Full-Size: Unlike the benchtop mini and midi options, full-size lathes (also called floor lathes) are freestanding, with sturdy bases or legs that position your workpiece at waist height. Their ...

• Having trouble with chatter when turning or parting on a lathe? Turn the cutting tool upside down and reverse the machine’s spindle rotation. This creates a pulling force against the machine’s ...

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Turning is a metalcutting process used for the generation of cylindrical surfaces. Typically the workpiece is rotated on a spindle and the tool is fed into it radially, axially or both ways ...