Wednesday, April 26, 2017
Electrical discharge machining, which is also known as spark machining, is a process that involves removing particles from metal by utilizing electrical discharges that form between an electrode and a piece of metal. This method of reshaping metal melts and vaporizes metal chips and washes...
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Tuesday, January 17, 2017
Lathes and mills are two types of machinery that are often used to cut and refine metal components into final shapes for a wide variety of purposes and applications. While lathes and mills can perform similar jobs, they go about it in two very different...
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Wednesday, January 04, 2017
Do you want to make the surface of a metal component harder or increase its temperature resistance? If so, one of the best ways to do it is through the process of heat treating. Heat ...
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Monday, December 19, 2016
Metal plating is a process that can help improve products that are manufactured out of metal, glass, plastic and other materials. By using either electroplating or electroless plating, the process can be carried out to give products...
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Monday, December 12, 2016
Do you want to make a piece of metal, glass or even plastic appear as though it is made from gold, silver, copper, platinum, tin, lead, nickel or some other metal? Perhaps you need to plate one material with another as part of a certain...
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Tuesday, November 22, 2016
Does your company need help with custom molding services? At Lowrance Machine Shop, we specialize in providing our clients with the resources they need to create custom molds. We will work with you to figure out exactly what kind of mold you...
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Wednesday, December 30, 2015
Machining helps make everything from prototypes to brand new parts. When it comes to how it’s done, however, there are some differences in opinion. While most people think that CNC machining is better, others say that manual machining is still supreme. So who’s right? There is no definite...
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Wednesday, December 09, 2015
When you own a business, you want to make sure you do what you can to have everything go right the first time, regardless of the situation. So if you have a machine and one of the components breaks, you would do what you can...
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Friday, October 16, 2015
A market component driving down oil prices may surprise many privy to the market. An inordinate number of oil producing countries aren’t responding to the market climate and continuing production as normal. This despite the plummeting price of the resource thanks to...
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Tuesday, October 13, 2015
Tough times continue in the oil market. With prices having dropped once again to below $47 per barrel, after briefly jumping 3% as a conclusive overreaction, estimates show price per barrel to dip well into the thirties, even. Though...
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