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T.G.I.M!!!!

T.G.I.M!!!! If you plan to cut parts on your CNC router this week, remember… If you are having trouble holding your parts properly somebody may tell you that you need to upgrade to a larger vacuum pump on your CNC vacuum table. That same person may tell you that if your ice cream is melting, that … Read more

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CNC Collaboration with CR Onsrud

A big “THANK YOU” goes out to the team at CR Onsrud, Inc. for hosting All Star CNC and Head Coach Mike Murphy in town a few months back. We were asked to collaborate on some videos together, designed to educate customers on the importance of gasket and how crucial it is in getting the maximum performance … Read more

grid gasketing

MORE VACUUM OR MORE GASKET?

What Can You do to Improve Your Vacuum’s Performance? You can’t turn your vacuum up to 11, but you can hold parts more securely using gasket! There are two modes of thought using gasket. First is using our Grid Gasket to seal the bottom perimeter of your porous spoilboard or dedicated fixture. This will help … Read more

OnBoard Gaskets Example

Eliminate Leak to Improve Vacuum

Helping Made In America, one shop at a time. This Northern Nevada customer was so happy with the Laguna Tools CNC Router they had been using for all these years, that they recently added a 2nd Laguna to the shop for more capacity. As happy as they are with their machines, work-holding with vacuum can still prove … Read more

InBoard Gasketing

RAISED DEDICATED FIXTURE

We cannot thank my customers enough who allow me into their shops and observe their Made In America operations. This customer has three Komo Machine, Inc. routers running in their facility. They have been using our gasketing solutions for over 15 years and they were excited to show us their raised Dedicated Fixtures using InBoard Gasketing (our … Read more

clamping

How to Improve CNC Vacuum Clamping

Why do we loose small parts on a CNC Router? Why do we leave tabs that need clean-up later? Why do we have to make two passes or more on some parts? Is it the router’s fault? Absolutely not. We know the router is capable of because it can make all of our other parts. … Read more

Guitar Jig

Guitar Jig with Woodshop Mike

Thank you to Woodshop Mike (https://www.instagram.com/p/CYTp2o-qysn/) who does a great job of making how-to videos to the woodworking world. Now that he has a ShopBot CNC in his shop, vacuum clamping has become a necessary subject to address. Luckily he found us and we were able to send various gasketing products to him in order … Read more

Cut in Less Time

Cut Parts in Less Time

This customer called us because they wanted to make more parts in less time. This customer called us because they wanted to make more parts in less time. They were able to do this when they were able to eliminate the need to do onion skins / tabbing on the part, and the necessary work … Read more

Working on Gaskets

Eliminate leakage and improve Vacuum Hold-down

A high-end toy manufacturer running a Techno CNC was having trouble holding their repetitive parts using their old spoilboard set-up. A high-end toy manufacturer running a Techno CNC was having trouble holding their repetitive parts using their old spoilboard set-up. We told them you need to make an air-tight dedicated fixture for those repeat parts. … Read more

Cover Gaskets

Coach’s Corner: Cover Gasketing

In this video Coach Mike will walk you through the various step, tips and tricks to maximize the use Cover Gasketing products. Coach’s Corner: Cover Gasketing In this video Coach Mike will walk you through the various step, tips and tricks to maximize the use Cover Gasketing products. We developed Cover Gasketing for customers that … Read more