In manufacturing, the devil is in the details—and the smallest oversight can lead to big headaches. Too often, it’s 4:30 p.m. on a Friday, you find out your trusted machinist is away on a fishing trip ...

When drilling very deep holes, it’s important to allow enough stock for clean up after a worst-case runout of 0.001 in. per inch. A part that is 180 in. long should allow more than 0.180 in. for clean ...

The straightness of a hole is a typical question in the course of any deep-hole drilling project. The industry standard guarantee for straightness is less than 0.001-in. run-out per inch given good ...

In the aircraft industry, where mechanical fastening of joined components is a necessity and the drilling of many thousands of holes per aircraft is, therefore, unavoidable, stacking the parts in ...