It’s easy to assume that not much has changed with face mills for a while. There’s been so much attention on other milling processes over the last few years, and face mills, or shell mills, were ...

Despite its ‘high feed’ classification, Ingersoll Gold-Quad F facemill handles deep cuts as well. Usually machine shops have more than an obvious reason to make improvements on the big jobs. The ...

Roughing in progress. Despite interrupted cuts, the new Ingersoll-TEDI mill CD cartridge facemill plows through cast aluminum twice as fast as ICI tooling. In one of its first U.S. high-volume ...

The latest episode “Made in the USA” podcast explores a company that uses collaborative robots, one of the key tools helping US machine shops and other manufacturers compete with lower cost countries ...

Milling machines, also known as cold planers, complete the same task today as they did 30 years ago, but they have seen several innovations over the years and are continuing to evolve. It was actually ...

The bulk of the milling machine market consists of half-lane machines weighing from 60,000 to 90,000 pounds and typically equipped with roughly 7-foot-wide cutting drums, which are powered by 600- to ...

Which to buy first, a lathe or a mill? It’s a tough question for the aspiring home machinist with limited funds to spend on machine tools, but of course the correct answer is a lathe. With a lathe, we ...