Bar Stock

PRODUCT NEWS | 2025-06-17

TCI Precision Metals Introduces Automation-Ready Blanks

TCI Precision Metals introduces new automation-ready materials designed to help manufacturers increase machining throughput and improve precision and consistency part-to-part. The materials solution combines pre-production planning support, customized materials, and JIT materials logistics.

PRODUCT NEWS | 2025-03-10

TCI Precision Metals Introduces Custom–Cut, Ready–to–Ship Blanks

TCI Precision Metals has introduced custom-cut, ready-to-ship blanks. Customers can now order custom-sized, pre-machined materials that ship fast and arrive ready to go directly from receiving to finish machining. 

INDUSTRY NEWS | 2022-06-29

TCI Precision Metals Offers Machine-Ready Blanks at IMTS 2022

TCI Precision Metals will be showing its precision Machine-Ready Blanks capabilities to customers at IMTS 2022, McCormick Place, Chicago, IL, September 12-17, 2022, West Building, Booth #432123. 

GEAR TALK WITH CHUCK | 2019-01-30

From Co-op to Vice President: Octave A. LaBath

I was attending the University of Cincinnati in the college of engineering. After my freshman year in 1960, I started my co-op job with the Cincinn...

REVOLUTIONS | 2004-01-01

Revolutions

"Magnetic Filtration" and "Better Blanking from Bar-Stock"

TECHNICAL ARTICLES | 1995-07-01

How to Avoid Errors When Measuring Step Gears

There are problems in dimensional measurement that should be simple to solve with standard measuring procedures, but aren't. In such cases, using accepted practices may result in errors of hundreds of microns without any warning that something is wrong.

TECHNICAL ARTICLES | 1992-05-01

Gear Blanking

The term "blanking" refers to the initial metal cutting operations in the process planning sequence which produce the contour of a part starting from rough material. The scope of blanking is: To remove the excess material To machine the part to print specifications, except for those surfaces with subsequent finishing operations. To leave adequate machining stock for finishing operations. To prepare good quality surfaces for location and clamping of the part throughout the process.