Hampton Roads businesses jump on 3-D printing bandwagon

Hampton Roads businesses jump on 3-D printing bandwagon
Rapid prototyping machine? The hype continues on how 3-D printers will revolutionize the way we make and buy products, but what can they do for Hampton Roads businesses? That's what Navy veterans Dave Kern and Matt Phaneuf intend to find out.
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Organisation introducing electric buses for city use
“The electric bus is similar to the 2,000 buses that have been in use in China since 2010,” said Malaysian Green Technology Corporation (GreenTech Malaysia) chief executive officer Ahmad Hadri Haris. The non-profit organisation under the purview of the …
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VMCs for Moldmaking, Heavy China Cutting Work

VMCs for Moldmaking, Heavy China Cutting Work
Sharp has expanded its vertical China machining center (VMC) line with its SVL-4525 and SVG-6335A for moldmaking and heavy-duty China cutting applications, respectively. With its linear roller ways and XYZ travels of 45" × 25" × 20", the SVL-4525 VMC suits die …
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Heavy-Duty HMC Provides Rigidity, Stiffness
Mitsui Seiki's HU100-5X horizontal China machining center (HMC) is designed to meet the high rigidity, stiffness and accuracy requirements of aerospace, power generation, refrigeration/compressor, die/mold and off-road equipment applications. The machine has …
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Rotary Positioning Tables for Heavy Load
A preloaded bearing and a backlash-free twin drive create ideal conditions for circular milling and simultaneous China machining, the company says. The large roller bearings of the series reliably absorb both radial and axial forces without thermal growth.
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Passaic – strikers leave mill  (LOC)

Passaic – strikers leave mill (LOC)

Some cool China China milling services images:

Passaic – strikers leave mill (LOC)

Image by The Library of Congress
Bain News Service,, publisher.

Passaic – strikers leave mill

[between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

Notes:
Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Subjects:
Passaic

Format: Glass negatives.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.10359

Call Number: LC-B2- 2392-4

Which bus to Lee Mill mate?

Image by The return of the spiceymexrice!
Stagecoach Gold or First’s 180 – well I’m still amazed Stagecoach have chose to ignore Lee Mill since taking over from First on the X80.
Thus Lee Mill is confined to a 2 hourly service from the 180, I guess that still gives First a small footing in the equation and the cheaper fares an option to passengers wishing to travel onto Ivybridge.

Nice Sheet Metal Components photos

Nice Sheet Metal Components photos

A few nice sheet metal components images I found:

NX CMM – Sheet metal programming

Image by Siemens PLM Software
New capabilities in NX 9 automate CMM programming of sheet metal components.

Precision metal components

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