When turning wood on a lathe, each workpiece is mounted between ... like a chair leg or spindle. With the help of calipers, a parting tool can carve these indicator grooves to a precise diameter ...

The lathe is controlled by an old Pentium 4 computer ... A Hall Effect sensor is mounted to the spindle and provides spindle speed information back to Mach3 so that it can time the step commands ...

A general RC Vehicle electronic speed control and a servo tester work in conjunction to manually regulate the spindle speed. Check out the bench test video and an exploded photo after the break.

Shops that are machining blades for aerospace engines or making molds need CNC controls with high processing speeds to ensure the multi-axis interpolative moves are executed without hesitation.

Montana State University students interested in crafting metals into machine parts will soon have access to a $2 million lathe that can cut spinning materials so precisely that its end products are ...