The main mechanical tools in a hacker’s shop used to be a drill press and a lathe. Maybe a CNC mill, if you were lucky. Laser cutters are still a rare tool to find in a personal shop, but today’s ...

"I wanted to create an improved tool for cutting round aluminum caps for pipes," said an inventor, from Rocky Mountain House, ...

Sometimes tool-designers must design complicated profile milling cutters to complete a machining task (see above sketch, 5.) If a profile is no more 10 mm (0.3937 inches) deep, some designers make ...

The Coast Guard awarded three preliminary design contracts for the service’s new Offshore Patrol Cutter last week, the service announced. Bollinger Shipyards in Lockport, La., Eastern Shipbuilding in ...