Cold Work

A few weeks ago, I wanted to try electro polishing to expedite polishing for some difficult to polish alloys. As a result, I needed to make my mounts conductive while maintaining good edge retention to prevent bleed out during...

The other day, the bolts that held on my license plate had gotten rather rusty and I wanted to prevent the rust from staining the license plate (one of my pet peeves is a dirty car). Therefore, I took...

Sometimes it’s interesting to see what happens when you cut a material. For thin sheet metal, shearing is a common operation to get to a net or near net geometry. Shearing applies a shear force to the sheet metal...