Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “engineering”
Recently I printed a couple of puzzles from Thingiverse to take to work and frustrate my colleagues. For some of them the puzzles were relatively easy. Others are still frustrated by them. Now that I’ve tested my coworkers it looks like some of them need me to ramp up the challenge a notch, so I’ve started designing a few puzzles …
An interesting process that creates a very useful hole in metals is friction drilling or flow drilling. Rather than using a fluted drill bit to cut a hole, friction drilling uses a conical bit coated made of a high heat-resistant material from the ceramic family to form the hole. In this process the bit is pressed into the target body …
I love to see what is really happening at the interface of a cutting tool and there is no better way to see it that slowing down a high-speed video. Ingersoll Cutting Tools have once again made a high-speed video of one of their tools in action. This one is their Quad Drill+ cutting a half hole in 1018 mild …
A quick video of some CNC lathe operations to make an egg shape in 6061 aluminium.
Watching a multi function machining centre do its work can be mesmerising. Here is 8 minutes and 40 seconds of chips and swarf flying courtesy of Machined Component Systems. A series of lathe and milling operations are show on what I am guessing is mild steel. It was nice of them to turn off the machining fluid for us to …
Stratasys shares how Rutland Plastics utilises Polyjet 3D printers to make jigs and fixtures for their operation in this video. According to Rutland Plastics’ engineer Simon Grainger, by manufacturing their jigs and fixtures using a Stratsys Objet350 Connex 3D printer they save time and money when compared with the alternative of machining them from wood, metal or plastic. It also …
Carl Sommer takes us through a progressive die operation and discusses some single station press operations in part 2 of his Introduction To Tool And Die Making.
Carl Sommer shares some of his knowledge on tool and die making. He talks mainly around progressive die operations in this video.
Sandvik Coromat show the process for gear milling with one of their tool sets in this video. They show both spur gear and helical gear manufacture through the steps of rough cutting, bottom profile cutting and shaping the involute tooth profile.
This video from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers takes us through the fundamentals of dies and processes used in the sheet metal stamping operations. The video looks at single and multiple station stamping operations. Single Station Stamping Processes Compound Dies – used for only shearing operations such as cutting and hole punching. Combination Dies – combines shearing operations with forming or shaping operations in a …
