Category: Fab Shop Tips

Increasing Your Vocabulary If you are looking to get into metal fabrication in general and bending on a press brake specifically, there are some terms you need to become acquainted with before you begin. While the basic concepts of this technology can be grasped fairly easily, without knowing the common industry language one can quickly […]

Beyond the Basics You’ve set up a small metal fabrication shop. Maybe you are running a very small operation out of your garage, or perhaps you are a welder who’s expanded into fab work to diversify what you can offer your customer base. In any event, you probably already have the basic machines: a band […]

PPE Is No Joke A few years ago, at a machinery dealer in the Western U.S. (not Revolution Machine Tools), signs started going up after a visit from OSHA, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. One employee, a member of the office staff, noted the “Don’t Forget Your PPE” sign at the entrance to the […]