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Shop Solutions: Motorcycle Engines Get Electronic Makeover

Author: Edited by Senior Editor Jim Lorincz

Date: 5/1/2013

Cometic Gasket (Concord, OH), which got its start in 1989 in an 800 ft2 (74 m2) facility with limited production capability, today employs 50 and occupies a 70,000 ft2 (6503 m2) facility. Cometic supplies stock and custom gaskets for all kinds of motorsports, serving OEMs, NHRA, NASCAR, as a licensed product, and individual motorsports enthusiasts with gaskets for automobiles, watercraft, snowmobiles, stock cars and motorcycles of every brand.  Full Article

Becoming Jacks of All Trades



Author: Senior Editor James D. Sawyer

Date: 2/1/2013

"The key thing we’ve learned from being in business," said Brad Carney, a founder and owner of Carney-Echelbarger Machining (C-E; Kokomo, IN), "is that the more that we diversify, the better off we are."Along with his mother and father, Carney in 2004 launched what was originally known as Carney Custom Machining (CCM) in a building behind his parents’ house in Sharpsville, IN.  Full Article

Keeping Spindles Turning



Author: Senior Editor Jim Lorincz

Date: 10/1/2012

Innovative tooling technologies lead to improved productivity Full Article

To Swiss or Not to Swiss?



Author: Senior Editor Jim Lorincz

Date: 5/1/2013


Choices lead to machining solutions for most small complex parts Full Article

Five-Axis Machines Grow in Popularity



Author: Senior Editor Jim Lorincz

Date: 10/1/2012

The growing popularity of five-axis machining shouldn’t be a surprise. Manufacturers are becoming increasingly aware of the advantages of 3+2 positional or simultaneous five-axis machining of complex small and large parts. Full Article

Making an Old Workhorse New Again



Author: Editor in Chief Sarah A. Webster

Date: 5/1/2013

Compact Power Services is remanufacturing old Bullard VTLs, turning the hulks into “Elec-trols,” modern, efficient powerhouses Full Article

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