Oil grooves are used to lubricate the inside of a bearing, and can come in many forms — from a single hole that takes a few drops of oil, to helical patterns that distribute it over the entir… ...

Grizzly Industrial on Nov. 2, 2023, recalled two models of Grizzly wood lathes and one Shop Fox wood lathe because the cutting tool may break off and become a projectile, according to a company ...

Tool Selection: Choose the longest part off the bar that will allow you to cut off your part from the original stock. Refer to our tool library and decide which size is correct. Make sure to check ...

The lathe itself is used to keep the workpiece in place and move the tool in a repeatable way. Rather than create a shaper jig from scratch, [John] decided to use his compound slide as the shaper ...

Facing off – this when the end of a metal bar is cut level so the end is flat; Parallel – this when the cutting tool cuts parallel to the centre to reduce the outside diameter; Chamfer ...

Turn the cutting tool upside down and reverse the machine’s spindle rotation. This creates a pulling force against the machine’s dovetail instead of a pushing one. • To cut a radius on the end of a ...

Screw machines are specialized automated metalworking lathes that were first developed in Switzerland during the late 1800s to produce ... and finally a cut-off tool to cut the finished screw ...