In article , Tom says...

"Driving the boring bar with the carriage feed?" Yep when boring a hole.
To use the carriage feed requires the chuck rotating..

If you mean using the "carriage hand wheel" to reciprocate the carriage
rather than the carriage feed? Then yes, many times.

Carrige feed in this context obviously means using the
longitutinal feed for the carriage, aka handwheel.

Jim


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