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'Those who cannot change their mind cannot change anything' Today, many shops believe the only way to increase throughput is to invest in more capital equipment, and the resources to run it all, which further increases overhead.   Not so fast; shops that consider all possibilities before running out to buy more equipment will often realize […]

TCI Precision Metals in collaboration with the National Tooling and Machining Association (NTMA) and Tormach has donated a Tormach, PNC 440 mill to the Downey High School, California Striking Vikings robotics team.  The new addition will help the team machine and fabricate their battlebot robots, which they enter into National Robotics League competitions. Read More...

To perform repetitive actions until your goal is achieved. Until now, I never considered the fact that we had such a great metaphor for hard work and achieving goals right here in our own shop.  Grinding seems like such a harsh term, but by providing repetitive product quality, and consistency in the way customers, employees, […]

Though slowing, Gardner Metalworking Index still showing growth According to the Gardner Business Index (GBI): Metalworking registered 51.6, marking growth, but at its slowest rate of expansion since 2017. Index readings above 50 indicate expanding business activity while a value of 50 indicates no change and a reading below 50 indicates contracting business activity. Prior […]

TCI Precision Metals will provide custom Machine-Ready Blanks to the National Institute for Metalworking Skills (NIMS), in support of the 2019 SkillsUSA National CNC Championship, June 24-28, in Louisville, Kentucky. NIMS will organize and run three CNC machining competitions during the SkillsUSA National Leadership and Student Conference. Talented high school and community college students from […]

When people think about trepanning they typically envision large, deep, round holes or hollowing of bar stock, but at TCI Precision Metals we provide a variation of trepanning, using plate stock, that we call Shallow Trepanning™. Typical trepanning is the process of drilling a large deep hole in a metal part leaving the core intact. […]

TCI Precision Metals, Gardena, California, in collaboration with the National Tooling and Machining Association and Tormach has donated a Tormach, PCNC 440 mill to the Downey High School, Striking Vikings robotics team. The new addition will help the team machine and fabricate their battlebot robots, which they enter into National Robotics League competitions.  Read More...

Gardena, Calif.-based TCI Precision Metals, in collaboration with the National Tooling and Machining Association (NTMA) and Tormach, has donated a Tormach PCNC 440 mill to the Downey High School Striking Vikings robotics team in Downey, Calif. The new addition will help the team machine and fabricate their battlebot robots, which they enter into National Robotics […]

Raptor-Ready Dovetail Blanks, produced for patented Raptor workholding fixtures, are available from TCI Precision Metals... The design adds a dovetail to one surface of the material before production machining. It locks securely into the workholding fixture, allowing the part to be fully machined on five sides. Once complete, the dovetail can be trimmed off, or […]

Many of the close tolerance Machine-Ready Blanks we produce at TCI Precision Metals are flat and designed to stay that way.  Demand for flat material that resists movement during machining is high for two reasons, one, part movement can turn parts into scrap, and two, creating flat material, on your shop floor, that resists movement […]