If you do a lot of threading on a manual lathe, invest in a tool that accepts inserts. The inserts are precisely ground and easily changed. One insert cuts dozens of thread pitches. I learned how to ...

During the Industrial Revolution, significant advancements were made. In 1751, Jacques de Vaucanson created the first all-metal slide rest lathe, a precursor to modern designs. Henry Maudslay further ...

On cheap mini lathes, for threading different pitches of gears, rather than having a gearbox with some gear selector, one has to place different gears on posts on the lathe to gear reduce from the ...

Hi, I'm using GRBL on my lathe now, and am also interested in threading/spindle synchronisation. My lathe already has an encoder on the spindle for the RPM display, and I'm hoping to be able to do ...

Dubbed as the “mother of all machine tools”, the lathe was instrumental in the development of other, more sophisticated machine tools. The advancement of lathe technology also accelerated during this ...

This isn’t some ‘ slap on some steppers ‘ type of project, it’s a full-fledged build capable of tight tolerances and threading. The project is based on a 7×12 Mini Lathe.