Ignoramus16317 wrote:


Some things you can do with lathes are, making various conical shapes,
making threads, drilling holes along the axis of rotation, etc.

i

IIRC I've heard more than once that, "The lathe is the only (common)
machine tool which can reproduce itself." - With a little help from a
human.....

Given that you can turn, drill and mill with a lathe and some proper
attachments, I suppose that's true for the machining steps.

Though I wonder if say a 36" lathe would have enough capacity to handle
the parts needed to make another 36" lathe or whether you could only
make a smaller size lathe on it. Sort of like most living things, except
that baby lathes don't get larger as they grow older, huh? G

Jeff

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