Harbor Freight's mini benchtop metal lathes are a powerful option for at-home machinists. Who manufactures Harbor Freight ...

If you want to do this, there’s a great discussion about wiring a lathe on this practical machinist thread. Besides getting the motor to run, to get this lathe working even a little, I needed a ...

(Credit: Clickspring) We commonly tend to associate lathes with the Industrial Revolution, when metalworking shifted largely from blacksmiths to machinists, but the use of lathes is much older ...

Amazing process of making and boring a taper gear pulley on a lathe machine combines precision and skill. Starting with raw ...

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 ...

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 ...