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  • Thumbnail for Lathe
    facing, threading and turning, with tools that are applied to the workpiece to create an object with symmetry about that axis. Lathes are used in woodturning...
    42 KB (5,702 words) - 13:51, 13 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Metal lathe
    In machining, a metal lathe or metalworking lathe is a large class of lathes designed for precisely machining relatively hard materials. They were originally...
    35 KB (5,055 words) - 14:48, 12 June 2024
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    Woodturning (redirect from Turner's lathe)
    from the traditional turning shop. However, the wood lathe is still used for decentralized production of limited or custom turnings. A skilled turner can...
    32 KB (4,708 words) - 00:06, 22 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Turning
    phrase "turning and boring" categorizes the larger family of processes known as lathing. The cutting of faces on the workpiece, whether with a turning or boring...
    15 KB (2,057 words) - 17:12, 18 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pole lathe
    A pole lathe, also known as a springpole lathe, is a wood-turning lathe that uses the resilience of a long pole as a return spring for a treadle. Pressing...
    4 KB (639 words) - 21:48, 12 May 2023
  • Thumbnail for Rose engine lathe
    A rose engine lathe is a specialized kind of geometric lathe. The head stock rocks back and forth with a rocking motion and/or slides along the spindle...
    3 KB (395 words) - 16:26, 27 December 2023
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    foot stock, is a device often used as part of an engineering lathe, wood-turning lathe, or used in conjunction with a rotary table on a milling machine...
    2 KB (346 words) - 15:44, 22 April 2024
  • stages consisted of cold-hammering to unevenly harden the metal, then turning on a lathe to reduce the thickness, and then often a final cold hammering. The...
    12 KB (1,848 words) - 20:45, 23 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Engine turning
    Engine turning is a form of ornamental turning. The finishing technique may use lathes or engines to produce a pattern. Aluminium is often the metal chosen...
    5 KB (495 words) - 09:15, 1 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Diamond turning
    Diamond turning is turning using a cutting tool with a diamond tip. It is a process of mechanical machining of precision elements using lathes or derivative...
    10 KB (1,289 words) - 16:40, 6 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Geometric lathe
    introduced to combat forgery, and is an adaptation of an ornamental turning lathe. The lathe was able to generate intersecting and interlacing patterns of fine...
    1 KB (148 words) - 15:10, 28 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Automatic lathe
    metalworking and woodworking, an automatic lathe is a lathe with an automatically controlled cutting process. Automatic lathes were first developed in the 1870s...
    28 KB (3,903 words) - 07:44, 21 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Spindle turning
    Spindle turning, or turning between centers, is a woodturning method referring to a piece of wood on a wood lathe that is being turned on its center axis...
    1 KB (151 words) - 13:04, 20 January 2021
  • Thumbnail for Screw-cutting lathe
    A screw-cutting lathe is a machine (specifically, a lathe) capable of cutting very accurate screw threads via single-point screw-cutting, which is the...
    12 KB (1,525 words) - 22:12, 24 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lathe faceplate
    A lathe faceplate is a basic workholding accessory for a wood or metal turning lathe. It is a circular metal (usually cast iron) plate which fixes to the...
    3 KB (413 words) - 18:58, 18 May 2024
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    Jacques de Vaucanson (category Lathes)
    artist who built the first all-metal lathe. This invention was crucial for the Industrial Revolution. The lathe is known as the mother of machine tools...
    13 KB (1,429 words) - 15:00, 6 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lathe center
    A lathe center, often shortened to center, is a tool that has been ground to a point to accurately position a workpiece on an axis. They usually have...
    8 KB (1,068 words) - 06:04, 9 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Micro lathe
    diamond turning lathes exist, but have little in common with a desktop-style micro lathe other than form factor. The smallest CNC micro lathe was made...
    4 KB (449 words) - 14:51, 11 March 2024
  • Ornamental turning is a type of turning, a craft that involves cutting of a work mounted in a lathe. The work can be made of any material that is suitable...
    8 KB (1,219 words) - 10:51, 2 November 2022
  • Thumbnail for Copying lathe
    1700s Russian engineer Andrey Nartov invented a copying lathe for the purpose of ornamental turning, which allowed the operator to make ornaments with the...
    3 KB (409 words) - 09:01, 23 December 2023
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