by Donnie Hurt | Jul 1, 2015 | OPERATIONS
Thinking Outside the Book Is your business up to date on your Yellow Pages listing? I hope not! In the good ol’ days if someone in your area needed machine work they would turn to the yellow pages. How do DIYers find your shop today? – According to Yelp, 85...
by Donnie Hurt | Jun 1, 2015 | OTHER SHOP WORK
HONING-CUTTING OIL This helps save me money, time and storage space. Honing oil is not just for honing, it is a cutting fluid. I use it on taps and dies, for cutting lifter bushing and machining on my lathe. I also use it for surfacing aluminum heads on my CBN...
by Donnie Hurt | Jun 1, 2015 | TOOLING
QUICK CHANGE HOLDER Many of our company’s jobs are short runs, with setups that needed to be changed sometimes every two to four hours. Work holding setup time was something that became necessary to improve as our volume of work increased. By investing in a...
by Donnie Hurt | Jun 1, 2015 | TOOLING
Measuring Concave Objects If you need to measure a concave object such as a lifter or push rod and don’t have a ball mike, or don’t have one large enough, you can use a bearing ball in the concave part and subtract the diameter of the ball from the overall...
by Donnie Hurt | Jun 1, 2015 | OTHER SHOP WORK
CATERPILLAR DIESEL FUEL TIPS * It’s possible for a secondary fuel filter to suck air, but not leak fuel when running. * Hook a sight glass where you think the engine is losing prime. When the engine is not running, air goes up & siphoning goes to highest point...
