Discover the surprising power of a lathe in gear-making, as we demonstrate how to craft precise helical gears using just a ...

Running a metal lathe is not for the faint of heart. Without proper knowledge and preparation, these machines can quickly cause injury or destroy expensive stock, tools, or parts. The other major p… ...

I have a complete set of lathe gears and can thread just about anything I want (recently a 0.75″ x 17.25tpi for a particularly weird British speedometer cable) but I hate using the one threading ...

For longer and heavier tools, the MT100 and 120 store 8.202-ft-long, 330-lb boring bars in 18-station magazines and automatically change bars via a separate tool loader. An extra boring-bar slide is ...

George Schneider, Jr. CMfgE, is the author of Cutting Tool Applications, a handbook to machine tool materials, principles, and designs. He is the Professor Emeritus of Engineering Technology at ...

In the 19th century, The Gleason Works invented a machine tool capable of cutting hypoidal gears, using complex mechanical linkages to rotate cutting tools and the gear being cut simultaneously.