It’s common wisdom that the lathe is the essential machine tool, and the only one that can make copies of itself. While we won’t argue the primacy of the lathe in the machine shop, this ...

They say that if you have a lathe, you have every other machine tool too. To some degree, that’s true — you can make almost anything on a lathe, including another lathe, and even parts best ...

A few months ago, it was rare to see a machine guard on the building's lathes and drill presses ... the shop is a safety example. "The thing that has helped us most with safety is not a store ...