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Tormach Staff Recommendations: Stop-Loc Setup Tool
Here's a great little device to speed up setup tasks in the shop: the Stop-Loc Setup Tool. Tormach Tech Advisor Rory has two of these in his own shop and, in his own words, "I use them all the time, man!" Obviously, the Stop-Loc isn't a replacement for a precision ... More
Fab Lab Skill Builder: Swing Indicating, Part 1
Swing Indicating may be "old hat" to more than a few readers of this blog, but we find in our CNC Fundamentals Workshops that many new and self-taught machinists have never used the technique before. Here's a brief Fab Lab tutorial on how to indicate the center of a hole. The ... More
Fab Lab Skill Builder — Boring Head Basics, Part 2
Here's part 2 of our Boring Head Basics video, OD turning Want the tool? You can purchase our TTS Boring Head here. A few points to highlight here: A) OD Boring requires the spindle rotates counterclockwise (M4 command) in most cases, since the majority of boring bars having tooling geometry oriented for that ... More
Fab Lab Skill Builder: How to use a Sine Vise
By customer request, we've added a few smaller vises to the e-Store: 50mm Toolmaker's Vise Screwless Toolmaker's Vise (34mm, 45mm, and 74mm) 50mm Sine Vise To purchase or see more details about any one of these vises, click here. And just in case you needed a quick refresher or are new to Sine Vises, here ... More
Eliminate the Haze with the Fog Buster
Tormach has partnered with FogBuster to bring the best mist (actually, zero mist!) coolant system to the Tormach eStore. If you've used other misting systems before, you surely understand how quickly they can fog up the entire shop without a serious ventilation system. For a small garage or basement shop, they're ... More