The boring bar is the backbone of the machine shop, so it must be extremely accurate. This S24,000 Rottier locates the block off of the main-bearing saddles to guarantee squareness. Many older boring ...

There are countless reasons for rebuilding an engine, and countless more directions to take the build once you’ve started, but for us the reasoning was simple. In short, our little small-block 302 was ...

EVERETT — Throw a brick in Snohomish County, and you might hit a machine shop. Well, not really, but the area has a depth of precision machine shops that few manufacturing centers can match. The shops ...

THE AMERICAN MACHINIST 2006 benchmark survey of the U.S. machine shop industry helped to uncover and determine shops that are using the ideas of systematic measurement and business improvement methods ...