No Longer Hanging by a Thread

Threading is a vital operation wherever a machined workpiece is going to be screwed to other components as part of a larger assembly. In other words, threading is often a vital operation.

CNC has expanded the options available for threading and also reduced some of the frustration, as this article describes. Among the options is thread milling. Among the frustrations that are now less frustrating is getting thread milling’s feed rates right.