Ornamental turning : a work of practical instruction in the above art (1880)
Evans, J. H. (John Henry), lathe-maker · London : J.H. Evans · leaf 188
to be the opposite in character, and requires the movements reversed; the slide-rest still set in the same position, the radius of the tool identical, and for each successive cut the eccentricity of the ring is reduced 70, the tool remaining in the same position throughout. This shows clearly that… … ring is cut. By these two figures we have clearly defined the two opposite movements, namely, the reduction of the radius of the tool only, in the first instance, which produces a series of parallel ellipses terminating in a straight line, and the decrease in the proportion of the figure at the…
Turning (Lathe work)
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