July 18, 2022 Category: Locks & KeysAuthor: Chris Strauss Do Door Locks Wear Out? A door lock is a critical part of your door. It is one of the parts that you do not want to fail. If you have a quality lock, it can last for decades. So you should expect your lock to […]

Customers Experience the Economy of Quality As we approach 2020 planning season, we thought we’d debunk one of the more common budgeting myths in the machining industry. Shops often look to tooling as an opportunity to cut costs because they can be consumable, there’s variability in work, there are a lot of them around the

BIG KAISER’s Burley Pens Article on Micromachining for Trade Publication While more and more shops begin performing micromachining, cut specifications get smaller and smaller. This presents a challenge for companies trying to compete in the world of uber-small chip making with older machinery that’s not built specifically to meet the demands of modern customers. For

Mega New Baby Chuck 25N Capabilities BIG KAISER’s Mega New Baby Chuck has been delivering extreme precision for more than 20 years and is now available with up to ø1″ clamping for drills, reamers and finishing end mills with .00004″ runout accuracy. Our Mega New Baby Chuck is the industry’s highest precision and multi-purpose collet

Micro Manufacturing Need-to-Knows Sphinx product manager, Cory Cetkovic, once again took to the pages of Fabricating & Metalworking magazine to share some useful knowledge about micro machining practices, a challenging yet profitable and growing sector of metalworking. Advances in carbide tooling and spindles speeds have specifically made long-run production cycles accessible to more shops and thus more

Tips for Using the New Small-Diameter Rough Boring Solution from BIG Kaiser Before we get to some handy advice for using our newest boring solution, let’s run down the details of just what the MW Boring Head is. Adjustable insert holders with indexable inserts affix to a straight shank body to cover a diameter range

Join us on March 3 for a BIG-PLUS Demo For years we’ve been sharing the advantages of BIG-PLUS. Now see the BIG-PLUS difference for yourself. Join us March 3 at 1:00 p.m. CT for a 15-minute BIG-PLUS demo on the IMTS Spark platform. Click here to add to your IMTS Spark Planner today. Adopted by

Andretti Autosport team takes Indy 500 win The 101st edition of the Indianapolis 500 (Indy 500) took place on May 28, 2017. Takuma Sato, a professional IndyCar Series driver and member of the Andretti Autosport team, crossed the finish line first becoming the 69th winner by a margin of .2011 of a second. Sato became the first Japanese driver to win

Simplifying Tool Assembly We talk a lot about some of the products we offer that handle tooling while they aren’t on the spindle—and for good reason. In order for your expensive tooling to perform at the highest level and for as long as possible, how you treat them when they aren’t interacting with the part—whether