This unique lathe technique allows you to make tapered plates without the need for a milling machine, an innovative method ...

Taper Turning on the Engine Lathe describes how to machine common types of tapers on an engine lathe. Cylindrical tapers are a uniform change in diameter on a cylindrical object and help to align and ...

When you think of making something using a lathe, you usually think of turning a screw, a table leg, or a toothpick. [Uri Tuchman] had a different idea. He wanted to make a clock out of the gears … ...

KURE, Hiroshima Prefecture--A massive lathe used to precision shape the main gun barrels of Japan’s mighty World War II battleship Yamato is now on public display at the Kure Maritime Museum here.

Roy Underhill shows how to use an 1889 foot-driven metal working lathe. Make your own darn metal screws with this 1889 foot-powered lathe! Roy shows how to cut perfect threads, cones and tapers in ...

Let’s say you’ve recently bought a lathe and set it up in your shop.Maybe you’ve even gone and leveled it like a boss. You’re ready to make chips, right? Well, not so fast. As real ...

A 1980 public television adaptation of the late Ursula K. Le Guin's novel, "The Lathe of Heaven," became a cult favorite despite its low budget and decades out of the public eye.

If you were making a bowling pin on a lathe and suddenly decided to make a baseball bat instead, the result would look something like the "torpedo bat" that is the talk of MLB's new season. After ...

Cameron Minshull, 16, was taken to hospital but died a short time later A businessman has been jailed for eight months following the death of a boy who became trapped in a factory lathe while on a ...