With CNC machines, getting the best results depends on knowing how fast your tool is moving relative to the workpiece. But entry-level CNC routers don’t often include a spindle tachometer, forcing the ...

Modern machine tools continue to make technical advances, thanks in large part to ongoing improvements and fine-tuning in computer numerical control (CNC) machining. Over the past 60 years or so, CNC ...

A 3-mm ballnose cutter re-roughs a 50 Rc H13 toolsteel mold at 15,000 rpm and 120 ipm. High speed spindles are application specific, sophisticated, delicate and expensive. Here is how one manufacturer ...

Levicron specializes in the production of high-speed ultra-precision motor spindle solutions for CNC machining. Where its main focus has been on the manufacturing of optical and precision components, ...

Just about every machinist in the United States has encountered an older Hardinge turret lathe during the course of his career. These little machines, commonly referred to as “second operation lathes, ...