Choosing & Using the Right Metal Shop Lathe

Richard Rex has worked on lathes and milling machines since his teen years in a home shop, and later on a variety of production machines (his current home shop setup has a 12" x 36" lathe and a Bridgeport mill). More recently, he has set up several engineering lab model shops from scratch, with the usual complement of Hardinge lathes and Bridgeport mills. Richard worked for 10 years in product marketing management with Hewlett Packard and Brown Boveri in the UK. In the US, he has been CEO of several engineering/manufacturing companies. In recent years he has written and illustrated many manuals and tech bulletins for a machine tool distributor in Pittsburgh.

Ch. 1: Choosing a Lathe; Ch. 2: Turning Tool Basics; Ch. 3: Add-Ons to Make Life Easier; Ch. 4: Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me; Ch. 5: Cutting Screw Threads on the Lathe; Ch. 6: Machinist’s Precision Level; Ch. 7: The Self-Centering Chuck; Ch. 8: Knurling; Ch. 9: Add Versatility by Indexing the Spindle; Ch. 10: Making a Tailstock Drill Press; Ch. 11: A Toolholder for Easy Screw Cutting; Ch. 12: Making a Precision Grinder for Lathe Tools; Appendix: Really New to All This?