Turn the cutting tool upside down and reverse the machine’s spindle rotation. This creates a pulling ... To cut disks out of aluminum using a lathe, I chuck the aluminum blank in a 4-jaw chuck or ...

The 110-mm chuck allows machining of pre-formed, forged or extruded parts of up to 80 mm. For simple parts, the machine can be used as a double four-spindle machine, reducing cycle times in half. The ...

We see a lot of CNC Machines here on Hackaday but not too many of them are lathe-based ... was not related to the CNC conversion. The 3″ chuck was replaced with a 5″.