Milling

Shop Operations: The manual lathe is the cornerstone of any machine shop because almost all shop workers find themselves working on one when they start. The manual lathe has been called the "king of machines," for good reason. Some can be enormous; you can bet that if you need a forklift and a ladder to put a tool bit in the machine, some fun is bound to happen.

Shop Operations columnist Tom Lipton offers tips for enhancing the operation of a manual lathe in the April 2012 issue of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine.

The tangential cutting force and the cutting speed allow you to calculate the required machining power for an operation.

A new method for producing gears on mill/turn machines

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Shop Operations column as published in the July 2012 issue of Cutting Tool Engineering.

Shop Operations columnist Tom Lipton shares a few tricks for cutting threads on a manual lathe.

While it may have different names, groove milling can be an effective way to perform slotting and slitting.

Thread milling may seem exotic, but any shop can do it.

When drilling and milling, controlling runout is critical to maximize tool life and reduce cost per hole.