A few months ago we made the decision to upgrade the EDM shops’ welding system from an oxyacetylene torch to a TIG (Tungsten Inert Gas) welder. For the past 6 years all necessary welding has been done with the oxyacetylene system. While OA is suitable for many situations, we feel it doesn’t offer the ease of use and kind of control a TIG system can provide and moving to the…
Inertia (i-nûr sh ) n. A law of physics states that “an object at rest tends to remain at rest, and an object in motion tends to remain in motion.” Scientists call these tendencies inertia. Inertia is a way of measuring how hard it is to change the momentum of an object, whether that’s getting it to speed up or getting it to slow down. That depends on how much…
What could possibly be better than rolling out of bed in the morning
One of the ways we judge the performance of the products we evaluate is by looking at lap times. Nothing else provides such a clear and simple answer to the question “will this product make me go faster?” It either does or it does not, plain and simple. While not all products can be subjected to this kind of by the numbers testing, most can. The trouble with this is,…