New materials, the need for lightweight parts and the burgeoning size of some aircraft challenge manufacturers of landing gear components. PLUS:
- The ins and outs of specifying and ordering a flexible specialty machine tool and having a machine builder produce it
- Ballsizing, lapping with wire and brushing are three simple and economical hole-finishing techniques that yield impressive results
- How to machine polymeric composite materials with single-layer diamond abrasive tools
- The benefits of minimum-quantity lubrication—which is suitable for many types of machine tools—are numerous
- Today’s Web-based training programs can get machine operators ready to cut metal before they ever lay hands on the real deal
- A parts manufacturer fi nds that brushing the cutting edges of tools with nylon bristles extends tool life, improves part quality and reduces manufacturing costs.