and a V8 cylinder head was used for the cross slide. The tailstock seems to be the only non-automotive part on the machine. We’d love to see a video of it in action, but there are ample pictures ...

Iron pipe bearing hubs are crafted using lathe machines that turn raw metal into high-performance components. The process ...

The machine rotates the wood and the user uses a variety of chisels to shape the wood by moving the chisels along a tool rest. A metal lathe is like the wood lathe in the type of shapes it can ...

It’s common wisdom that the lathe is the essential machine tool, and the only one that can make copies of itself. While we won’t argue the primacy of the lathe in the machine shop, this ...

Expert manufacturing of screw rods using lathe machines in local factories is a precise and fascinating process. It begins with carefully selected raw metal, which is then placed in a lathe machine ...

Instead of spinning the tools, a lathe will spin the stock material to a high rpm and then remove the material using a static tool. Unless a more complex system of live tooling or synchronous machine ...

A lathe is a machine tool used to curve metal and parts. Imported from Germany in 1938, it was used at the Kure Naval Arsenal and is the only large machine tool associated with Yamato that ...

KBC Tools & Machinery announced that the KING KC-1440ML-2 14x40 lathe with a digital readout (DRO) is now available for ...

KURE, Hiroshima Prefecture--A massive lathe used to precision shape the main gun barrels of Japan’s mighty World War II battleship Yamato is now on public display at the Kure Maritime Museum here.