When Quitting Smoking Leads to CNC Machining

Jon Gohr was a pack-a-day smoker for more than 20 years until he quit three years ago, thanks to electronic cigarettes. Gohr is a software developer by profession.  Several years ago, he discovered the Maker community and was hooked. “Electronics were the first thing that brought me into the whole world and idea of making things. It just seemed to fit with my technical background and software development experience. I’ve been doing small projects with Arduinos for quite a few years,” he explains.

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How to Make Money with Your Tormach: The Checklist

Anybody going into business for themselves has to weigh a lot of variables as they make decisions. Everything from business location to capital needed for launch to branding and logo creation.

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BattleBots Are Back

In case you missed it, the old TV show that pitted highly-engineered machines against one another in a ring of metal-mangling death has returned – BattleBots. Robotics are one of the first elements of science and technology that comes to mind when discussing STEM and its benefits – and what better way to discuss robotics than to have the machines fight to destruction?

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Tormach Gives a Skyward Camera Company the Competitive Edge

Time-to-market is a term that every engineer knows all too well, and every budding entrepreneur will soon know if they are just entering the marketplace.

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2nd Ops Success: Tormach PCNC 1100 Boosts Output in Texas Machine Shop

Don Breneman purchased a PCNC 1100 as an affordable secondary operation CNC mill to solve a costly bottleneck in his machine shop.  A standing order for oil and gas components was keeping his Haas VF2 busy around the clock, but each part required a serial number. The engraving operation for parts of varying sizes accounted for more than half of the cycle time on the single machine.  “Using an 8000 lb. machine for engraving is like killing a fly with a hammer,” he explains.  By offloading the engraving operation, Breneman felt he could free up time on the VF2 for higher-value jobs.

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It’s All About Fixturing

- Hot-Rodded Tormachs - Many of our customers are hotrod enthusiasts and vehicle customizers, but we have even more customers that are hot-rodding their Tormach machines. Tormach users are often owners of start-ups, engineering organizations, or even prototyping companies, which often leads to creating unique components and parts on their machines.

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