Intro Whenever an engineer puts together a technical drawing package for an outside machine shop, there’s a risk of overengineering. Something that looks perfectly reasonable on the drafting table can destroy your budget when it comes to CNC machining a part. Not sure where to…
Intro Urethane casting might be the perfect solution to your company’s problem. When it comes to affordable, fast, customizable products made in medium quantities, many people choose urethane casting. In this piece, we’ll explain what urethane casting is. We’ll include the process of making a…
Intro There has been a lot of confusion when it comes to the durometer Shore hardness scale over the years. Some people think it’s a measure of how flexible a part is, and people don’t understand how important the topic is. To help answer your…
In our shop, we’ve put a chromate coating on too many parts to count, and shipped them to companies across industries and applications. This is one of the most common coatings you can apply to a part, but we realized that a lot of engineers…
CNC machining is an accurate and streamlined way to traditionally machine complicated parts. Did you know that some CNC machines are even more accurate and can handle more complex parts than others? It all boils down to how many axes they have. In this piece,…
As an ambitious teenager in 1970s England, Terry Leary purchased and sold the car of his dreams - a 1936 Morgan Super Sport. A few decades, careers, and countries later, Terry has reunited with his dream car and painstakingly restored it with the help of…
Product development and prototypes are commonly handled in three different ways. Subtractive manufacturing - a person or CNC machine continuously cuts material away from a solid piece, such as metal. Injection molding - heated material is injected into a mold and can produce products in…
CNC Machining is a common process to produce complex parts. Whether you’re a manufacturing, mechanical or design engineer, you’ll often rely on CNC Machining to develop and manufacture a part. This guide is meant to help you understand the process and how you can benefit…
Metal fabrication is defined as the process of creating and building metal structures from raw metal materials. It involves cutting, shaping, bending, and molding metallic material into the desired final product. Metal-fabrication processes include everything from heavy machinery and equipment to simple hand railings. Specific…
Injection molding is a manufacturing process of injecting molten plastic materials into a mold and then cooling and solidifying them to create molded products. It is ideal for mass production of products with complex shapes and a huge part in the area of plastic processing…
Injection Molding Injection molding is a manufacturing process that involves the production of parts by injecting molten plastic into a mold cavity. The mold creates an exact replica of the product to be mass-produced. It is the most commonly used process to fabricate most plastic…
It’s not every day we get the chance to work with brilliant students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. When MIT STAR Labs recently approached us with a world-changing project that fights climate change and launches satellites into space, we jumped at the challenge. They…