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Model railroad product news including HO and N scales

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The cornice brake was indeed a thing of beauty. This restored one is currently on display at JMT USA in Salt Lake City.

Question: Why is a press brake called a press brake? Why not a sheet metal bender or a metal former? Does it have to do with the old flywheel on mechanical brakes? The

Roller coasters have been around for a very, very long time. But in the last 50 years especially, the Second Golden Age of the Roller Coaster has seen steel stretch into the sky. Year after year, decade after decade, the unthinkable continuously becomes real. Inversions. Launches. Switch track

Chances are pretty good that most of us have used a bench vise to do things far beyond its intended use. That’s understandable, as the vise may be the most powerful hand tool in many shops, capable of exerting tons of pressure with the twist of your wrist. Not taking advantage of that po

PHD announces the global availability of the Series GRM Size 0 as an addition to the industry standard GRM family of sheet metal handling clamps. PHD series GRM Clamps have the proven reputation of delivering “best in class” performance.

These clamps are compact and lightweight whil

Each of the OMS manufacturing locations has similar fabricating capabilities, but they also specialize in certain types of work and customers. The Pittsburgh facility, for instance, handles a lot of transportation-related work that requires large fabricated parts. Images: O’Neal Manufacturin

ISM hosted a tour that opened the Fabricators & Manufacturers Association Annual Meeting, held March 1-3 in Miami.

Five years ago the people at Industrial Sheet Metal, Hialeah, Fla., were immersed in old-school sheet metal fab, wielding metal snips and performing layout by hand. The job

Rob Koltz and Dave Meyer discuss the ferritic (magnetic) and austenitic (nonmagnetic) features of welding stainless steel. Getty Images

Q: I am welding a tank made of 316 stainless steel, which is nonmagnetic. I’ve started welding the tank using ER316L wire and found that the welds are

Is your workshop missing a metal bender? Well, you're in luck then.

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Is your workshop missing some tools, like a metal bending machine? Then, instead of buying a commercially made one,

Chicago Metal Rolled Products has 11 plate rolling and sheet rolling machines between its Chicago and Kansas City, Mo., locations. This 2- by 87-in. plate rolled into a 10-ft. ring with bevels on each ends and tack welded is one example of the work it does. Images: Chicago Metal Rolled Product