Working on the lathe: drilling and boring PART 2

Continued from p.85 M.E.4759 December 27 Drilling in the lathe To drill a precisely central bore that is perfectly aligned to the cylinder wall, the lathe cannot be surpassed. It is the engineered slideways of the lathe that underpin such precision and also enable a quick setup time. Apart from the difference in orientation, the procedure for drilling metal on the lathe is quite similar to drilling using a pillar drill or a milling machine. The method described here is, in fact, applicable when using most machine tools for drilling. To drill a component in the lathe, the drill bit can be held either in a chuck (collet chuck or jaw chuck) mounted onto the lathe spindle and more commonly in a Jacobs chuck or a quick release chuck positioned…

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