The word transfer comes from the Latin transferre, meaning to carry ("ferre") across ("trans"). In fabrication, we not only transfer bolt holes, but we also carry our existing knowledge—conceptual and ...

If you’re planning to make a metalworking lathe out of a CNC milling machine, you probably don’t expect getting a position sensor to work to be your biggest challenge. Nevertheless, this was [Anthony ...

It’s a cliche that the only machine tool that can make copies of itself is the lathe. It’s not exactly true, but it’s a useful adage in that it points out that the ability to make big round things ...