As Seen In Fabrication & Metalworking. Precision blanks from TCI Precision Metals eliminate the need for in-house sawing, grinding, flattening, squaring operations and outside processing. TCI Precision Metals (Gardena, CA) offers high precision machine-ready blanks capabilities. “TCI Machine-Ready Blanks help shops increase throughput up to 25 percent, allowing them to ship finished parts fast and […]

As Seen In Modern Machine Shop. Machine-ready blanks will be available for next-day delivery. Fastenal (Winona, Minnesota) has entered an agreement to distribute TCI Precision’s machine-ready blanks through its stores, printed catalog and website. The blanks are available in 6061 aluminum, 304 stainless and 316 stainless, milled and ground to tolerances of ±0.002". Located in […]

As Seen In Fabricating & Metalworking. Machine-Ready Blanks are available through Fastenal in 6061 aluminum, 304 stainless and 316 stainless. TCI Precision Metals (Gardena, CA) recently announced an agreement with Fastenal to distribute TCI Precision Machine-Ready Blanks through its more than 2,600 stores, printed catalog and online sales at Fastenal’s website. “Machine shops and other […]

As Seen In FF Journal News. TCI Precision Metals today announced an agreement with Fastenal to distribute TCI Precision Machine-Ready Blanks through its more than 2,600 stores, printed catalog and online sales. “Machine shops and other custom precision manufacturing companies realize cost-saving benefits from using custom Machine-Ready Blanks, especially in terms of decreased cycle times […]

As Seen In Industrial Distribution. Gardena, CA - TCI Precision Metals announced an agreement with Fastenal to distribute TCI Precision Machine-Ready Blanks through its more than 2,600 stores, printed catalog, and online sales at www.fastenal.com – Go to Products/Raw Materials/Precision & Raw Blanks/Tight Tolerance Blanks. “Machine shops and other custom precision manufacturing companies realize cost-saving […]

As Seen In MCADCafe'. TCI Precision Metals today announced an agreement with Fastenal to distribute TCI Precision Machine-Ready Blanks through its more than 2,600 stores, printed catalog and online sales at www.fastenal.com – Go to Products / Raw Materials / Precision & Raw Blanks / Tight Tolerance Blanks. “Machine shops and other custom precision manufacturing […]

TCI Precision Metals, Southern California has been providing manufacturers with precision machineready blanks for the past 57 years. There are still many successful shops who do not know what machineready blanks are exactly, or if and when they should be considered. The following is meant to shed light on the subject and provide some thought […]

Motto of the Month President's Corner Adding Another Key Distributor for Our Standard Blanks Line McMaster-Carr W.W. Grainger MSC Industrial Supply Amazon ...and now Fastenal Over 50 years ago, we began offering the service of providing cut-to-size material to customers’ exact specifications. More recently, in the last 20 years were offered the opportunity to provide […]

As Seen in Modern Casting Magazine, Page 43. Big Quality and Efficiency Best Practices for Machining Large Cast Parts Machining large parts, especially castings, is not for everyone.  The generalization ‘parts are parts’ does not apply in this case.  To be proficient requires commitment to constant process improvement, equipment evaluation and investment.  And to top […]

Motto of the Month President's Corner Winning in Workforce Development How many times have we heard shop owners complain about training their workers only to see them leave to work for other shops or even start their own businesses? If you're like me, the answer is "plenty." But what if we didn't train our machinists? […]