It’s common wisdom that the lathe is the essential machine tool, and the only one that can make copies of itself. While we won’t argue the primacy of the lathe in the machine shop, this ...

We see a lot of CNC Machines here on Hackaday but not too many of them are lathe-based. [Jim] sent us an email letting us know his dissatisfaction regarding the lack of CNC Lathes and ...

Step into the incredible process of making silage machines comes to life using lathe machines. Skilled workers carefully shape and craft every component with precision, turning raw materials into ...

Lathes are machines for turning and forming materials. This is usually done by removing material to form a shape, or drilling and cutting to create threads. The lathe is driven by a motor that ...

It introduces the systems of both Cartesian and polar coordinates and describes how Cartesian axes are used on a CNC lathe. The class describes both how coordinates are used on blueprints and how they ...

A lathe is a machine tool used to curve metal and parts. Imported from Germany in 1938, it was used at the Kure Naval Arsenal and is the only large machine tool associated with Yamato that ...

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 ...

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 ...