How to Level, Not Tram, Your Mill

Machinists are always looking for ways to improve their machining - whether that's work on their machine, taking classes, or buying new accessories. Tramming is one of the ways that manual machine (knee mill) owners use to re-establish a perpendicular plane from the spindle to the table, but that term has found it's way into the CNC world as well.

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Using Multiple Spindle Options

It’s fairly common to find machines that have multiple spindle options available. I don’t mean that you can specify multiple options, but that there are actual multiple options delivered with the machine.A very simple example would be multiple pulley ratios. More exotic would be sub-spindles, for example a high-speed auxiliary spindle or speeder on a mill.

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4 Simple Ways to Tap

The internet is rife with anxious machinists that are either iffy about their tapping techniques or they avoid tapping with any method beyond the familiar. Understandably so… taps aren’t always cheap and breaking one off in a hole will (at worst) ruin your part or (at best) waste hours of tedious work trying to get it out. While there is no easy answer to breaking a tap, knowing your options can help avoid breakage. So, here are four of the simplest ways to tap.

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RapidTurn: Origins

As the oft repeated adage goes, the design process is more often than not an evolutionary process rather than a revolutionary one. Nowhere is this more true than the case of our newest product, the RapidTurn.

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PCNC 440: For CNC Newbies (and Everybody Else Too!)

Last week, pre-orders started on our newest mill, the PCP 440. As a company, Tormach has always made strides to enable the ideas of our customers, and this new machine lowers the bar for entry into making real parts from real materials.

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The Power of the Tormach Tooling System®

The Tormach Tooling System (TTS) was developed as an affordable, quick-change solution for small milling machines. Many machine tool companies have proprietary tooling lines that can cost upwards of four to six thousand dollars (beyond the machine purchase) – this has long been considered a significant barrier to truly affordable CNC tools.

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