by Phil Kerner | Oct 21, 2013 | Inspection, Members Only: The Tool Room, Milling, Set-Ups
I really hope that you guys and gals appreciate that I'm always looking for a new lesson, a new teaching point, or an "ah-ha" moment that will take you to the next level. The other day, a rather routine operation - for me - turned in to one of those moments that I...
by Phil Kerner | Oct 9, 2013 | Members Only: The Tool Room, Milling, Set-Ups
One of my Tool Room members, Tom Szepielak, just sent me a nice complete drawing of the "sub table" that I use for my Kurt vise. He asked me to please share this with all of my members, so here you go...just click on the link to download your copy. Thanks,...
by Phil Kerner | Sep 22, 2013 | Members Only: The Tool Room, Milling
In this first lesson on machining thin parts, I'll start by showing you the part and the challenges that it presented. One of the main things to learn in the machining world is to take a minute and think about your strategy is "before" you start whipping parts out of...
by Phil Kerner | Sep 22, 2013 | Members Only: The Tool Room, Milling
In this lesson, recorded "live" in the shop, I'll show you exactly how I went about milling the parts from the previous lesson to within .002" total parallelism.
by Phil Kerner | Jul 28, 2013 | Members Only: The Tool Room, Milling, Set-Ups
I know that I mention this quite often, but it's worth repeating: The video lesson that follows is direct result of me still doing this stuff every single day, and having to come up with quick and simple solutions to get the job done both accurately and as fast as...
by Phil Kerner | Jun 30, 2013 | Members Only: The Tool Room, Milling, Set-Ups, Shortcuts and Time Savers
It's kind of hard to believe that for 30 years, I never had to deal with machining any plastic. Now, I do it almost once a week. Here's one of my "tried and tested" methods.
