Every metalworker knows the struggle of dealing with chips and metal shavings that invade every nook and cranny of the lathe. Frequent cleaning is a must, but it's time-consuming and sometimes even a ...

[McKGyver] needed a few parts manufactured. Instead of going the normal route – finding friends with machine tools or paying a machine shop, he improvised a rudimentary metal lathe. The finished ...

You know you’re in for a treat when you are told that a lathe which can reach a resolution of one micrometer (1×10 −6, a millionth of a meter, or 0.00004″ for people who love zeros) is ‘not hard to ...