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unusual facts about lathe



Bobbin

Bobbin lacemaking is a handcraft which requires the winding of yarn onto a temporary storage spindle made of wood, previously bone, often turned on a lathe.

Eduard Petiška

Due to the Nazi occupation he was forced to work as a lathe hand in Volmanov's factory in Čelákovice instead of taking up his studies.

Line shaft

Ellenroad Ring Mill line shafting from a 6hp National oil engine drives a replica 1910 workshop with forge, power hammer, a lathe, radial arm drill and shaper.

R. K. LeBlond Machine Tool Company

The Johnson Press and Deka Drill service parts businesses were acquired from South Bend Lathe in 2001 and the South Bend Lathe and Dynablast parts businesses in March, 2002.

Seamless3d

In 2006 a set of specialised nodes for creating simple shapes such as: Sphere, Cylinder, Cone, Torus, Box and Bézier Lathe were added to make Seamless3d easier for the novice to quickly make simple models.

Shaper

Its cut is analogous to that of a lathe, except that it is (archetypally) linear instead of helical.

The Smallpeice Trust

The Smallpeice Trust was founded in 1966 by Dr Cosby Smallpeice, a pioneering engineer and inventor of the Smallpeice Lathe.

Theodorus of Samos

Carl Sagan, in the episode "The Backbone of Night" from his series Cosmos, claims Theodorus invented the level, the ruler, the key, the square, the lathe, and bronze casting.

Zeca Schall

In 1988, Fonseca arrived in Germany as a contract worker for Hildburghausen and trained in VEB Screws and Standard Parts Factory as a lathe operator.


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