Lathes and Accessories

Lathes are used for cutting, sanding, knurling, drilling, deformation, facing, turning etc. Lathes rotate the workpiece on their axis for performing these operations. Lathes are used in various processes such as woodturning, metalworking, metal spinning, thermal spraying etc. Lathes are one of the oldest machine tools as they have been in continuous use in one form or other since antiquity. There is historical proof of lathes being used in ancient Egypt. Lathes are also known as mother of all machine tools as most machine tools were developed from lathes. Most modern lathes used in Industrial processes use computer numeric control or CNC as this offer a higher accuracy and precision than the one offered by older versions of lathes.