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Hello all! I have a Haas SL20T lathe. I am trying to take a .050" deep face cut a piece of Freemax 45 material, (which I have never used before) and it keeps stalling out the spindle. I am using an RPM of 200, (only because I have an 8" chuck and am clamped on a piece of material that is 10.25"...

MFG Poll What strikes me as sad is that if you take away the 3 votes on the poll for people that have not, and probably will not use MFG.com... that gives you a percentage of 74% that says it sucks.

Thank you all for your replies. I guess the sad thing for me is that I have bid on one job from this site compared to hundreds on MFG.COM and have received more feedback from the one that I bid on from this site than I ever have from MFG.COM. Is there a way to cancel a membership to MFG.COM...

Has anyone used or know anyone that has used MFG.COM? We are currently using it at our shop for the past 3 months and feel that it's the biggest rip-off we have ever encountered. In the past 3 months we have quote an enormous amount of RFQ's and not had any feedback what so ever. We have not...

Good morning all! I am new to this site and was wondering if anyone can offer some friendly advice. We are a small machine shop in northeast Ohio with a very low shop overhead and can produce very high quality parts whether it be one-offs or larger quantities. We also have trucks available to...