The watchmakers' lathe, its use and abuse; a story of the lathe in its various forms, past and present, its construction and proper uses (1903)
Goodrich, Ward L. [from old catalog] · Chicago, Hazlitt & Walker · leaf 122
n materially under suchconditions, and if it is sharpened on top the cutting edgewill be lowered, making elevation necessary to reach theline of centers. The man with few tools prefers to alter theangle at the working point by tilting his tool to accommodateit to the varying qualities of metal,… … Fig. 101. Hopkins Slide Rest. metals and to present those tools to the work at known an-gles by properly forming the cutting edge and keeping theshank of the tools always horizontal. Every experiencedlathe hand will admit the justice of the latter proposition andthen resort to tilting the tool when…
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