What is lathemachine and describe its main parts?

Answer 1

A lathe is a woodworking or metal working machine that rapidly turns the item to be lathed, A blade is then brought to the item in the case of wood a chisel can be used by hand and in the case of metal the blade is held in a specially made jig , the blade slices away metal until the round shape required is acquired. An example of an item that can be made on a lathe is a Baseball bat.

Answer 2

A lathe is a woodworking or metal working machine that rapidly turns the item to be lathed, A blade is then brought to the item in the case of wood a chisel can be used by hand and in the case of metal the blade is held in a specially made jig , the blade slices away metal until the round shape required is acquired. An example of an item that can be made on a lathe is a Baseball bat.

Answer 3

Lathe is a manufacturing machine, used to machine metals.

Its main parts are :

a) Headstock

b) Bed

c) Tailstock

d)Carriage

carriage has the following parts, saddle,steady rest(compound rest) cross slide and toolpost.

Headstock is the source of power, it has all gear mechanism for multiple speeds.It is fixed on left side of lathe bed. tailstock is free to move over the inner ways of the lathe bed.it help to acomodate workpiece of various length.Tool is fixed on the toolpost and it is fixed to the cross slide, it gives the tool cross feed.Tool post is fixed to steady rest and it is fixed to saddle.

Answer 4

It's a machine for threading and it's called Lathe Machine