In machining, a metal lathe or metalworking lathe is a large class of lathes designed for precisely machining relatively hard materials. They were originally...
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about that axis. Lathes are used in woodturning, metalworking, metal spinning, thermal spraying, reclamation, and glass-working. Lathes can be used to shape...
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Jacques de Vaucanson (category Lathes)
and 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...
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a CNC lathe. The metal spinning trade is one that dates back to antiquity and was a skill used in the Ancient Egyptian era. This is when metal spinning...
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Metalworking (redirect from Metal working)
piece. Frequently used to allow grip by hand on a metal part. Modern computer numerical control (CNC) lathes and (CNC) machining centres can do secondary operations...
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a Spirograph, in metal. No other ornamental lathe can produce these "rose" patterns. The decoration produced by a rose engine lathe is called guilloche...
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Henry Maudslay (section Screw cutting lathe)
foundation for the Industrial Revolution. Maudslay's invention of a metal lathe to cut metal, circa 1800, enabled the manufacture of standard screw thread sizes...
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and has the ability to set up tools such as milling machines, grinders, lathes, and drilling machines.[clarification needed] A competent machinist should...
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castings are used to make a metal lathe. The lathe is the first machine built since it can be used to help build itself. The lathe and foundry are then used...
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has one main spindle. Examples of spindles include On a lathe (whether wood lathe or metal lathe), the spindle is the heart of the headstock. In rotating-cutter...
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postage stamps Lathe (metal), a lathe used specifically for metals Lathe, used in turning wood, metals and other materials Rose engine lathe, a specialized...
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operate tools such as drills, lathes, mills, grinders, routers and 3D printers. CNC transforms a piece of material (metal, plastic, wood, ceramic, stone...
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of Nicolae and Stanca Dăscălescu. From 1937 to 1941 he trained as a metal lathe operator at a vocational school in his hometown, after which he started...
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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...
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included the slide rest lathe, screw-cutting lathe, turret lathe, milling machine, pattern tracing lathe, shaper, and metal planer, which were all in...
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Lath and plaster (redirect from Lathe and plaster)
weight, type of ribbing, and whether the lath is galvanized or not. Metal lathing was spaced across a 13.5-inch (340 mm) center, attached by tie wires...
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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...
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material from a block of metal to make it a desired shape. Fab shops generally have some machining capability, using metal lathes, mills, drills, and other...
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manufacturing the actual DMM cutting equipment as part of its VMS80 series lathes. The advantages of DMM (hard surface material) over acetate lacquer cutting...
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metalworking and woodworking, an automatic lathe is a lathe with an automatically controlled cutting process. Automatic lathes were first developed in the 1870s...
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Dog (engineering) (section Lathe dog)
as in a crash gearbox. A lathe dog (or "lathe carrier") is a form of clutch dog used to secure a workpiece to a metal lathe. The feed dogs of a sewing...
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A disc cutting lathe is a device used to transfer an audio signal to the modulated spiral groove of a blank master disc for the production of phonograph...
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in a large metal lathe, and the commutator resurfaced by cutting it down to a smaller diameter. The largest of equipment can include a lathe turning attachment...
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Turning (category Lathes)
a traditional form of lathe, which frequently requires continuous supervision by the operator, or by using an automated lathe which does not. Today the...
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most mechanically minded people with basic engineering tools, such as a metal lathe. Evolved from piston engine turbochargers, aircraft APUs or small jet...
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Woodturning (redirect from Turner's lathe)
distinguish woodturning and the wood lathe from the machinist's lathe, or metal-working lathe. Items made on the lathe include tool handles, candlesticks...
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Mandrel (category Lathes)
Molten glass may also be so shaped. A chuck is used on a lathe to hold pieces of wood, metal or plastic to be machined as they are turned. In this way...
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Machining (section Stages in metal cutting)
outside diameter. A lathe is a machine tool that can create that diameter by rotating a metal workpiece so that a cutting tool can cut metal away, creating...
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operated a side business machining hydraulic parts. Tony learned of a metal lathe for sale for $1000 and convinced the seller to accept a $125 deposit...
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astrolabe, and cartography etc., including, a screw cutting machine, a metal lathe and finishing rollers for sheep wool and silk factories. The production...
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