When turning wood on a lathe, each workpiece is mounted between ... like a chair leg or spindle. With the help of calipers, a parting tool can carve these indicator grooves to a precise diameter ...

Montana State University students interested in crafting metals into machine parts will soon have access to a $2 million lathe that can cut spinning materials so precisely that its end products are ...

We see a lot of CNC Machines here on Hackaday but not too many of them are lathe-based ... A Hall Effect sensor is mounted to the spindle and provides spindle speed information back to ...

Shops that are machining blades for aerospace engines or making molds need CNC controls with high processing speeds to ensure the multi-axis interpolative moves are executed without hesitation.