I drill on a lathe using a special auto-feed method that produces better accuracies and surface finishes as compared with manually feeding drills. The results are often comparable to those of reamed ...

Make sure you fashion the ring so that it rotates and can be locked at any setting. • I center a lathe tailstock by installing dead centers in the machine’s headstock and tailstock, then bring the ...

Preben Hansen of Platinum Tooling walks us through the company’s high-performance accessory lineup for Swiss-type machining. From Henninger speeders reaching up to 80,000 RPM to adaptive guide bushing ...

He carved a head and tailstock from a 2 x 4 ... coping saw, drill, and a Dremel tool, of course. Without this mini lathe, all of these tiny wood pieces would have to be carved by hand.