Friday, November 09, 2018
Nitriding is a heat-treating process that’s often used on steel to make it significantly stronger. It’s done by heating a piece of steel up in a furnace and then injecting ammonia into the mix, which results in nitrogen atoms dissolving over...
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Tuesday, October 16, 2018
We use graphite electrodes to EDM shapes into steel. Electrical discharge machining (EDM) is a manufacturing process where a desired shape is obtained by using electrical discharges (sparks). Material is removed from the work piece by a series of rapidly recurring current discharges between two...
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Tuesday, October 16, 2018
We machined a new Split Nuts with a buttress thread for a customer’s press in these photos. A split nut is a nut that is split lengthwise into two pieces. This allows the nut, when open, to move along the screw without the screw turning...
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Wednesday, October 10, 2018
Reverse engineering is a process that involves taking an existing part and figuring out exactly how it was made for the purpose of either duplicating it or finding ways in which to make it better. There are many advantages to using reverse engineering when producing...
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Friday, September 28, 2018
There are numerous processes to choose from when machining parts. One of the most effective and accurate methods is called sinker EDM or electrical discharge machining. It relies on the use of an electrically charged electrode that is configured with a specific...
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Thursday, September 27, 2018
In early 2015, we wrote a small blog piece on the impacts the Texas machining business was experiencing due to plummeting oil prices. Subsequently there were thousands of oil workers laid off and many industries took hits with some of them even going out of...
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Thursday, September 27, 2018
This is a plastic injection mold in process at our shop and this particular mold makes a ‘male cleat’. Lowrance Machine (a moldmaker) primarily sells products to companies that are in the rubber and plastics industries. ...
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Thursday, July 12, 2018
T-Seal Molds produced by Lowrance Machine. Lowrance Machine has manufactured hundreds of T-Seal molds. These molds produce an elastomer seal (a T-seal) that is usable in standard O-ring grooves. T-seals were originally developed to preserve advantages of O-rings in dynamic fluid power applications while ending two of their most serious...
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Friday, June 29, 2018
Last week we were notified by a customer in Missouri that a large parison rod that is part of a blow molding machine snapped/broke during production. This caused a major problem for our customer as it completely stopped production for this product. The size of...
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Wednesday, June 27, 2018
If you’re going to use an injection mold to create plastic parts, you need to come up with an effective cooling system to go along with it. Cooling your parts is actually one of the most important parts of the process. Here are some of...
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