Let’s say you’ve recently bought a lathe and set it up in your shop. Maybe you’ve even gone and leveled it like a boss. You’re ready to make chips, right? Well, not so fast. As real ...

Ask anybody whose spent time standing in front of a mill or lathe and they’ll tell you that some operations can get tedious. When you need to turn down a stainless rod by 1/4″ in 0.030 ...

When turning wood on a lathe, each workpiece is mounted between the headstock (top) and the tailstock (bottom) with pointed attachments called centers. A drive center (aka a spur center ...

The Central Machinery 7-inch x 10-inch precision benchtop mini lathe is priced at $699.99 and the 7-inch by 12-inch version costs $100 more. At the time of writing, the mini lathe sold under the ...

The importance of the iron-cutting lathe to the Industrial Revolution is rarely appreciated. A number of ingenious lathe mechanisms can be traced back to the Middle Ages By Robert S. Woodbury ...

"Coordinates for the CNC Lathe" provides an overview of the coordinates used to program cutting operations on CNC lathes or turning centers. It introduces the systems of both Cartesian and polar ...

KURE, Hiroshima Prefecture--A massive lathe used to precision shape the main gun barrels of Japan’s mighty World War II battleship Yamato is now on public display at the Kure Maritime Museum here.

KURE, Hiroshima Prefecture--A massive lathe believed to have been used to fashion the main guns of Japan's mighty World War II battleship Yamato was in danger of becoming a rusting relic until a ...