look for to find and solve the problems when bar straightness problems arise in our shops!
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.
Get An Edge – Paint Your Edge! By David Wynn Published Issue May 2023 https://www.productionmachining.com/articles/craftsman-cribsheet-no115-paint-your-edge-to-gain-an-edge View Cribsheet This is not a discussion of children coloring their coloring page inserts from a children’s book. I am literally asking how many of you out in the shop color your carbide inserts. If you…
Released October 24, 2022 Miles Free and Carli Kistler-Miller discuss the term workmanship and the four aspects that go into assuring successful transactions between supplier and precision machining shops.
Guest post by Jeff Wiltsie, Vanamatic Company It’s time for a reality check. Congress authorized the administration to spend hundreds of millions of dollars of stimulus to keep unemployment from reaching 8% which is now at 10%. The real unemployment rate is estimated to be as high as 17% when you include the people that…
Defeating the Hanging Cross-Hole Burr (A Dave & Davey Video) By David Wynn Published Issue September 2023 View Cribsheet Deburring is a tedious task that is better left to machines.