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

If they are different, the machine is cutting a taper, which means your bed has some twist. Adjust or shim the lathe’s tailstock-end feet a little bit and make another cut. A larger tail-end on ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...