Lee Wimmer invited us to tour his second-generation family-owned machine shop in Perkasie, PA. This video explores the production processes behind precision-machined parts for both Wimmer Custom Cycle ...

Chiron Group combines the best of both worlds at IMTS 2024, featuring live demonstrations of their Micro5 and Mill 2000 machines, alongside a cutting-edge virtual showroom. This innovative approach ...

We’ve seen quite a few scratch built lathes here at Hackaday, but none quite like the handcrafted pole lathe put together by [Jon Townsend] and his band of Merry Men as part of their effort to ...

Machining centers can be horizontal or vertical in design. There are several multi-axis machine tool programs that can provide turning results from roughing and grooving to threading and finishing, ...

It’s common wisdom that the lathe is the essential machine tool, and the only one that can make copies of itself. While we won’t argue the primacy of the lathe in the machine shop, this ...

Researchers at the Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) in Qatar have investigated the potential of bifacial east-west-oriented vertical PV installations for mitigating soiling in desert climates ...

Lathes are machines for turning and forming materials. This is usually done by removing material to form a shape, or drilling and cutting to create threads. The lathe is driven by a motor that ...

KURE, Hiroshima Prefecture--A massive lathe used to precision shape the main gun barrels of Japan’s mighty World War II battleship Yamato is now on public display at the Kure Maritime Museum here.

Sooner or later, you’re going to be pushed (or led, depending on your perspective) toward vertical systems by government incentives. “The world is asking farmers to fight climate change by ...

The vertical bar character (|), located over the backslash (\) key, is used as an OR operator. In the C/C++ language, two vertical bars are used; for example, if (x ...

What are the differences between cab types? A regular cab only has one row of seats and limited interior storage, while an extended cab has two rows of seats and also comes with small secondary ...