Lathe Sentence Examples

The prince was working at the lathe and after glancing round continued his work.

A sheet of metal set revolving at a high speed in a lathe is bent over into cup-shaped forms, with numerous mouldings, by a blunt hardened tool.

In this photograph you can see the large faceplate of the long bed lathe.

Through the door came the regular hum of a lathe.

The nodules are penetrated by cracks,;but the material can be worked on the lathe.

For bowl turning the lathe will ideally have an outboard turning facility or a swing head.

Bowl turning will require a larger lathe than spindle turning.

The most important tool, however, is the bench or " chair " on which the workman sits, which serves as his lathe.

The difference in the appearance of brass and copper is familiar to everyone; brass is also much harder than copper and much more suitable for being turned in a lathe.

Motion in either direction is thereby obtained, and a considerable variation in the speed of rotation can be obtained by providing a cone pulley on the countershaft, which drives the cone pulley secured to the lathe E FIG.

The dimensions of the pulleys are generally so arranged that the return motion of the lathe spindle is faster than the forward motion.

The Boxford lathe with long base The four jaw chuck is an extremely useful addition to the standard three jaw type.

It was equipped to accept either the 3C, 4C or 5C collets supplied with the lathe.

Remove the assembly from the lathe and glue a short piece of 3/8in diameter dowel in the hole.

The smooth round shafts, slightly thicker in the middle, appear to be productions of the lathe, rather than vegetable stems.

He then presented an 8 Ash bowl blank to the lathe; first he turned the base with ease which included a spigot.

The treadle wheel lathe provided some members of the aristocracy with a hobby that some found as absorbing as any modern day turner.

Rumford then turned up a hollow cylinder which was cast in one piece with a brass six-pounder, and having reduced the connexion between the cylinder and cannon to a narrow neck of metal, he caused a blunt borer to press against the hollow of the cylinder with a force equal to the weight of about ro,000 lb, while the casting was made to rotate in a lathe.

The spindles to which the wheels are attached revolve in a lathe worked by a foot treadle.

This photo shows the dust extractor hose plugged into the collector on the lathe.

Cut from a plank and mounted on the lathe using a faceplate, stood well back and switched on the lathe.

Chase Screwcutting Accessory - an unusual fitting to find on a lathe already equipped with a full screwcutting gearbox.

From manual to CNC, Yorkshire Machine Tools has the grinder or lathe to suit all needs.

As the " Fifties " ended, Craftsman introduced this ball-bearing headstock, 12-inch wood-turning lathe.

Their range of rounders and trapping planes provide the means to do the job properly by hand or using a slow-speed lathe headstock.

Screwcutting lathe with 2.5-inch center height, 7 inches between centers.

The 10-inch lathe featured flat ways 1 1/2 inches wide with the edges of the central slot machined to guide the tailstock.

In 1935 the first Craftsman wood-turning lathe with the option of a metal-turning kit was marketed.

Jesse Ramsden developed the first satisfactory screw-cutting lathe in 1770.

A skilled machinist can be replaced by someone operating a computerized lathe.

At Little Lathe near Coniston there is a small meadow typical of unimproved northern hay meadows.

The third member of our team was English pole lathe bowl turner Robin Wood.

Site plan 14 POLE LATHE This has a springy pole and treadle mechanism and is used for green wood turning.

In working amber, it is turned on the lathe and polished with whitening and water or with rotten stone and oil, the final lustre being given by friction with flannel.

These have been skimmed lightly in the lathe with each wheel mounted on a tapered arbor.

In a moment of workshop exploration, I found a lathe, had a play and was immediately smitten.

The function used for the SOR object is similar to the splines used for the lathe object.

Jacking up the headstock and tailstock of a lathe is nothing new, as shown by this late 1920's machine.

This project requires a lathe and is probably best for experienced woodworkers.

Cannel is more compact and duller than ordinary coal, and can be wrought in the lathe and polished.

He then presented an 8 " Ash bowl blank to the lathe; first he turned the base with ease which included a spigot.

A single slot in the metal disk triggers a single electrical pulse in each lathe spindle revolution.

He has also worked as a shelf stacker, disk jockey and lathe operator.

The sphere is then coated with plaster or whiting, and when it has been smoothed on a lathe and dried, the lines representing meridians and parallels are drawn upon it.

Some lignites are, however, quite as brilliant as anthracite; cannel and jet may be turned in the lathe, and are susceptible of taking a brilliant polish.

The five modern lathes (Aylesford, St Augustine, Scray, Sheppey and Sutton-at-Hone) all existed in the time of Edward I., with the additional lathe of Bedding, which was absorbed before the next reign in that of St Augustine.

The large table covered with books and plans, the tall glass-fronted bookcases with keys in the locks, the high desk for writing while standing up, on which lay an open exercise book, and the lathe with tools laid ready to hand and shavings scattered around--all indicated continuous, varied, and orderly activity.

After a few more turns of the lathe he removed his foot from the pedal, wiped his chisel, dropped it into a leather pouch attached to the lathe, and, approaching the table, summoned his daughter.

When Princess Mary went to him at the usual hour he was working at his lathe and, as usual, did not look round at her.

A crystal lens, turned on the lathe, was discovered by Layard at Nimrud along with glass vases bearing the name of Sargon; this will explain the excessive minuteness of some of the writing on the Assyrian tablets, and a lens may also have been used in the observation of the heavens.

Being very brittle, the spar is rather difficult to work on the lathe, and is often toughened by means of resin.

The New English Dictionary suggests a connexion with "lathe," a term which survives as a division of the county of Kent, containing several "hundreds."

A common arrangement for driving a lathe spindle, in either direction at several definite speeds, is to provide a countershaft on which are mounted two fixed pulleys and two loose pulleys to accommodate two driving belts from the main shaft, one of which is open and the other crossed.