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Milling a keyway on a lathe can seem tricky, especially when dealing with a machine that lacks an automatic feed. This video ...

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A lathe wouldn't work, so we did the job on a CNC milling machine equipped with an old lathe headstock. Several spherical-shaped mold inserts with varying radii around 1 in. in 0.010-in. increments ...

It lets users easily make high-precision lathe parts on their milling machine. Many businesses don’t have a CNC lathe because of the expense, infrequent need, or space restrictions.

If you have a CNC machine, lathe, or mill and like to use plastic blocks for prototyping the material cost can add up quickly if you're prolific or make a lot of mistakes. Consider using ...

Historically, every shop had about the same level of technology – generally a lathe, vertical mill and grinder. To stay ahead of the competition, job shop owners and manufacturing engineers needed to ...