Let’s say you’ve recently bought a lathe and set it up in your shop ... Make your pass on both measurement areas, without touching the cross-slide in between. Stop the machine at the end ...

A manual lathe has dial wheels to control the feed of the main carriage and the cross slide to help take cuts on the workpiece. These feed wheels always have some backlash and require frequent ...

A tool holder is secured to a tool post using a quick release lever. In order to move a lathe cutting tool, the lathe saddle and cross slide can be moved by hand. Other turning tools are commonly ...

The STS uses a Diamond Tuning Lathe for fast, high-volume manufacturing of large departure freeform components. The tool holder of the STS is actuated (by the motion of its slide) in time with the ...