Because CNC machine tool spindles are essential to any drilling, milling, boring, grinding, routing, cutting, or sawing process, many manufacturers and machine shops rely on rebuilders to get ...

A division of Parker Hannifin, located in Otsego, Mich., was custom building machines for its own use, manufacturing brass fittings. Two such machines were rotary-index style and required 10 spindles ...

The old saying “you get what you pay for” is a cautionary cliché, but is directly contrary to several other common sayings. In the case of [Spikee]’s planned CNC machine build, he took the more ...

Downtime and production errors are two of the biggest challenges modern machine shops face. Even small interruptions in ...

When you’re operating a machine that’s powerful enough to tear a solid metal block to shards, it pays to be attentive to details. The angular momentum of the spindle of a modern CNC machine can be ...

Millennium Machining wasn’t always a mid-volume shop that primarily serves the automotive and heavy-truck industries. The 107-year-old business, formerly Hauser Company, was effectively a contract ...

What if I told you that one of the leading spindle failures has nothing to do with the spindle itself or the machine? What if I could prove it’s the tooling, not the spindle? One of today’s leading ...