Modern milling machines look much the same as they did 30 years ago. However, they now must cut superalloys, titanium, and high-tensile steels to closer tolerances and at faster rates than before. To ...

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Our correspondent writes with the new report of the following innovation: “Some times we have the need to machine three plane surfaces — A, B, and C. Surface A is perpendicular to Surface B, and ...