Category: Machine Tools

Multiple Methods of Metalworking Metal fabricators and machinists are two vastly different creatures. Not to say they couldn’t go out for a friendly drink together, but they have very distinct ideas regarding how someone should properly go about shaping raw metal into a finished part. Perhaps the only thing they completely agree on is how […]

“Finishers Wanted” The 1902 newspaper ad read, “Finishers Wanted — First-class finishers for architectural wrought-iron work.” As long as there has been metalworking, there has been metal finishing, though the concept of finishing has existed much longer than that. Early craftsmen found that once a device or dwelling had been constructed there was still additional […]

Taking Your Tube ’Round the Bend Pipes have been around for a long time. Egyptians were using copper pipes 5,000 years ago. Working with pipes has always been a straightforward affair—literally. Pipes, tubing, and conduits run in straight lines and traditionally have been rerouted by connecting lengths of them with fittings of some sort, such […]