A milling machine with over 15,000 hours is still grinding pavements across the fruited plain, and the men who manage it are determined to keep it going. The W 2200 from Wirtgen America is special for ...
Rick Royals bought a milling machine almost because he had to. The co-owner of Royals Contracting, a Raleigh, NC, paving, milling, and patching company, had bid a 4-inch-thick patching job in 2002, ...
Which to buy first, a lathe or a mill? It’s a tough question for the aspiring home machinist with limited funds to spend on machine tools, but of course the correct answer is a lathe. With a lathe, we ...
KBC Tools & Machinery marks 60 years of service with expanded 3 year warranty coverage on its flagship TUM series ...
It’s easy to assume that not much has changed with face mills for a while. There’s been so much attention on other milling processes over the last few years, and face mills, or shell mills, were ...
Modern milling machines look much the same as they did 30 years ago. However, they now must cut superalloys, titanium, and high-tensile steels to closer tolerances and at faster rates than before. To ...