Zala Machine

07/07/2025

An interesting part to work on. Hardened Alloy Steel Turning

The mostly complete machining process of a Hardened Threaded Sleeve. The customer drawing calls this part a Shell, but it is for the Oil Refining Industry. S...

06/11/2025

Somewhat difficult to program a 15mm wide thread with an 8mm wide Radius Tool. But........We got it done.

Turning of a large cable drum on our Okuma LB4000EX. The final groove width was 15mm wide full radius of 7.5mm. Threads grooving operations with an 8mm Sandv...

06/05/2025

Some extreme turning on our Okuma CNC Lathe

CNC Turning and some deep hole drilling of a Steel Cylindrical Mold on our 2 Okumas the LB4000EX for turning and the Millac 761V for the drilling. We made cu...

06/02/2025

Some nice machining of a bronze casting on our Mori.....

Complete 5 axis milling of a bronze casting on our Mori Seiki NTX 2000. We turned the main ID bore on a lathe and then machined a simple fixture with 1/2" bo...

07/05/2022

This one will be push us to the limits. No Worries!!!

A very heavy and involved part we are starting on. First operation drilling with the largest drill we have that could handle the job. 48 1/2" thru. This w...

08/10/2019

Deep CNC Drilling

Some deep gundrilling on this adapter for the plastics industry. Three different ports with deep flow bores. Found the correct drill in a pile of old drills....

07/31/2019

Over the last few years we been getting more and more large CNC parts so I decided to make myself a custom tool holder I call the "Rail". So far this tool ha...

07/31/2019

Love when these type of jobs come through the shop. Customer sent in a drawing from 1972 asking for a quote with no casting available and no model. I modeled...

07/31/2019

Large CNC lathe drilling on our Okuma LBX using a Kennametal HST 4.0" Drill. I've drilled thousands of holes with this drill in many different materials. Fro...

07/31/2019

Plastic prototype CNC Turning on the DMC DL-30 Turning Center. They particular type of plastic cuts very well and even some of the tight tolerances were easy...