Kent Industrial (USA) offers a wide variety of high-quality milling machines that are competitively priced in today’s marketplace. The KTM series of mills start with model KTM-3S (step pulley) and KTM-3VS (variable speed), both with a 3HP AC motor drive,...
Machine tool sales engineer Bob McLain has been in the industrial equipment and supply business longer than most of us have been driving cars. For the first four decades of his career, he worked for a well-known bandsaw manufacturer. After retirement,...
When I attended vocational-technical college, the instructors weren’t interested in teaching students how to operate the school’s tool and cutter grinder. Well, they might have been, but only those smarmy second-year Tool and Die students, which I was not. Fortunately...
If yours is like most shops, chances are good that a machine tool sales engineer visits on a regular basis. Probably more than one. The question is, do you trust them? Are they knowledgeable, or just fast talkers? If the...
Let me begin by stating I am not a machinist, nor have I ever operated a machine for a living. I’m that dirty guy who you hate to talk to, but love to call when there is a problem –...
Sinker EDM: Burning Where No EDM Has Burned Before Sinker EDM is a seemingly magical process. For example, what other machining technology can cut square internal corners, deep ribs and pockets, and paper-thin slots, all using a simple chunk of...
Centerless Grinders: Much Safer Than They Once Were When I was a boy, my father told me about his time operating centerless grinders. He worked at a machine shop while attending art school, and later became a commercial artist. In...
Cylindrical Grinders: Production Ready My brother-in-law was responsible for the shops’ two cylindrical grinders. Both were Myford model MG12-HPs, built in 1975. He bragged that he could hold a tenth all day long, no sweat, and he usually did. I...
Kent Industrial USA Inc. (KENT) plays a vital role in the supply chain for the Critical Manufacturing Sector with ongoing support for production in numerous crucial components used in the medical, food, defense and energy sector. During this crisis, KENT,...
Radial Arm Drill: Just the Ticket for Drilling and Tapping Big Holes One of my first jobs was operating a radial arm drill for a sheet metal fabricator in Minnesota. I made $2.30 an hour. The company’s since gone out of...
