by Phil Kerner | Mar 17, 2017 | DRAWINGS / REFERENCE MATERIAL, Members Only: The Tool Room, Real Manufacturing Experiences
IF you sharpen your own end mills, then you're in luck today. Here's my chart from Anson Tools & Gages cutter grinding department from 1980...listing all of the common end mill sizes and when they've reached the end of their effective use. View or download the PDF...
by Phil Kerner | Mar 17, 2017 | DRAWINGS / REFERENCE MATERIAL, Members Only: The Tool Room
As most of you know, I work at a ISO 9002 Certified manufacturing facility. I have to give a lot of credit to the owners, who spend a ton of money keeping up with internal and external audits to keep their certification. One of the elements that we work on is...
by Phil Kerner | Jan 27, 2016 | DRAWINGS / REFERENCE MATERIAL, Members Only: The Tool Room
Several years ago, our plant dropped over $40,000 on a tool-presetter, mainly due to the fact that with over 100 folks running machines at various skill levels it made sense to standardize. Of course, this machine also measures run out and can work with both CAT 40...
by Phil Kerner | Jan 20, 2016 | DRAWINGS / REFERENCE MATERIAL, Members Only: The Tool Room
Here's another great project for your collection and belongs in every machinist's tool box: the sine bar. The challenge on this project is to hold the 5.000" dimension between the steps, and to grind the two "rolls" after heat treating them. Obviously they need to be...
by Phil Kerner | Jan 20, 2016 | DRAWINGS / REFERENCE MATERIAL, Members Only: The Tool Room
Besides parallels, one of the first things we used to build as apprentices were 1-2-3 blocks. They are a great way to learn how to get a matched set of blocks perfectly sized and perfectly square after heat treating. Depending on your skill level - and if you want...
by Phil Kerner | Jan 8, 2016 | DRAWINGS / REFERENCE MATERIAL, Members Only: The Tool Room
This is it for now...my last drawing from the archives. This style used to be popular for grinding pins in mold and die shops and includes a round cut-out for the head of most pins to be accomodated for while grinding. The drawing includes several different clamps...
