Long before modern disintegrating links became standard, one family of machine guns experimented with surprisingly low-tech ammunition carriers. The result was a rugged, often awkward system that ...

Watch a powerful excavator equipped with a heavy-duty hydraulic shear working through piles of scrap metal at a recycling ...

Many interesting hands-on jobs are available for those who enjoy operating robots and computerized machinery in the vast manufacturing industry. Known as metal forming machine operators, these workers ...

Metal spinning machines are used in metal spinning (spin forming, flow forming), a process by which a metallic disk or tube is rotated at high speeds and formed into an axially symmetric part.

[SuperUnknown] has revealed a secret project he’s been working on. He’s cooked up an EDM attachment for 3D printers, or any CNC machine for that matter. Electrical Discharge Machining (EDM) is a ...

Microalloying—the art of adding incredibly small amounts of alloying elements (0.15% or less) to steel, and getting a big change—began in the late 1970s. It created a new category of forging steels ...