Skills

In this unit, you will work on the following skills:

➔Turning between centers

  • Using the tailstock
  • Center drilling
  • Lathe Dog

➔Compound Rest Tapers & Angles

  • Cutting chamfers and short tapers
  • Make a dead center with a shoulder

Content

Use these resources to learn the principles and procedures:

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Center Drilling

Cutting a Dead Center

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Tailstock & Turning Between Centers

Compound Rest & Cutting Angles

Project: Indicator Post

After completing the above, you will be ready to start on this project.

  1. 🔎︎Read: Blueprint
  2. ✎Write: Order of Operations
  3. ✦Make: Schedule Machine Time
  4. ✔Measure: First Article Inspection