Let’s say you’ve recently bought a lathe and set it up in your shop ... Dial it in as close as you can in the four-jaw chuck. The more run-out we eliminate now, the quicker and easier ...

The owner's manual for each lathe indicates a working tolerance of 0.005 of an inch, automatic feed, and a chuck guard with a micro switch for safety. There are 18 thread settings ranging from 12 ...

But even still, attempting to build a functional lathe using scrap pieces from granite countertops is a new one for us. [Nonsense Creativity] has spent the last several months working on this ...

CNC turning is a subtractive manufacturing method (Removal of Material). Contrary to CNC Milling Lathe machining is for circular geometries (stock is commonly a solid/hollow cylinder) but a hexagon or ...