I entered the Army in 1988 as a military occupational specialty (MOS) 44E (machinist) under the Army Civilian Acquired Skills Program. Since I had received industry standard manual machinist training, ...

Some Jobs Just Can't Be Done Efficiently Any Other Way. Big, heavy and usually involving only one or two parts describes the manual jobs at Parker Machine works. Onesy-twosy manual jobs at Sterling ...

The Allen key turns 115 this year. It’s strange to believe that in all that time, no one has come up with an adjustable version, but apparently true. Luckily [Chronova Engineering] has taken up the ...

Brent Smith from Salt Lake Community College School of Applied Technology tells us about their Manual Machinist program. Manual machinists set up and operate a variety of machine tools to produce ...

Karol Ziecina, a machine specialist at Atlas Precision Manufacturing in South Windsor, Conn., prepares chuck top tooling on a 32-in. diameter, 3-jaw manual chuck. Royal Machine & Tool Corp. designs ...

This family-owned factory owns 60 patents and developed innovations for screw manufacturing quality control so far ahead of its time that it took decades before it was accepted. But this is a business ...

CNC machine tools are getting ever more affordable for the amateur machinist, and they’re an enabling technology for many projects. But you’ve got to respect the old school approach to turning hunks ...

HEIDENHAIN is a world-leading provider of encoders, machine controls, touch probes, digital readouts and metrology solutions—empowering engineer...READ MORE James Disney, who sold his CNC machines to ...