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

The engine lathe, operated manually, is composed of a bed, ways, headstock, spindle, tailstock, carriage assembly, and leadscrew. Workholding devices are attached to the spindle to hold the workpiece ...

The largest diameter workpiece that will clear the bed of the lathe. The center is the headstock spindle center. • The largest diameter workpiece that will clear the cross slide is sometimes also ...

Turn the cutting tool upside down and reverse the machine’s spindle rotation ... and can be locked at any setting. • I center a lathe tailstock by installing dead centers in the machine’s headstock ...

Let’s say you’ve recently bought a lathe and set it up in your shop ... One is for checking headstock-to-ways alignment, which is what we’re doing here. There’s another type used for ...

JET’s new 14” lathe is powered by a 1 HP, single phase, TEFC motor that delivers variable spindle speeds from ... is located on the front of the headstock. Speed changes are made by turning ...

Preben Hansen of Platinum Tooling walks us through the company’s high-performance accessory lineup for Swiss-type machining. From Henninger speeders reaching up to 80,000 RPM to adaptive guide bushing ...

The headstock rotates the work and the milling spindle presents the cutter to the work, just like a lathe. However, the milling spindle does not rotate, but instead is either locked, clamped ...