Ingenuity is the name of the game with manual machine tools. You often have to get creative to use the tools you have to create the part you want. That’s exactly what happened when [John] needed to ...

PMC-Colinet uses the custom-angle head on a Monarch VMC to produce keyways in the bore on oilfield pipe, typically 6 inches in diameter and 12 inches long. On one part, PMC documented a savings of 184 ...