plunge cutting trenches on both sides to define rectangular milled traces. Requires two pass milling but prevents copper burrs compared to outline milling. Area Clearance Strategies Fitting path rasters, direction parallel passes or adaptive clearing patterns remove large copper zones efficiently while pre...
How to Anneal Stainless Steel to Soften It Q. I have some stainless steel blanks that I use for POW/MIA bracelets; they are about 2 mm thick X 7" X .5". The stainless is extremely hard -- is there a way to anneal the stainless to soften it up? I have a ceramic kiln I can ...
Titanium carbide films have found wide application in various tribological engineering devices owing to its excellent hardness and, therefore, wear resistance. To apply titanium carbide coating on various substrates, physical vapor phase deposition (PVD) and chemical vapor phase deposition (CVD) methods ...
No permanent damage, though the pain was absolutely incredible and the swelling was pretty substantial. Took several weeks for things to recover well enough. Fortunately that incident did not cause me to end up shooting blanks afterward Skateboarding stopped being a hobby of mine after t...
When the masking was done, it was time to etch. The coating comes off in an instant. I had also read that if you use Silicon Carbide (which we do) you had a good chance for devitrification, so again clean and scrub, and clean again. After the etching and cleaning we fire polished ...