Category: How To

Your fiber laser may well be the most complex—not to mention the most expensive—piece of equipment in your fab shop, but it could also be the most neglected as far as regular preventative maintenance goes.

In Search of a Flawless Bend There’s no such thing as a perfect press brake bend—but a skilled fabricator can get very, very close. The key is to resist the temptation to attempt shortcuts, instead of methodically moving through a sequence of steps that involve careful checking, adjusting and checking again to ensure everything is […]

Time to Upgrade You’re a fabricator working on old equipment that you know isn’t very efficient and suspect may actually be a death-trap waiting to be sprung. How do you convince your boss that just maybe it would be a good idea to upgrade to a new, more up-to-date machine? You could try kicking and […]