Machining a 5 /8-in. 2 aluminum flange took Amherst Machine Co. in Amherst, Ma., only 4.5 min, but it required 26 steps and five manual setups on two different machines. All this handling time ...

The lathe is known as the King of Machine Tools for a reason. There are very few things that you can’t make with one. In fact, people love to utter the old saw that the lathe is the only machine tool ...

A Romi M27 lathe machines large feedscrews for meatgrinding machines at Rome. Rome Ltd., a Sheldon, Iowa, meat grinder machine manufacturer, scrapped its manual engine lathes and decided to turn large ...

Rathburn Tool was founded by current company president Angie Holt’s father in 1983. Today, the company has 32 CNC machines (half are lathes and half are milling machines), and works with the heavy ...

I have been a long-time lurker over at OWWM.org, a forum dedicated to the love of old woodworking tools, and its sister site, VintageMachinery.org. After my 9-year-old son watched a few woodworking ...

The emergence of 3D printed open-source lathes marks a significant milestone in the development of cost-effective machine tools. By ingeniously combining 3D printing technology with concrete casting ...

If you’re planning to make a metalworking lathe out of a CNC milling machine, you probably don’t expect getting a position sensor to work to be your biggest challenge. Nevertheless, this was [Anthony ...

Can small shops succeed with advanced machine tools and software? If so, how do they do it? Read on to learn the strategies that have helped Midway Swiss Turn, our 2025 Top Shops Honoree in Shopfloor ...