A manual lathe has dial wheels to control the feed of the main carriage and the cross slide to help take cuts on the workpiece. These feed wheels always have some backlash and require frequent ...

Let’s say you’ve recently bought a lathe and set it up in your shop ... Make your pass on both measurement areas, without touching the cross-slide in between. Stop the machine at the end ...

The 7-inch x 10-inch lathe has 10 inches between centers whereas ... 4.5 inches over the saddle and 2.125 inches over the cross slide. The included three-jaw chuck measures 3.15 inches in diameter ...