With a lathe, we are told, all other machine tools can be built ... bench grinder pedestal and surplus steel tubing. The spindle motor is from a paint sprayer and the Z-axis power feed is a ...

a 3/4-ton Chevy truck axle donated the spindle, and a V8 cylinder head was used for the cross slide. The tailstock seems to be the only non-automotive part on the machine. We’d love to see a ...

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 ...

Air Turbine Technology Inc., the leading manufacturer of revolutionary high-speed turbine spindles, introduces a ...

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.